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Nine-year-Old Girl Tells PC Critics to Leave Children's Books Alone

Sam Pope | Posted 18.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Sexism in Children's Books, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Roald Dahl, Richard Scarry, Ruth Whippman, Judith Kerr, Equality, Feminism, Home News
Sam Pope

If a nine-year-old can easily think of examples off the top of her head, then it shouldn't be hard for an adult, who knows a little about children's literature or who has at least popped into the children's section of a bookshop or library recently, to find some.

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Want Your Kids to Grow Up Thinking Men Are More Important Than Women? Read Them Children's Books

Ruth Whippman | Posted 09.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Sesame Street, Thomas the Tank Engine, Children, Children's Books, Tiger That Came to Tea, Sexism, Andrea Dworkin, Mr Men, Feminism, Richard Scarry, Women's Issues, UK Lifestyle, Home News
Ruth Whippman

Banished from Mr Men world, Andrea Dworkin style, the females of the 'Men' species apparently formed their own nation state in the early eighties, providing the various settings for the 'Little Miss' Books. But any thoughts of the establishment of a radical feminist utopia stop there.

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