How Can Books Support Social and Moral Development – Books that support Social and Moral Development 7Social development is a key aspect of a preschool child’s life and they are learning everyday how to navigate the world in a social way. Children thrive on friendships. They learn so much about emotions and perspective through these social interactions with friends, adults and the environment. As Piaget state in his theory that children in this age range, 2-6, are egocentric and only see their experiences through their eyes and have a hard time understanding the point of view from the other side. To help children to become more sympathetic and empathetic we as teachers must be the voiced of the “other side” so that children though a teachers modeling start to become aware that there are two sides to every story. Teaching children these skills is more of a situational thing and you have to be able to capture the situation as it is happening and use them as “teachable moments”. Books can support these learnings and help children start to understand these social and moral concepts. For this discussion you will need to share 3 books (title, author and perhaps a picture of the cover) that you have found that support social and moral development. On top of sharing three books you will need to discuss why you choose these books with support from the text and learnings.