One of the important elements of Professor Jerzy Cieślikowski’s theory of great fun is a child-animal relation. Realistic situations of children’s play with an animal according to Cieślikowski were sources of children’s folklore and literature. The author of paper proposes a new critical animal studies (CAS) for children’s literature studies. This new perspective allows to put hypothesis about new child-animal relations in literature, new ecologic education values and – what is most important – lead us to new ethics, by overcoming taboo of animal’s death and suffering in children’s literature.Jednym z bardzo ważnych elementów teorii wielkiej zabawy autorstwa Jerzego Cieślikowskiego jest opis relacji dziecko-zwierzę. Realne sytuacje zabawy d...