Children's literature is utterly
imaginative but represents ideas in a very simple way. It is not entirely
bounded by adults’ rules of thinking, it toys with them, and perhaps, that is
why it is more complex.
In the novel Phantom Tollbooth,
Milo says: “[t]he least they could have done was to send a highway with it, for
it's terribly impractical without one.”
If Milo complains that the
tollbooth is “impractical” without a highway, it is just to involve our logic
into the story, otherwise, he doesn’t need a highway as he drives in his
imagination. Does our inability to think like
children, make children's literature more complex?