There’s going to be a panel at AASL (School Librarian conference) this weekend called “Boys Reading: A focus on fantasy.” There are six well-respected, very cool middle grade fantasy authors on this panel. And they are all men.
And I have to ask: Why? Why can’t female authors discuss their...
When The Husband was a young teen, my mother-in-law tells the story, he came home from school one day and asked, “Why do some girls pretend to be dumb when they’re not?”
His mother explained that some boys are intimidated by smart girls, and so some girls pretend to be dumber so as to make the...
Laura Lippman; What the Dead Know (via wordpainting)
I want this place.
This is gorgeous!
Donalyn Miller (via abcofreading)
Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)
Welcome to the latest children’s literacy and reading news roundup, brought to you by Jen Robinson’s Book Page, Terry Doherty from The Reading Tub and The Family Bookshelf, and me, Carol Rasco from RIF posting at Quietly. For this mid-month roundup that should have been posted at...
Great stuff here!
Pie-charting the appalling gender imbalance of the literary world. Podcasting and academia don’t fare any better.
Fifty years later, “the problem that has no name” has both a name and numbers, but little seems to have changed.
Some female authors have been saying for several years now that this is a problem (and have been catching flack for daring to say that the refs aren’t doing their jobs). Well, here’s the numbers. For folks who live in the fact-based world, the argument is over. C’mon NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS; C’mon TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. You gotta do better than that.
It’s Toddler Tuesday! I like the ring to that phrase. I genuinely relished when my children were toddlers and now am reliving that special time through each of my grandsons (we grandmothers find all kinds of ways to mention our grandchildren!). Oh, believe me, I experienced my share of the...
It’s Toddler Tuesday! I like the ring to that phrase. I genuinely relished when my children were toddlers and now am reliving that special time through each of my grandsons (we grandmothers find all kinds of ways to mention our grandchildren!). Oh, believe me, I experienced my share of the...
