The Mysteries of Life in Children s Literatureby Mitchell Kalpakgian This most precious book is not a work of research or scholarship in the conventional academic sense It is a book that is informed by many years of teaching the classics of children s literature to large numbers of students who are generally unfamiliar with this body of knowledge a treasury of the world s perennial wisdom In this book you will rediscover your own childhood and learn again to appreciate the true the good and the beautiful It is a book that is is inspired from learning the art of simplicity and keeping alive the child in human nature the appreciation of the gift of human life the ability to wonder and imagine the enjoyment of learning as a form of play through the delight of stories and the clarity of seeing things truly as they are that is as good or evil right or wrong true or false In an age that rejects moral absolutes and repudiates the whole idea of intrinsic evils children s liter