title: Sitecore MVC + Children
body: <p>How do I get a list of the children for a current page using a Model?</p>
  
  <p>I tried to create a ViewModel for a landing page that had a field of type List but kept getting error for casting from Sitecore.Data.Items.Item to MyModel.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Updated:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am able to get to get it working with a View Rendering, but wanting to create a Model so i can have strongly type object.  Here is an example code of what i'm trying to do:</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to create a landing page that will return all child items that of type Article.  I will probably need to do some filtering/shorting so thinking creating a Model to work with would be helpful here.</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class Article
  {
      public string Title { get; set; }
      public string ShortSummary { get; set; }
  
      public DateTime PublishDate { get; set; }
  
      public Speech(Item item)
      {
          this.Title = item["Title"];
          this.ShortSummary = item["Short Summary"];
          this.PublishDate = item["Publish Date"];
      }
  }
  
  public class NewsLandingViewModel : IRenderingModel
  {
      public string Title { get; set; }
      public string ShortSummary { get; set; }
  
      public List&lt;Article&gt; Articles {get; set;}
  
      public void Initialize(Rendering rendering)
      {
          var dataSourceItem = rendering.Item;
  
          this.Title = dataSourceItem["Title"];
          this.ShortSummary = dataSourceItem["Short Summary"];
  
          foreach (Item child in dataSourceItem.Children)
          {
              this.Articles.Add(new Article(child));
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>