Taylor Culberson
Dr. Peterson
A.P. Seminar October 29th, 2015
Ethical Children’s Books
The Controversy about ethical children’s books leaves me to think that they are not inappropriate, but irrational. The argument that supports these books is that they prepare children at a young age about life. According to the authors of the books, the intent was to give children knowledge about the world and reality in general.
Personally, I believe that it is a great idea for capitalist America and other countries that resemble it. My stand point is that a child from a different economic background as America may understand what goes on around them, their country, and the world as a whole. The United States portraying principally such a talented reality actually needs these books more than its neighboring countries because more countries are faced with severe hardships, the children are typically taught at home about the world and what to expect. For example in the book Nim and the war effort ‘Nim’s grandfather was more concerned with how Nim portrayed the family. These books simply glamorize the cultural differences we’ve known and experienced for years.
There is nothing wrong with the books, whereas a lot of editors and parents my say that the ethical books are generally unnecessary and irrational because they demoralize the children’s innocence. Some people, more patriotic than others may even say they are solely based on opinion than actual evidence.
Those whom have opposed to the books’ existence, their claims are full of emotion instead of factual evidence themselves. These sort of claims towards the books are biased. No one can truly determine if information is false except the author and the reader, because both parties the offense and defense will automatically assume they are correct. As of the books robbing the children of their innocence, they were