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Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral
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by Vigen Guroian

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As the popularity of William Bennett's Book of Virtues attests, parents are turning more and more to children's literature to help instill values in their kids. Now, in this elegantly written and passionate book, Vigen Guroian provides the perfect complement to books such as Bennett's, offering parents and teachers a much-needed roadmap to some of our finest children's stories.
Guroian illuminates the complex ways in which fairy tales and fantasies educate the moral imagination from earliest childhood. Examining a wide range of stories--from "Pinocchio" and "The Little Mermaid" to "Charlotte's Web," "The Velveteen Rabbit," "The Wind in the Willows," and the "Chronicles of Narnia"--he argues that these tales capture the meaning of morality through vivid depictions of the struggle between good and evil, in which characters must make difficult choices between right and wrong, or heroes and villains contest the very fate of imaginary worlds. Character and the virtues are depicted compellingly in these stories; the virtues glimmer as if in a looking glass, and wickedness and deception are unmasked of their pretensions to goodness and truth. We are made to face the unvarnished truth about ourselves, and what kind of people we want to be.
Throughout, Guroian highlights the classical moral virtues such as courage, goodness, and honesty, especially as they are understood in traditional Christianity. At the same time, he so persuasively evokes the enduring charm of these familiar works that many readers will be inspired to reread their favorites and explore those they may have missed.

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The American writer Flannery O'Connor spoke a simple but profound truth when she said that "a story is a way to say that can't be said any other way....

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  • Title Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
  • Author Vigen Guroian
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date January 14, 2002
  • ISBN 9780195152647 / 0195152646
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.48 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 1.22 cm)
  • Reading level 1260
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Children - Books and reading, Children's literature - Moral and ethical
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97045885
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.892

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Vigen Guroian is Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia.

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