The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Analysis
The Snowy Day (1962) is a famous American picture book by American author Ezra Jack Keats.
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes Novel Study
The Hundred Dresses is a middle grade American novel by Eleanor Estes, first published 1944. I consider this story a children’s literature sister of Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Doll’s House“. The Hundred Dresses remains resonant with young readers today, and is happily still in print after winning a Newbery Honor. (The medal was awarded […]
How To Determine The Main Character Of Any Story
Most of us writing about story pick one of the following terms and stick with it: Main character — shortened to MC Hero(ine) — the feminine form has pretty much died, though we still often say ‘actress’ Protagonist — which these days means ‘main character’ On this blog I use these terms at random, though…
Asian-Australian Children’s Literature
There are only a small number of Asian-Australian authors writing about Asia in children’s/young adult fiction and there are very few books where the first-person narrator or main character is Asian or Asian-Australian. Also surprisingly, there are very few Australian works with Asian content that have been translated into an Asian language – translations are…
Representation and Inclusion Vs Diversity
When talk of diversity expands beyond race it still ends up looking very much like a checklist of compartmentalized identities. Can we get a child in a wheelchair? Check. Can the doctor be African American, and a woman? Check and check. … For adults I often describe the difference between diversity and inclusion as the difference…
