Escape to New York
by ELIZABETH GUMPORT
Source: Thisrecording.com
Excerpt:
The protagonists of children’s books are usually orphans. The family home is a prison that must be demolished before the book can begin. Only once they are freed from their cells and captors can the characters’ adventure begin. Out of the cradle and into the boxcar, or boarding school; the best world is the one without parents.
Read the rest here-
- New Study Finds Gender Bias in Children’s Books (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Violence, Children, and the Mixing of the Two (jmwisdom.wordpress.com)
- Pooh, Peter Rabbit and Clifford: Males Dominate Children’s Books (news.yahoo.com)
- Children’s Books Bad (theawl.com)
- Children’s books are ‘sexist and enforce gender inequality’ (telegraph.co.uk)
