Philosophy in Children's Literature

Name: Philosophy in Children's Literature
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ISBN: 9780739184424

ISBN-10: 0739184423

ISBN-13: 9780739184424

Edition: 2011

Authors: Peter Costello

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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 sections â€the 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…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.45" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction


Picture Books



Heidegger, Winnicott, and The Velveteen Rabbit: Anxiety, Toys, and the Drama of Metaphysics




Slave Morality in The Rainbow Fish




Absolutely Positively Feeling that Way and More: Paradoxes of Fiction and Judith Viorst's Alexander Stories




Are You My Mother? Finding the Self in (M)others




Horton Hears Badiou!: Ethics and an Understanding of Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!




Mapping Chris Van Allsburg's The Mysteries of 101 Harris Burdick




Silverstein's Missing Pieces: Lessons in Love and Incompleteness




Is Arthur's Anger Reasonable?




Gift-Giving, Waiting, and Walking: The (Non-)Reciprocal, (Im-)Possible Apprenticeship of Frog and Toad



Chapter Books



Word Play, Language-Games, and Unfair Labels in Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest




The Things That Are Not among the Things There Are to Do: Harriet the Spy and Maurice Blanchot's Passivity




Intelligence and Utopia in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH




The Cricket in Times Square: Crickets, Compassion, and the Good Life




Pollyanna, Moral Sainthood, and Childhood Ideals



Multiple Avenues of Criticism



The Giving Tree and Environmental Philosophy: Listening to Deep Ecology, Feminism, and Trees




The Giving Tree, Women, and the Great Society




King of the Wild Things: Children and the Passionate Attachments of the Anthropological Machine




Lovingly Impolite



Index


About the Authors