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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 20 July 2026
- ISBN 9781032943039
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 Illustrations, black & white; 2 Line drawings, black & white; 5 Tables, black & white 700
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Short description:
Cultural Perspectives on Sweets in Children’s Literature and Media creates a kaleidoscope of the various functions of sweets and their significance for children’s culture, thus providing an overview of the diversity of the subject.
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Our language is full of 'sweet' terms to describe situations (‘a bittersweet moment’), things (‘popcorn brain’), behaviour (‘to have a sweet tooth’), or even loved ones (‘sweety’, ‘sweetheart’, ‘honey’) that are originally not linked to food. What seems to be common to almost all cultures, is reflected in the fact that we humans are born with a taste for sweets, and that sweets have shaped our cultures and our language. This has also been reflected in children's literature and media. This is the starting point for this invaluable collection of essays, which deals specifically with sweets and the spectrum of hedonistic and regulated indulgence in different cultures and media for children. The contributions analyse classics of children’s literature, but also more recent texts and other media such as magazines, films, television programmes and computer games. Cultural Perspectives on Sweets in Children’s Literature and Media creates a kaleidoscope of the various functions of sweets and their significance for children’s culture, thus providing an overview of the diversity of the subject.
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Notes on Contributors
Sweets in Children’s Literature and Media: A Short Introduction into a Sweet and Delicious Topic
CORINA LÖWE AND SABINE PLANKA
PART I
Sweets as an Expression of Culture and Cultural Attitudes as well as National Cuisines
1 Sugar – A Substance Between Health, Temptation, and Moral in German Dolls’ and Children’s Cookbooks from the 19th to 21st Century
SABINE PLANKA
2 ‘A Cookie Is a Sometime Food’. Cookie Monster and the Politics of Children’s Health on Sesame Street ABBY WHITAKER
3 Sugar Magic: Australian Children’s Literature, Sweets, and National Identity
PAUL VENZO
4 ‘We Do All This to Celebrate the Beauty of Life and Death Rather than Mourn It’: Sugary Skulls, Pan de Muerto, and the Context of Mexican Dia de Muertos in Children’s Books
SABINE PLANKA
5 Sweet Treats and Cultural Commentary in Studio Ghibli’s Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) and Spirited Away (2001)
NERMIN KARADEMIR
PART II
Sweets as Key Moments for the Development of Characters and Interpersonal Relationships in Children’s Media
6 Swallowed Tears and Ice Cream: Sweets and the Lonely Child in East German Children’s Literature
CORINA LÖWE
7 The Emancipatory Milkshake: Sweets in a Swedish Girls’ Magazine
KRISTINA ÖHMAN
8 “Blond, Pink, and Porky”: The Dehumanisation of
Fat Characters Eating Sweets in British 20th-Century Children’s Book Classics
ÅSA WARNQVIST AND MIA ÖSTERLUND
PART III
Sweets in Children’s Literature and Media as Symbols and Metaphors
9 Tailor-Made Pastries in La signorina Euforbia: Food Pedagogy in Italian Pre-Teens’ Literature
SIMONA DI MARTINO
10 The Sweet Temptations of Fairy Tales: Exploring the Symbolic Role of Sweets
ARTEMIS PAPAILIA
11 “These Creatures Are Not Just Delightful, They’re Delicious”: The Cultural Meaning of the Trolls as Sweets in DreamWorks’ Trolls (2016)
PHILIP VAN DER MERWE
12 To Eat and/or Be Eaten: A Yummy Guide with Zombies Inside
COREY WHITLEY, DANIEL IHRMARK, AND JOHAN NILSSON
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