Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to Second Expanded Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Awakening the Moral Imagination -- 2. On Becoming a Real Human Child: Pinocchio -- 3. Love and Immortality in The Velveteen Rabbit and "The Little Mermaid" -- 4. Friends and Mentors in The Wind in the Willows, Charlotte's Web, and Bambi -- 5. Evil and Redemption in "The Snow Queen" and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- 6. Heroines of Faith and Courage: Princess Irene in The Princess and the Goblin and Lucy in Prince Caspian
7. The Triumph of Beauty in "The Nightingale" and "The Ugly Duckling" -- 8. The Goodness of Goodness: The Grimms' "Cinderella" and John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River -- 9. Obedience and the Path to Perfection in George MacDonald's The Wise Woman: A Double Story -- Conclusion: A Bibliographical Essay -- Notes -- Index
Summary
Tending the Heart of Virtue sheds light on the power of classic children's tales to shape the moral imagination. This revised and expanded edition includes three new chapters on such stories as Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, the Grimms' Cinderella, and John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River
