Boys and Girls
We have called this special issue “Boys and Girls” in tribute to where the Horn Book’s great adventure began, as the newsletter of Bertha Mahony’s Bookshop for Boys and Girls, est. 1916. But as someone...
View Article>The other g-word
>I’m just writing up a notice for Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art (Philomel), which isn’t really for kids but is an extremely handsome exhibition-in-pages of...
View Article>What are the odds?
>The New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books have been announced; as commenter Ruth notes on a previous post, the gender score is eight to two. Elsewhere in the Times‘s special section on...
View Article>When Jane got a train
>In one of the group homes I lived in after college (not like it sounds, but too haphazard to be a commune) one of my housemates had placed in the bathroom an oversized children’s paperback book...
View Article>Why Can’t a Woman?
>On Saturday March 1st at 1:00PM, I’ll be at the Eric Carle Museum, moderating a panel discussion inspired by our earlier conversation about why women don’t win the Caldecott Medal as often as they...
View Article>Ladies-in-Waiting
>Does J. K. Rowling get less respect than Philip Pullman because she’s a she? The post >Ladies-in-Waiting appeared first on The Horn Book.
View Article>Color My World
>Via Andrew Sullivan, an exhibition of photographs of children by Jeongmee Yoon displaying their obsessions with gendered colors. I see pink-bedecked and -accessorized little girls all the time but...
View Article>Okay, everybody, outta bed!
>Let’s see if these boys can Make It Work The post >Okay, everybody, outta bed! appeared first on The Horn Book.
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Reading Along the Gender Continuum
Having grown up in the Free to Be generation, I’ve tried as a parent to steer clear of limiting gender norms in raising, and reading to, my son. We’ve read about boys and girls of all types, and (just...
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It’s always men’s night at the Caldecott
This is a perennially thorny subject, one that’s been aired before. But. Seeing the gender disparity amongst Caldecott winners this starkly expressed is kind of hard to ignore. Do we want to take this...
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Open Very Carefully: even quality books can contain stereotypes
One of the most popular books in my Pre-K class this past year was Open Very Carefully: A Book with Bite written by Nick Bromley and illustrated by Nicola O’Byrne. The book starts off like it will be a...
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On Raising a Scientist (Who Happens to Be a Girl)
It started when my daughter was around three: people letting us know that the things she’s most interested in aren’t meant for girls. At the time, these remarks were directed at my husband and me and...
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