Introduction Part I The Dilemma of Didacticism: Attempts to Shape Children as Moral Beings 1 Transmitting Ethics through Books of Golden Deeds for Children Claudia Nelson 2 Sermonizing in New York: The Children's Magazines of Mary Mapes Dodge and Jose Marti Emma Adelaida Otheguy 3 Talking to Children about Race: Children's Literature in a Segregated Era, 1930-1945 Moira Hinderer Part II Ethical Themes in Classic and Contemporary Texts 4 Discernment and the Moral Life in Prince Caspian and the Later Narnia Chronicles Emanuelle Burton 5 Making a Difference: Ethical Recognition through Otherness in Madelein L'Engle's Fiction Mary Jeanette Moran 6 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 7 Virtuous Transgressors, Not Moral Saints: Protagonists in Contemporary Children's Literature Jani L. Barker 8 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 9 The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism in Picture Books Lisa Rowe Fraustino 10 Lewis, Tolkien, and the Ethics of Imaginary Wars Suzanne Rahn 11 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 12 The Ethics of Reading Narrative Voice: An Anti-Bakhtinian View Leona W. Fisher 13 Prizing Social Justice: The Jane Addams Children's Book Award Ramona Caponegro 14 Katniss Everdeen's Emerging Moral Consciousness in The Hunger Games Martha Rainbolt 15 Using Children's Literature as a Spark for Ethical Discussion: Stories that Deal with Death Sara Goering.