The Author starts from considerations focused on theoretical and literary issues, particularly on the literary heroes category as well as heroes in books for children and youth and the influence thereof on readers. Then she introduces selected results of empirical research which provides answers to main research questions: how heroes in children’s and youth prose influence on teenager readers? She presents results of the research that she has been carrying out for several years on the school perception of fairytales as well as results of the diagnostic survey of 2019. The latter consisted in gathering written reminiscence of future Polish teachers about the impact of their heroes from children’s and youth books on them when they were teenagers. The gathered empirical material is rich and provides a possibility to give an answer to main research questions. It shall also constitute a basis for reflections on a role of their heroes from children’s and youth books or tasks of a Polish teacher.
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