"Cookies" from Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel

Authors

• Gareth B. Matthews, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Description

Socrates and Plato thought that we can’t really want what we know is bad for us, or do what we know we shouldn’t be doing. Euripides and Saint Augustine thought it was obvious that we often do both things. This topic in philosophy is still being argued today, and it is the central topic of Arnold Lobel’s story “Cookies,” from his collection Frog and Toad Together. Do we really eat cookies against our will? Can we do something without really wanting to do it?

Publication Date

1987

Publisher

Sundance Publishers & Distributors, Inc.

Keywords

children's literature, philosophy for children, motivation, willpower

Disciplines

Education | Philosophy

Recommended Citation

Matthews, Gareth B., ""Cookies" from Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel" (1987). Wise Owl: Talking and Thinking about Children’s Literature. 9.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_wiseowl/9