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In this paper, I analyze 35 children's picture books that focus on the death of a child's pet to determine how they portray the relationship between a child and a pet, what they describe as memorable about a pet, whether the book encourages any compassion for the dying animal, and how the animal's death is described. I found that the majority of these books treat the death as less worthy of grief and less fear-producing that human death and therefore a good way for the child to learn about death and the life cycle. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes that a novel, Imaginary Friends, by Alison Lurie, can be used effectively in the classroom to illustrate ethical dilemmas that can confront qualitative researchers. Lurie tells the tale of the research misadventures of two fictional sociologists whose participant-observation study of a small cult illustrates many potential ethical and methodological problems of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes that a novel, Imaginary Friends, by Alison Lurie, can be used effectively in the classroom to illustrate ethical dilemmas that can confront qualitative researchers. Lurie tells the tale of the research misadventures of two fictional sociologists whose participant-observation study of a small cult illustrates many potential ethical and methodological problems of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]