Add to ORKG"<i>Many children learn from a very young age about the importance of always telling the truth. They also learn that telling lies is necessary if they are to survive in a world that paradoxically values the truth but practises deception. Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction demonstrates how this paradox is played out in texts for children and young adults, how secrets and lies may be a necessary means for survival and adaptation, and how mendacity may have its virtues. Kerry Mallan examines a wide selection of international texts, spanning several decades, including picture books, novels, and films. By drawing on diverse fields of scholarship, Mallan makes important connections between children's literature, philosophical and moral complexi...
Historically children’s literature has always been used as a teaching tool with children, but today ...
This article analyses the narrative techniques employed by children's literature to construct the se...
Readers often have passionate responses (both positive and negative) to books that first manipulate ...
"Many children learn from a very young age about the importance of always telling the truth. They al...
The telling of lies is significant in fiction written for children, and is often (though not in all ...
The theme of this paper is the understanding and implementation of the phenomenon of lying in childr...
This chapter’s interest in fiction’s relationship to truth, lies, and secrecy is not so much a matte...
This chapter’s interest in fiction’s relationship to truth, lies, and secrecy is not so much a matte...
Mallan, Kerry: Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-1...
Children's lying behaviour to conceal personal transgressions emerges in the preschool years (Talwar...
I wrote and created With Wings and Words, a children’s picture book based off of interview material ...
The importance of stories in educating the moral imagination of the child provides the context for t...
Recent research shows that most adults admit they lie to children. We also know that children learn ...
This paper argues that, regardless of the type of lies involved, lying to children is not morally ju...
It is a common intuition that we can learn something of moral importance from literature, and one of...
Historically children’s literature has always been used as a teaching tool with children, but today ...
This article analyses the narrative techniques employed by children's literature to construct the se...
Readers often have passionate responses (both positive and negative) to books that first manipulate ...
"Many children learn from a very young age about the importance of always telling the truth. They al...
The telling of lies is significant in fiction written for children, and is often (though not in all ...
The theme of this paper is the understanding and implementation of the phenomenon of lying in childr...
This chapter’s interest in fiction’s relationship to truth, lies, and secrecy is not so much a matte...
This chapter’s interest in fiction’s relationship to truth, lies, and secrecy is not so much a matte...
Mallan, Kerry: Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-1...
Children's lying behaviour to conceal personal transgressions emerges in the preschool years (Talwar...
I wrote and created With Wings and Words, a children’s picture book based off of interview material ...
The importance of stories in educating the moral imagination of the child provides the context for t...
Recent research shows that most adults admit they lie to children. We also know that children learn ...
This paper argues that, regardless of the type of lies involved, lying to children is not morally ju...
It is a common intuition that we can learn something of moral importance from literature, and one of...
Historically children’s literature has always been used as a teaching tool with children, but today ...
This article analyses the narrative techniques employed by children's literature to construct the se...
Readers often have passionate responses (both positive and negative) to books that first manipulate ...