-I’ve found Harde’s reading of the ambiguous status animals hold in Indigenous literature and oral histories interesting. If the relationship between animals and humans is not always perceived as ben […]
-I thought that Charlotte’s Web was going to delve deeper into exploring the human-animal relationship, but Fern (who as a character remains flat and undeveloped) fades out of the story after the first few c […]
QuestionsI have a few questions about the Newbery Medal: (1) In general, how representative is the Newbery titles as “American children’s literature”? (2) How does prizing “keep above the taint of commerc […]
Feuerstein and Nolte-Odhiambo write: “‘Pethood’ here serves as the analogous term to ‘child-hood,’ a similarly constructed social space that points to specific hierarchical relationships” (4). I was trying to u […]
-“There is no explanation, no justifying of this anthropomorphism in most of the books that do it. They simply assume it will be accepted; and it is.” (LeGuin 25)Why is it so that justification is often not nee […]
How did the entry/ article draw on interdisciplinary research?The entry draws from animal studies scholarship, feminist scholarship via postcolonial scholarship to maintain that even semingly liberatory […]
“The CCBC’s Diversity Statistics”Horning brings up the issue of Asian authors not writing Asian characters and how most of the books about Asians are written by non-Asians. This makes me think of some general […]
