Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Journal / Book Title
Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children
Abstract
In this essay I discuss Margaret Wise Brown’s picture books as tools for provoking philosophic reflection in young children and as meditations on the situation of the very young child and on the reflective work of the young child at a time when language is still new and fresh. Some of her work concerns the most fundamental negotiation in personal philosophy—the negotiation of an attitude to the outside world, to those realities beyond one's control, beyond one's zone of comfort.
DOI
https://doi-org.ezproxy.montclair.edu/10.5840/thinking20041736
Book Publisher
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Shea, Peter, "Offering a Frame to Put Experience In: Margaret Wise Brown Presents Ideas as Opportunities to Very Young Children" (2004). Collected Papers of Peter Shea. 8.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_pshea/8