Spirituality has been discussed as an important topic in many other settings as well as in
medical ones. It has also been considered to possibly emerge when people are under critical
circumstances such as death, dying, and bereavement.
Therefore, spirituality can be said to be depicted in death-related literature for children.
There are, however, a limited number of researches on death in childrenʼs literature. Furthermore,
few studies have been published on spirituality in death-related childrenʼs literature.
This article presents a brief overview of the trends in academic researches on death-related
English literature for children and then introduces Dr. Corrʼs research on spirituality in such
childrenʼs literature published in 2004 as an indicator for further research on spirituality in
English childrenʼs literature.
It is hoped that his research on spirituality in death-related childrenʼs literature will be a
springboard for similar researches on Japanese childrenʼs literature and a comparative study
between English childrenʼs literature and Japanese one in the spiritual setting
