Comparative analysis of childrenʼs literature - Dečki (Boys) and Fantje iz gline (Clay Boys)

Social changes influence children’s literature with problem-oriented topics, which is an umbrella term for motifs such as refugees, illness, difference, poverty, death, gender, war, etc. The search for identity is a literary universality in children’s literature. In contemporary times, the theme of searching for (gender) identity in picturebooks is written mostly from an adult’s and less from a child’s perspective. The main criterion for this type of literature is crosswriting (B. Kummerling Meibauer) or infantile text and adult contexts (L. Seifert) but not for all of them