Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Iconic Children’s Stories About Lying
	An Etiquette of Lying
	Notes
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
			Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
			Cinder
	Children’s Emotional Development, Lying, and Children’s Literature
		Games and Lying
			The Moves Make the Man
			Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
	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
	Notes
Conclusion
	Notes
Works Cited
Index