This book, byIt’s Not the Storkauthor Robie H. Harris and illustrator Michael Emberley, is geared to elementary school kids age 7 and up, covering sex-related topics in an age-appropriate, reassuring way. The accompanying art is inclusive and engaging, with two cartoon characters, a bird ...
It couldn’t have been a single invention–more like a gradual process of refinement. “The unconscious” only really entered our theory-of-mind with Freud. Statements like “my abuse gave me a lot of baggage that I’m still working through” involves a theory-of-mind that would have been...
Narrated by the one and only Miss Willa, it’s part research dossier, part personal diary – a unique mashup that brings you up close and personal with your favorite characters.Ever wondered what makes them tick or yearned for more behind-the-scenes gossip? This vampire compendium has everyt...
Mina Harker, one of Dracula’s victims, closes her letters by saying “Your ever-loving Mina Harker.” Frankenstein’s ill-fated fiancée, Elizabeth Lavenza, ends a letter with “Adieu! Take care of yourself, and I entreat you, write!”. What do these two characters have in common? They...
Face to Face with Terror: Children in Film A pamphlet, Kidstuff: Childhood and Cinema, produced to accompany an extensive season of films at the ICA London, to mark the 1979 International Year of the Child, focuses in its introductory essay on J Kelleher - Palgrave Macmillan UK 被引量: 3...
I think the rise of Black YA horror overall has to do with the legacy of Jordan Peele’sGet Out. It’s sparked a renewed interest in playing around with the horror tropes Black characters fall into–mainly that they die first. There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer ...
Michiko Kakutani ofThe New York Timeslikened its plot and charactersto “those in opera or Greek drama,” while inThe New Republic, criticStanley Crouchwrote that the novel “reads largely like amelodramalashed to the structural conceits of the [TV] miniseries.” But Crouch’s opinion was an...
Shares the responses of children to an initial exploration of books with gay and lesbian characters. Intends to learn from this experience in order to plan... J Schall,G Kauffmann - 《Journal of Childrens Literature》 被引量: 41发表: 2003年 Queer Discourse and the Young Adult Novel: Repressi...
published in 1982. It won aPulitzer Prizein 1983, making Walker the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer forfiction. Afeministwork about an abused and uneducated African American woman’s struggle for empowerment,The Color Purplewas praised for the depth of its female characters and ...
Violent portrayals aren’t the only problem with how transgender people are shown on screen. GLAAD’s analysis oftransgender characters on US TVfrom 2002-12 found that when not cast as predators, trans characters often faced brutal attacks. ...