Like other writers, authors of children’s books are inescapably influenced by their views and assumptions when selecting what goes into the work (and what does not), when developing plot and character, determining the nature of conflicts and their resolutions, casting and depicting heroes and villains, evoking readers’ emotional responses, eliciting readers’ judgments, finding ways to illustrate their themes, and pointing morals. The books thus express their authors’ personal ideologies (whether consciously or unconsciously, openly or indirectly). To publish books which express one’s ideology is in essence to promulgate one’s values. To promulgate one’s values by sending a potentially influential book into public arenas already bristling with divergent, competing, and sometimes violently opposed ideologies is a political act. Seen in this light, the author’s views are the author’s politics; and the books expressing these views, when made accessible to the public, become purveyors of these politics, and potentially persuasive.