Children's Minds | 
Donaldson proposes that most preschool children are capable of solving problems associated with operational thought. Critical of Piaget's experiments, she recreated them using what she considered appropriate methodology. Her findings (& through the work of others, like maybe Jerome Harste) indicate that young children are cognitively ready for emotionally tough topics, though they may lack experience. BTW, I haven't read this book.
RebL @emtobiasz I apologize for not posting sooner. I immediately asked, but then I got hung up. You likely moved along. My boss suggests using books like Daddy Is a Monster... Sometimes as a way to look at empathy & how we bring inferences to our reading. She also suggests reader response. The experiments mentioned above used Julie of the Wolves with third graders & sixth graders. I create programming & am not an educator, so this is a filtered look. 5y
emtobiasz @RebL thanks for researching further on this! I‘ll have to track this book down. 5y
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