Reflections on children's literature in times of COVID-19 (or the children’s books comes to the rescue)

Abstract

This paper wants to reflect on the role of children's literature in times of COVID-19. For this, some definitions of this genre are retaken and then the characteristics, uses and functionalities of the juvenile literature in the first year of this pandemic are exposed, the most important for this article is what is happening in Argentina. Through the review of different materials produced and disseminated in different Latin American countries and the analysis of a set of materials produced by the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and the Family (SENAF) of the Ministry of Social Development of the Argentine Republic, with the support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), it wants to show how the children’s literature takes an important place in this extraordinary phenomenon and its consequences.