Once upon a time, you sat and listened to a story. And you still do this. Storytelling has always been a popular and powerful tradition in society—a way to transmit people’s culture, values, beliefs ...

When I was growing up, every evening before bedtime my father would tell my brothers and me stories of his childhood. “Tell us a story about when you were little, Dad!” my brothers and I would cry.

An important lesson in the moral education of children could be as close as the book in their hands. Stories matter. And they can play a role in shifting the importance of particular moral values in ...