Abstract: Characterization is an important topic in the study of the basic theory of children's literature,which is particularly urgent and important under the background of weak character shaping in the original children's literature in our country.The special literary attributes and basic functions of children's literature determine that their characters are the key spiritual power to summon and lead children readers to carry out the aesthetic experience.A large number of classical children's literature presents such a literary law.Summing up the changes and development of the characters in children's literature in China in the past hundred years,it is found that the crucial aesthetic problem in image shaping still lies in solving the problem of "child-orientation" in the adult social concept.

Key words: classical children's literature, character image, children-orientation, cognitive poetics