Ethics in British Children's Literature

Lisa Sainsbury is Director of the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, University of Roehampton, UK.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Unexamined Life in The Inferno1.The Sin of Indifference (Part I): Beyond Naughty 2. The Sin of Indifference (Part II): Discovering Evil3. Moral Ammunition: Growing Out of Dissatisfaction through Ethical Life 4. Midnight Philosophy and Environmental Ethics5. The Making of Monsters: Duty, Gender and the Rightness of Wrong6. The Greatness of Apple Seeds: Ethical Relationships in Miniature LiteratureConclusion: Through the Library...Towards a Life ExaminedReferences

Lisa Sainsbury has produced a stimulating and challenging text which analyses ethics and morality as central precepts of children's literature extant in contemporary writing. This book is essential to the student of children's literature