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Poetry for Children
About finding and sharing poetry with young peopleIf you're looking for a bib of children's poetry published in 2014, I try to keep a list on my blog for quick reference (each year). If I've missed any, please let me know. I update it regularly.

Gender Role Stereotypes
Gender-specific books demean all our children. So the Independent on Sunday will no longer review anything marketed to exclude either sex
A good read is just that. Ask any child, regardless of gender, says IoS literary editor Katy Guest
Let Toys be Toys
We're asking the toy industry to stop limiting children's imaginations and interests by promoting some toys as only suitable for girls, and others only for boys
How to Talk to Little Girls
“When we say ‘heroine,’ we really mean ‘strong, brave, person of either gender,’ don’t we?”
Boys Can Be Anything”: Effect of Barbie Play on Girls’ Career Cognitions
to be found on Proquest March 2015. A recent study in the journal Sex Roles confirms that Barbie is not a good model for teaching girls about career possibilities. Researchers found that girls who play with Barbies tend to see fewer career options available to them than they do for boys.
Concepts: Gender Issues / Representation
“Texts are only representations but people process images as reality.”

Links related to Stereotypes; Gender Issues; Representations in the media; See also Body Image

Key quote: “The media do not merely represent; they also recreate world as desirable, and saleable. What they reproduce is chosen, not random, not neutral, and not without consequence”. (source)
Gender Equality
Transgender Children’s Books Fill a Void and Break a Taboo

Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.
Historical Non-Fiction

Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: CHP WOO 2020
ISBN: 9780399545436
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD! National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that--but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?