Description: Further DetailsTitle: Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureCondition: NewSubtitle: Telling It SlantEAN: 9781032532332ISBN: 9781032532332Publisher: RoutledgeFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/20/2023Description: Even though we instruct our children not to lie, the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children’s development—socially, cognitively, emotionally, morally. Lying can sometimes be more compassionate than telling the truth, even more ethical. Reading specific children’s books can instruct child readers how to be guided by an etiquette of lying, to know when to tell the truth and when to lie. Equally important, these stories can help prevent them from being prey to those liars who are intent on taking advantage of them. Becoming a critical reader requires that one learn how to lie judiciously as well as to see through others’ lies. When humans first began to speak, we began to lie. When we began to lie, we started telling stories. This is the paradox, that in order to tell truthful stories, we must be good liars. Novels about child-artists showcased here illustrate how the protagonist embraces this paradox, accepting the stigma that a writer is a liar who tells the truth. Emily Dickinson’s phrase “tell it slant” best expresses the vision of how writers for children and young adults negotiate the conundrum of both protecting child readers and teaching them to protect themselves. This volume explores the pervasiveness of lying as well as the necessity for lying in our society; the origins of lying as connected to language acquisition; the realization that storytelling is both lying and truthtelling; and the negotiations child-artists must process in order to grasp the paradox that to become storytellers they must become expert liars and lie-detectors.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 630gAuthor: Anita TarrGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Children's Literature and CultureRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adu
Title: Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adu
Subtitle: Telling It Slant
EAN: 9781032532332
ISBN: 9781032532332
Release Date: 12/20/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 229mm
Item Weight: 630g
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Book Title: Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult Literature : Telling It Slant
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
Topic: General
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Anita Tarr
Book Series: Children's and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
