Three Stories You Can Read to Your Cat (1997) by Sara Swan Miller

Authors

Gareth B. Matthews, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow

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Description

When a cat's human friend leaves the house and tells it to be good, the cat does many things it considers good, like shredding the curtains, eating a house plant, and digging into the garbage. In this review, originally published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 16(4), 2003, Gareth B. Matthews demonstrates that young children can understand and enjoy the irony of sarcasm. They also enjoy grappling with the story's philosophical irony: the problem of clarifying the difficult question of what makes an action good or bad.

Publication Date

2003

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

City

Montclair

Keywords

Gareth B. Matthews, Ellen Winner, Sara Swan Miller, philosophy for children, irony, sarcasm, philosophical irony, good

Disciplines

Early Childhood Education | Education | Philosophy

Recommended Citation

Matthews, Gareth B., "Three Stories You Can Read to Your Cat (1997) by Sara Swan Miller" (2003). Picture Books. 23.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_picturebooks/23