Kisah nabi dan rasul untuk anak merupakan genre sastra anak yang populer. Tujuan dari kajian ini adalah untuk mengetahui jenis parateks, fungsi dari parateks, dan gagasan ideologis dari kehadiran parateks tersebut. Dengan mengambil sampel Kisah Ahlak Terpuji 25 Nabi dan Rasul Karya Elsa Malinda terutama teks nabi Adam a.s. dan nabi Idris a.s., kajian ini menggunakan prespektif naratologi Gerald Genette. Hasil penelitian ini adalah bahwa parateks dalam kedua narasi itu terdiri dari ayat suci Al quran, pesan hikmah dari teks, ilustrasi atau gambar, penerbit, pengarang, hipogram atau teks sumber, dan korpus sejenisnya. Fungsi parateks itu membangun genre sastra anak Islam-i, mengarahkan pembaca pada hikmah isi teks, dan menyakinkan bahwa teks ini memiliki legitimasi religi. Gagasan ideologis yang dihadirkan adalah upaya untuk membangun estetika formalistik sebagai genre sastra anak Islam-i dan membangun dampak kultural dan sosiologis sebagai sastra anak Islami.

This research focused on the spread of aesthetic discourse in Islamic literature, especially Islamic Indonesian children’s literature which was marginalised in Indonesian literature history. The paper aimed to identify the system of exclusion or prohibition, restrictions to discourse and genealogical aesthetics of Islamic children’s literature. The data utilised were various discourses available in Indonesian literature, aesthetics in the history of the literature mentioned, Indonesian literary experts and critics’ opinions, and different information related to the topic. Data interpretation was executed based on the strategy introduced by Michel Foucault on discourse and power. Results showed that the discourse of Islamic literary aesthetics was deliberately eliminated during the New Order era because it was believed to be a part of the right-wing political power apparatus. That exclusion was carried out with restrictions and prohibitions by highlighting the aesthetics of development and modernity as the dominant aesthetic discourse in Indonesian literature, such as universal humanism. The history of aesthetic discourse in Islamic literature, including Islamic children’s literature, appeared significantly during the Post-Reformation era due to the New Order’s collapse. Hence aesthetic discourses that emerged afterwards were highly diverse and on par with other genres. Keywords: Islamic literary aesthetic discourse, children’s literature, Indonesian literary history.