Looking for Independence: Choosing Suitable Literary Texts for the Program of Philosophy for Children

This paper is a content analysis of several stories in order to show that the program of «philosophy for children» can benefit from existing stories to reach its main aim, that is, independence. It is concluded in this research that such works of fiction can help the program of «philosophy for children» very well answering its needs. In addition, the many similarities were identified among the many theories of Morteza Khosronejad, Maria Nikolajeva and Bruno Bettelheim with the findings of this research.