Worldviews in Fiction Reading

16/05/2016 36 min
Worldviews in Fiction Reading

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Why are modern kids drawn almost exclusively to reading involving witchcraft, cannibals, vampires, ghosts, and aliens? Have the Worldviews changed since the Hardy Boys of the 1950s and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress of the 1700s? Kevin Swanson interviews Mark Hamby, Founder and President of Lamplighter Publishing on quality children's fiction. What makes for the best metaphor or allegory for our kids? How much fiction is too much fiction. At what point to our kids get lost in the metaphor? A Hive of Busy Bees

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