Ethics and Children''s Literature.

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I The Dilemma of Didacticism: Attempts to Shape Children as Moral Beings; 1 Transmitting Ethics through Books of Golden Deeds for Children; 2 Sermonizing in New York: The Children's Magazines of Mary Mapes Dodge and José Martí; 3 Talking to Children about Race: Children's Literature in a Segregated Era, 1930-1945; Part II Ethical Themes in Classic and Contemporary Texts; 4 Discernment and the Moral Life in Prince Caspian and the Later Narnia Chronicles.

5 Making a Difference: Ethical Recognition through Otherness in Madeleine L'Engle's Fiction6 A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner; 7 Virtuous Transgressors, Not Moral Saints: Protagonists in Contemporary Children's Literature ; 8 Model Children, Little Rebels, and Moral Transgressors: Virtuous Childhood Images in Taiwanese Juvenile Fiction in the 1960s; Part III Ethical Criticism of Children's Literature; 9 The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism in Picture Books; 10 Lewis, Tolkien, and the Ethics of Imaginary Wars.

11 Heeding Rousseau's Advice: Some Ethical Reservations about Addressing Prejudice through Children's Literature Part IV Ethical Responses to Children's Literature: Identification, Recognition, Adaptation, Conversation; 12 The Ethics of Reading Narrative Voice: An Anti-Bakhtinian View; 13 Prizing Social Justice: The Jane Addams Children's Book Award; 14 Katniss Everdeen's Emerging Moral Consciousness in The Hunger Games; 15 Using Children's Literature as a Spark for Ethical Discussion: Stories that Deal with Death; Index.

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children's literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. Even as children's literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

English.

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