Christian children’s literature and humour

Abstract

While I am presenting specific authors and, what is more, texts in my study, basically I raise theoretical questions and try to answer them. What is Christian literature? What is Christian children’s literature? Does or can didacticism have a place in (Christian) children’s literature? Does humour have a reason for existing in Christian literature? After the clarification of the notions and fundamental questions I have not attempted to categorize or group the works considered appropriate. Most of all, because there are not so many genres within the topic – especially taking into consideration the Hungarian authors – and the number of works is proportionally not significant to be relevant. I do not consider the raising of the issue to be groundless though,  which is mainly due to the observations of the past decades. While the start was specifically difficult – the literary values had only some „transparency” for a long time from behind the didactic texts –, the present is more than promising. It seems as if the „development” of Christian children’s literature  went side by side, together with the advancement of children’s literature.