Question: Who is credited with presiding over the transition of childrens literature from parables to works that appealed to imagination and emotion?
Context: Religious symbolism provides an additional means to communicate the underlying message of a religion via symbols, apart from communication by words.  Jesus in Mathew 13:13 says, "The reason I use parables in talking to them is that they look, but do not see, and they listen, but do not hear or understand."  Symbolism, like parables, clarifies a message to make its meaning more accessible to the mind.  It is the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork, events, or natural phenomena, by a religion.  Religions view religious texts, rituals, and works of art as symbols of compelling ideas or ideals. Kate Gordon Moore (February 18, 1878 – October 4, 1963) was an American psychologist whose work focused on various aspects within cognitive psychology, and is noted for her work with color vision and perception, as well as aesthetics, memory, imagination, emotion, developmental tests for children, and attention span.  Gordon's early work focused on color vision and how this interacted with memory.  Her work shifted mid-career and then she started to research within the realm of education.  Specifically, she published work that addresses women's education with regards to the notion that women must be educated differently than man.  Her focus of research shifted once more later on in life and started to keen in on imagination and how it related to her earlier works of memory and emotion. Ursula Nordstrom (February 2, 1910 - October 11, 1988) was publisher and editor-in-chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row from 1940 to 1973.  She is credited with presiding over a transformation in children's literature in which morality tales written for adult approval gave way to works that instead appealed to children's imaginations and emotions. Electoralism is a term first used by Terry Karl, professor of political science at Stanford University, to describe a "half-way" transition from authoritarian rule toward democratic rule.  As a topic in the dominant party system political science literature, electoralism describes a situation where the transition out of hard-authoritarian rule is initiated and managed by the incumbent regime.  However, due to the dominant position of the incumbent regime throughout the transition process, the transition fails to attain the institutional qualities of liberal democracy.  Other terms, such as guided transition or managed transition have been used to describe this process. Parables and Paradoxes (Parabeln und Paradoxe) is a bilingual edition of selected writings by Franz Kafka edited by Nahum N. Glatzer (Schocken Books, 1961).  In this volume of collected pieces, Kafka re-examines and rewrites some basic mythical tales of Ancient Israel, Hellas, the Far East, and the West, as well as creations of his own imagination. A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles.  It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters.  A parable is a type of analogy. Thathamathu Nanupilla Gopakumaran Nair (born 27 June 1944), popularly known as Dr. Ambalapuzha Gopakumar (ഡോ. അമ്പലപ്പുഴ ഗോപകുമാർ) is a Malayalam poet, historian, orator and writer from Kerala, India.  He is the recipient of Kerala State Institute of Childrens literature Award, 2012.  Gopakumar is also the author of 'History of Ambalapuzha Sree Krishna Temple' which describes the origin and history of Amabalapuzha and the famous Sreekrishna Temple.  He is widely regarded as an authority on the history of Chemapakassery, the erstwhile name of Ambalapuzha. The Margaret Mahy Award, officially the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award, is a New Zealand literary prize presented to a person who has made a significant contribution to children's literature, publishing or literacy.  Presented annually since 1991 by the Storylines Childrens Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand, the award is named in honour of its first recipient, Margaret Mahy. Miles Regis (born November 28, 1967), is a Los Angeles-based, Trinidadian multimedia artist whose work taps into the emotion and experiences of exotic cultures around the world and presents them in ways that are relevant to today’s modernized societies.  Miles Regis combines abstraction with figurative work; obscure references with in-your-face writings; symbolic narrative with Trinidadian splashes of color.  The artist adds to this drip painting and collage work.  His media includes oil, acrylic, charcoal, latex paint and occasional newspaper.  He works on canvasses already colored, and on some painted with bold colors; his finished compositions take these as their start.  Over the years, the USC graduate has honed a technique that incorporates drip painting and collage work that is both unique and striking.  With a style reminiscent of many of history’s great master painters, Miles' imagination is saturated with notions, ideas, and images reflective of a world filled with conflicting interests.  His cultural duality and diverse perspectives play a large role in the humanistic consciousness he manages to present in his work.  With broad enthusiast appeal, his work has appeared in association with CNN, Intel Corporation, Art Basel Miami, Coachella Music And Art Festival, California African American Museum, Million Dollar Listing, NextAid World's Day, CCH Pounder (Avatar, The Shield), Nicolette Sheridan (Desperate Housewives), American Rag Cie, Manifest Equality, Senegal's La Musee Borindar, Adobe, Isaiah Washington (Grey's Anatomy) and several art communities around the country and throughout the world. Emotional contagion is the phenomenon of having one person's emotions and related behaviors directly trigger similar emotions and behaviors in other people.  One view developed by Elaine Hatfield et al. is that this can be done through automatic mimicry and synchronization of one's expressions, vocalizations, postures and movements with those of another person.  When people unconsciously mirror their companions' expressions of emotion, they come to feel reflections of those companions' emotions.  Emotions can be shared across individuals in many different ways both implicitly or explicitly.  For instance, conscious reasoning, analysis and imagination have all been found to contribute to the phenomenon.  Emotional contagion is important to personal relationships because it fosters emotional synchrony between individuals.  A broader definition of the phenomenon was suggested by Schoenewolf is "a process in which a person or group influences the emotions or behavior of another person or group through the conscious or unconscious induction of emotion states and behavioral attitudes".  The behaviour has been found in humans, primates and dogs.
Answer: Ursula Nordstrom