Los cuentos infantiles: palabras pequeñas y grandes mundos con capacidad de formación y transformación

Abstract

This study aimed to reflect on the capacity of children's stories to shape and transform young  children. The objects of study were The Incredible Book-Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers and The  Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water by Gemma Merino. Through a dialogue between the two stories,  the themes, narrative and aesthetic resources, and implicit values of each story were addressed.  The research is based on Gianni Rodari's "Grammar of Fantasy" theory, which promotes the use  of stories to stimulate children's creativity and imagination, presenting them as a tool to enhance  divergent thinking. A dialogue with Piaget and Vygotsky was conducted to understand the  importance of stories in childhood and their capacity as a transformative tool. The methodology utilized the aforementioned theory, in addition to a dialogue between the two stories, all of which  were qualitative in nature to obtain the results and subsequent conclusions of the research.