The author of the article analyses Grażyna Bąkiewicz’s Jadwiga kontra Jagiełło, a historical novel for children about the life and time of Polish Queen Jadwiga (1374-1399). The novel is the first such publication in over 50 years; the last one being Jadwiga i Jagienka by Czesława Niemyska--Rączaszkowa). The article shows the tensions between biographical events, history, and historical tidings (historical news); and well as the syncretic form of the novel (narrative structure; comic book elements; the element of a dream to go back in time that may symbolically soon come true during a multimedia history lesson).
The subject of this article is modern guides for good manners for children, considered in the context of the idea of “great fun” of prof. Jerzy Cieślikowski. This is an attempt to answer a question, wheter these publications, aimed mainly at the implementation of the child-care section, also feature a plaything element? By oscillating between postpedagogy and new didacticism, they satisfy the aesthetic needs of small audiences?
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