SPIRITUAL AND MORAL VALUES OF CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
The article is devoted to how the spiritual and moral values formed in the Russian society and ﬁxed In the strategy of development of education in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025 are reﬂected in the modern Russian literature for teenagers, as the continuity of the current children and youth works in relation to the teenage literature of the mid-twentieth century, created by writers of the sixties and their older comrades. Collectivism, active citizenship, patriotism, a sense of pride in their Homeland, the willingness to protect its interests, internationalism, respect for each other, the family and parents, teachers, older generations; respect for work, justice, freedom, self -restraint, sacriﬁce, respect for human rights; family traditions-all these moral attitudes and values are formed through literature that demonstrates positive patterns of behavior. In the works of modern Russian writers translated family values, respect for elders, tolerance for «special people» and the ability to empathize with others in diseases and hardships, shows how the characters retain personal dignity, the ability to moral choice, humanity, which is a good example for young readers. The main theme of adolescent literature: ﬁnding your place in the world and its destiny in modern Russian literature is solved in a realistic plan (school story, which is experiencing a period of revival) and in terms of fabulously fantastic. More and more attention is paid to modern Russian writers who write for children, environmental issues. It is not limited to the protection of ﬂora and fauna, but takes on a special depth. They raise the philosophical problems of the unity of man and nature, the uniﬁcation of all life in the face of the ecological crisis, the relationship and interdependence of existence.