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Philosophy in Children's Literature
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This book allows philosophers, literary theorists, and education specialists to come together to offer a series of readings on works of children's literature. Each of their readings is focused on pairing a particular, popular picture book or a chapter book with philosophical texts or themes.
The book has three sectionsâthe first, on picturebooks; the second, on chapter books; and the third, on two sets of paired readings of two very popular picturebooks. By means of its three sections, the book sets forth as its goal to show how philosophy can be helpful in reappraising books aimed at children from early childhood on. Particularly in the third section, the book emphasizes how philosophy can help to multiply the type of interpretative stances that are possible when readers listen again to what they thought they knew so well.
The kinds of questions this book raises are the following: How are children's books already anticipating or articulating philosophical problems and discussions? How does children's literature work by means of philosophical puzzles or language games? What do children's books reveal about the existential situation the child reader faces?
In posing and answering these kinds of questions, the readings within the book thus intersect with recent, developing scholarship in children's literature studies as well as in the psychology and philosophy of childhood.
The book has three sectionsâthe first, on picturebooks; the second, on chapter books; and the third, on two sets of paired readings of two very popular picturebooks. By means of its three sections, the book sets forth as its goal to show how philosophy can be helpful in reappraising books aimed at children from early childhood on. Particularly in the third section, the book emphasizes how philosophy can help to multiply the type of interpretative stances that are possible when readers listen again to what they thought they knew so well.
The kinds of questions this book raises are the following: How are children's books already anticipating or articulating philosophical problems and discussions? How does children's literature work by means of philosophical puzzles or language games? What do children's books reveal about the existential situation the child reader faces?
In posing and answering these kinds of questions, the readings within the book thus intersect with recent, developing scholarship in children's literature studies as well as in the psychology and philosophy of childhood.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Heidegger, Winnicott, and The Velveteen Rabbit
- Chapter 2: Slave Morality in The Rainbow Fish
- Chapter 3: Absolutely Positively Feeling that Way and More
- Chapter 4: Are You My Mother? Finding the Self in (M)others
- Chapter 5: Horton Hears Badiou!: Ethics and an Understanding of Dr. Seussâs Horton Hears a Who!
- Chapter 6: Mapping Chris Van Allsburgâs The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
- Chapter 7: Silversteinâs Missing Pieces
- Chapter 8: Is Arthurâs Anger Reasonable?
- Chapter 9: Gift-Giving, Waiting, and Walking
- Chapter 10: Word Play, Language-Games, and Unfair Labels in Beverly Clearyâs Ramona the Pest
- Chapter 11: The Things That Are Not among the Things There Are to Do
- Chapter 12: Intelligence and Utopia in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- Chapter 13: The Cricket in Times Square
- Chapter 14: Pollyanna, Moral Sainthood, and Childhood Ideals
- Chapter 15: The Giving Tree and Environmental Philosophy
- Chapter 16: The Giving Tree, Women, and the Great Society
- Chapter 17: King of the Wild Things
- Chapter 18: Lovingly Impolite
- About the Authors