Abstract
If, as has been argued by Durkheim, the religious ideas of society are related to their ultimate social values, then in the religious or spiritual values of children's books we may begin to see what ultimate values, what sense of purpose and meaning, adult society wishes to pass on to its children. I hope here briefly to examine religious values in children's fiction since 1790 as a means of placing the present and present anxieties in the perspective of a tradition of anxiety and failure.
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