Title: Ethics and children's literature /
Authors: Mills, Claudia,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Children's literature Moral and ethical aspects; Children Books and reading; Moral education; Virtues in literature.; Social values in literature.; Social justice in literature.; Literature and morals.; Children's literature History and criticism
Abstract: "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"--
Contents: Part I. The Dilemma of Didacticism: Attempts to Shape Children as Moral Beings -- Transmitting Ethics through Books of Golden Deeds for Children / Claudia Nelson -- Sermonizing in New York: The Children's Magazines of Mary Mapes Dodge and José Martí Emma Otheguy -- Talking to Children about Race: Children's Literature in a Segregated Era, 1930-1945 / Moira Hinderer -- Part II. Ethical Themes and Theories in Classic and Contemporary Texts -- Moral Discernment in the Chronicles of Narnia / Emmanuelle Burton -- Ethical Recognition across Difference in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet / Mary Jeanette Moran -- A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner / Niall Nance-Carroll -- Virtuous Transgressors, Not Moral Saints: Child Characters in Contemporary Children's Literature / Jani L. Barker -- Model Children, Little Rebels, and Moral Transgressors: Virtuous Childhood Images in Taiwanese Juvenile Fiction in the 1960s / Andrea Mei-Ying Wu -- Part III. Ethical Criticism of Children's Literature -- The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism in Children's Literature / Lisa Fraustino -- The Lewis-Tolkien Tradition and the Ethics of Imaginary Wars / Suzanne Rahn -- Heeding Rousseau's Advice: Some Ethical Reservations about Addressing Prejudice through Children's Literature / Claudia Mills -- Part IV. Ethical Responses to Children's Literature: Identification, Recognition, Adaptation, Conversation -- The Ethics of Reading Narrative Voice / Leona Fisher -- Prizing Social Justice: The Jane Addams Children's Book Award and Its Recipients in the Past Decade / Ramona Caponegro -- The Moral Development of Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games / Martha Rainbolt -- Ethics and Death: Using Children's Literature as a Spark for Philosophical Discussion / Sara Goering.