Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015)

In the seventh issue of "Children's reading," we continue to publish the materials of the international conference "Children's literature as a territory of conflict: texts, persons, institutions", which took place in the IRLI in June 2014. They formed the basis of the "Research" section. Heroes-orphans in children's literature, reflecting the social crisis of the beginning and end of the Soviet era (O. Bukhina, A. Lana), heroes-cannibals in the books of K. Collodi, S. Marshak, K. Chukovsky, A. Tolstoy and other famous authors, reflecting the adult fears of authors and readers (V. Vyugin), stories about the death of a child in the moralizing literature of the 18th century. (I. Sergienko), addressees of conflict situations derived in "Deniski's stories" by V. Dragunsky (O. Mikhailov), conflict situations in stories as a way to attract adolescents to the Orthodox Church (V. Zubareva) - this is a wide range of problems considered by the authors of publications. In the "Archive" section, we continue to publish little-known or forgotten texts related to the study of children's literature, interesting as examples of literary criticism and literary criticism of their time.