One of the key phrases associated with children's travel is the proverb, “Let a cute child travel”. There is also an idiom in English-speaking countries, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. This means that parents should not spoil their children, but should watch over them with an open mind. How much distance/time does a child need to travel in order to have the experiences necessary for growth? In this paper, To focus on the ‘distance of adventure’ and ‘how adventure begins’ in adventure fairy tales, and consider their role and the influence that juvenile literature itself has on children. The children's literary works and contents were limited to adventure fairy tales for schoolchildren targeted to adolescents in Japan from the 1960s to the present, and their contents were chosen to be gender-neutral in terms of readers. Also included is well-known domestic and foreign children's literary works characterized by ‘adventure distance’. Many creative works include stories that dynamically depict children's solo journeys and the difficulties they face along the way. Among them, adventure novels written for elementary school children and boys are called juvenile literature, and the term “juvenile” began to be used in Japan around the 1970s. The childhood journey depicted in juvenile fiction is not necessarily conducive to children's physical and mental development, and there is concern that there may be a significant gap between what the author wants to convey to the reader through the story and what the reader actually receives from reading the story. Juvenile fiction contains a mixture of positive content that gives children dreams and hopes, and tense content that makes them anxious about the future. However, we may be able to find future possibilities in the juvenile fiction created by human beings, so that children, who will be responsible for the next generation, and we ourselves, who create the present, can live without losing hope every day.37 ■■■■38
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