Until his retirement in 2015, Vigen Guroian was Professor of Religious Studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. He is now a Permanent Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Senior Fellow at the Center on Law and Religion at Emory University, Distinguished Fellow of the John Jay Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. He also is on the faculty of Memoria College online and is the author of ten books including The Orthodox Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World.

We need this book because we need children's books, but we have forgotten how to read them. Guroian writes for humbled giants who want to understand how stories develop the virtues and nurture the souls of children—and their parents

• AcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction 1 Awakening the Moral Imagination2 On Becoming a Real Human Child: Pinocchio3 Love and Immortality in The Velveteen Rabbit and The Little Mermaid4 Friends and Mentors in The Wind in the Willows, Charlottes Web, and Bambi5 Evil and Redemption in The Snow Queen and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe6 Heroines of Faith and Courage: Princess Irene in The Princess and the Goblin and Lucy in Prince Caspian7 The Triumph of Beauty in The Nightingale and The Ugly Duckling8 The Goodness of Goodness: The Grimms' Cinderella and John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River9 Obedience and the Path to Perfection in George MacDonald's The Wise Woman: A Double Story Conclusion: A Bibliographical EssayNotesIndex

Until his retirement in 2015, Vigen Guroian was Professor of Religious Studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. He is now a Permanent Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Senior Fellow at the Center on Law and Religion at Emory University, Distinguished Fellow of the John Jay Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. He also is on the faculty of Memoria College online and is the author of ten books including The Orthodox Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World.

We need this book because we need children's books, but we have forgotten how to read them. Guroian writes for humbled giants who want to understand how stories develop the virtues and nurture the souls of children—and their parents

• AcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction 1 Awakening the Moral Imagination2 On Becoming a Real Human Child: Pinocchio3 Love and Immortality in The Velveteen Rabbit and The Little Mermaid4 Friends and Mentors in The Wind in the Willows, Charlottes Web, and Bambi5 Evil and Redemption in The Snow Queen and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe6 Heroines of Faith and Courage: Princess Irene in The Princess and the Goblin and Lucy in Prince Caspian7 The Triumph of Beauty in The Nightingale and The Ugly Duckling8 The Goodness of Goodness: The Grimms' Cinderella and John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River9 Obedience and the Path to Perfection in George MacDonald's The Wise Woman: A Double Story Conclusion: A Bibliographical EssayNotesIndex