Albert’s Toothache by Barbara Williams

Authors

Gareth B. Matthews, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lenore Carlisle Reilly, Mount Holyoke College
Shari Tishman, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Description

This is the story of a young turtle named Albert, who claims to have a toothache but doesn't have any teeth. Poor Albert must be mistaken, we think at first - a trifle condescendingly - but perhaps his mistake is not so naive as it seems. This is only one of the philosophical puzzlers raised in Albert’s Toothache. The Wise Owl questions are designed not so much to elicit the "right answer" as to invite young students to think critically and imaginatively about philosophical ideas, using their own language and drawing upon their own experiences.

Publication Date

1987

Publisher

Sundance Publishers & Distributors, Inc.

Keywords

children's literature, philosophy for children, epistemology

Disciplines

Education | Philosophy

Recommended Citation

Matthews, Gareth B.; Reilly, Lenore Carlisle; and Tishman, Shari, "Albert’s Toothache by Barbara Williams" (1987). Wise Owl: Talking and Thinking about Children’s Literature. 2.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_wiseowl/2