Conservative	Progressive
impulse to preserve, protect, defend, maintain, to keep things the way they are	impulse to change the way things are,  to criticize, mock, expose, empower
views childhood as a time of innocence to be protected	sees the ways children are treated, and tries to change those conditions
reader ends the book thinking," That is the way the world is, and should be."	reader ends the book thinking, "I have never looked at the world that way, and I want to do something to change it."
book tends to empower those already in power: adults, kings, governments, men, etc.	book tends to empower those lacking power: children, women, minorities, etc.
book is told in a typical way, so that it seems realistic	book is told in strange or experimental ways, to expose what it, and other books, are doing
omniscient narration, typically sounding like an adult, in third person - talks parentally to child	book is playful: breaks 4th wall to talk to children, intertextual, self-referential
book does not reflect on, or expose, what it is doing - very straightforward with easy answers	book uses meta-textual techniques, asks deep questions, encourages you to think about its meaning
book is an Ideological State Apparatus: persuades us into beliefs by proprosing a version of reality	book attempts to expose that there are versions of reality, tries to expose systems in order to dismantle them
book establishes a series of roles that children can be interpellated into	criticizes roles for children and makes interpellation difficult
ideas in the story are made to seem like common sense, as self-evidently true	things that are typically self-evident come under scrutiny
child realizes the wisdom of parents, and the authority of parents is never challenged	child tricks adults, authority of adults are questioned
adult centered	child centered
didactic: teaches a clear lesson, often in preachy way	ambiguous: actively encourages reader to make decisions about meaning
monologic: single dominant voice telling the story	dialogic: multiple voices compete for power in the story
hegemonic: reflects the ideas of those in charge, and is powerful because of that	counter-hegemonic: critical of the ideas of those in charge
book is concerned with typical adult type matters: the mind, reason, rules, order, etc.	carnivalesque: driven by the body, by mocking laughter, by role-playing - by the carnival spirit that upsets the usual ways of the world the rest of the year
monsters that threaten us are defeated: things are returned to normal	character is forever changed by encounters with monsters, now sees the world differently
static characters are villains that are always evil	every character is complicated, not easily dismissed, have to think about it
protagonist has epiphany and learns that things are the way they should be	protagonist has epiphany and learns that things should change
belief that great stories reflect what is eternal and human in us - we should choose great stories to read; a canon	a critical view of the canon, a belief that stories construct and invent who we are, rather than reflect it back to us
*important: a resisting reader will look for ways in which a seemingly conservative story actually displays progressive possibilities, and vice versa