The Borders of Empathy in Childrens Fiction [Hardcover]

This volume examines how texts addressed to children are meant to assist socioemotional education and whether we put forward adultist assumptions around such conceptualisations of the emotional.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1        The Uses of Picturebooks for Socioemotional Education

2        Stories about Death and Adult Anxieties

3        Necropolitics in the Picturebooks by Armin Greder

4        Testimonies of Border Crossing 

5        Memory and Dictatorship in Childrens Fiction

6        The Happy Objectification of Frida Kahlo

7        Climate Crisis, Water Wars, and Post-Anthropocentric Narratives

8        Entanglements of Social Marginalisation and Reading Promotion

9        The Arts of Noticing Childrens Writing

Final Thoughts

Index