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Ethics and Children's Literature

By (author) Claudia Mills

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Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about childrenâ€™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. The essays in Part I look at various past attempts at conveying moral messages to children and interrogate their underlying assumptions. What visions of childhood were conveyed by explicit attempts to cultivate specific virtues in children? What unstated cultural assumptions were expressed by growing resistance to didacticism? How should we prepare children to respond to racism in their books and in their society? Part II takes up the ethical orientations of various classic and contemporary texts, including 'prosaic ethics' in the Hundred Acre Wood, moral discernment in Narnia, ethical recognition in the distant worlds traversed by Lâ€™Engle, and virtuous transgression in recent Anglo-American childrenâ€™s literature and in the emerging childrenâ€™s literature of 1960s Taiwan. Part IIIâ€™s essays engage in ethical criticism of arguably problematic messages about our relationship to nonhuman animals, about war, and about prejudice. The final section considers how we respond to childrenâ€™s literature with ethically focused essays exploring a range of ways in which child readers and adult authorities react to childrenâ€™s literature. Even as childrenâ€™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.

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