En busca del «eslabón perdido». Algunas reflexiones sobre las escrituras infantiles

From the 90s a lot of works, from different disciplines and methodologies, were based on children's writings as a principal source, with the purpose of giving a voice to children and reconstructing their history through their own words. The article reflects on manifold aspects, like the difficulties related to the conditions of production and conservation of these documents, as well as their characteristics, which are essential in any investigation which, focusing on childhood, employs children's writings as the object of study. The most important research lines developed in the last years on this historiographic trend are also indicated.