The following article explores three variants of the narrative exercise that can be given from the concept of childhood. Based on works of literature and cinema that serve as models, the approaches that make visible a narrative conception of childhood are distinguished. In the first place, the interest in recovering the first years of life as an exercise of self-perception and understanding of the life lived. Secondly, the inclination to determine the moral tone of existence when being a child is an adventure of discovery in the continuous debate between good and bad. And finally, the fantastic perception that as a natural condition makes us configure a fictitious dimension to understand the so-called real life since we are children.