) Children’s Literature Answer for question one of week two reading 1 How do our assumptions about children shape our attitudes to and ideas about children’s literature and, as a consequence, the types of books that are written published and purchased for children? Nodelman, & Reimer (2003) perceives children as weak and na??ve, people who can be easily influenced by the content and images they view in the books and who needs a considerable care. This idea has really influence the publishing of children’s books which requires simple texts, bright and colorful pictures to be more appealing to them.