Philosophy in children's literature / 
edited by Peter R. Costello. 
 - Lanham, Md. :  Lexington Books,  c2012. 
 - xxvii, 325 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter 1. Heidegger, Winnicott, and The Velveteen Rabbit -- Chapter 2. Slave Morality in The Rainbow Fish -- Chapter 3. Absolutely Positively Feeling that Way and More -- Chapter 4. Are You My Mother? Finding the Self in (M)others -- Chapter 5. Horton Hears Badiou!: Ethics and an Understanding of Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who! -- Chapter 6. Mapping Chris Van Allsburg'sThe Mysteries of Harris Burdick -- Chapter 7. Silverstein's Missing Pieces -- Chapter 8. Is Arthur's Anger Reasonable? -- Chapter 9. Gift-Giving, Waiting, and Walking -- Chapter 10. Word Play, Language-Games, and Unfair Labels in Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest -- Chapter 11. The Things That Are Not among the Things There Are to Do -- Chapter 12. Intelligence and Utopia in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH -- Chapter 13. The Cricket in Times Square -- Chapter 14. Pollyanna, Moral Sainthood, and Childhood Ideals -- Chapter 15. The Giving Tree and Environmental Philosophy -- Chapter 16. The Giving Tree, Women, and the Great Society -- Chapter 17. King of the Wild Things -- Chapter 18. Lovingly Impolite. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780739168233 (hbk.) 0739168231 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children's literature--History and criticism.<br/>Philosophy in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.89282  / PHI 2012