Lying Truthtelling and Storytelling in Children is and Young Adult Literature 1st Edition by Anita Tarr 1032532335 9781032532332

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ISBN 10: 1032532335

ISBN 13: 9781032532332

Author: Anita Tarr

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.

Lying Truthtelling and Storytelling in Children is and Young Adult Literature 1st Table of contents:

1 The Whole Truth About Lying

What Is a Lie? Part One

Animal Deception

Peter Dickinson

Homo mendax, Homo narrans

Lie-Detecting

The Witches

What Is a Lie? Part Two

Beautiful Liars: Lying and Gender

Lying and Gender in Young Adult Novels

The Girls I’ve Been

John Green

Notes

2 Children and Lying

Lying and Child Development

Children’s Cognitive Development, Lying, and Children’s Literature

Sidebar: Yes, Virginia, There Is/There Is Not a Santa Claus

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Children’s Moral Development, Lying, and Children’s Literature

Wars and Lies and Children’s Literature

Counterstories, Lying, and Children’s Literature

Children’s Emotional Development, Lying, and Children’s Literature

Games and Lying

Notes

3 Is Fiction a Pack of Lies?

Children’s Storytelling

Fiction as a Pack of Lies: Historical Perspectives

Notes

4 Liars in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Role Models for Lying in Fairy Tales

Mark Twain and Lying

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Models for Apprentice Liars: Learning from the Best/Worst

The Yearling

A Long Way from Chicago

Treasure Island

The Liars’ Club

Notes

5 Unreliable Narrators

Unreliable Narrators in Children’s and Young Adult Novels

The Book Thief

Self-Confessed Liars as Narrators

Notes from a Liar and Her Dog

The Catcher in the Rye

Liar

Similes, Metaphors, and Lying

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Embassytown

Metaphors of Storytelling

Notes

6 Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part One

The Künstlerroman: A Critical History

The Male Künstlerroman

The Female Künstlerroman

The Children’s Künstlerroman

An Etiquette of Lying: A Case Study of Two Künstlerromane

Harriet the Spy

Emily of New Moon

Notes

7 Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part Two

Mortality, Lying, and Storytelling

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Sound of Chariots

The River

Artful Liars

Brown Girl Dreaming

Summer of My German Soldier

The Golden Compass

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