The best writers, however, rely more on empathy and imagination, and approach childhood not as a set of poses and cultural signifiers, but as a hugely complicated and dynamic world unto itself – one that is contiguous with that of adults, but utterly distinct.Ĭousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (the former a writer in Toronto, the latter a Calgary-raised illustrator now living in New York City) did an astonishingly good job of inhabiting the world of childhood in their first collaboration, the 2008 graphic novel Skim. Some authors feel their way blindly back to this strange territory, filling their stories with borrowed props and slang in the hope that doing so will make it all seem real. Once you grow up, youth becomes the territory of the distant past. Other than when they are written by actual children (which happens, sometimes), novels about childhood are essentially works of historical fiction.
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