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Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner
By Vivian Gussin Paley and Susan Engel
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With the publication of Boys and Girls in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play—and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of gender roles and identity. The children’s own conversations, stories, playacting, and scuffles are interwoven with Paley’s observations and accounts of her vain attempts to alter their stereotyped play. Thirty years later, the superheroes and princesses are still here, but their doll corners and block areas are fast disappearing from our kindergartens. This new edition of Paley’s classic book reignites issues that are more important than ever for a new generation of students, parents, and teachers.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5When Emily's mother observes that Daisy the cow is in danger of getting through a hole in the fence and making herself sick by gorging on clover, the young Swedish girl sets out to take care of the problem, meeting a dog, a boy and a man on her walk to the field. Inadvertently prompting Daisy to escape, Emily chases along behind the runaway cow (as seen on the cover), before being aided in her recovery by the friendly dog she has just met. Once returned to their rightful field, Emily is able to repair the hole in the fence with the help of the local elves, who provide delicious berries in exchange for some of Daisy's milk.Originally published in 1941 as Duktiga Annika, this Swedish picture-book is half farm-adventure, half fairy-tale. Somehow I wasn't expecting that second half, thinking that the story would run more along the lines of the hero/heroine who meets three people/creatures who help her later - a classic folktale narrative, if ever there was one - rather than veer off into Children of the Forest territory. I'm not sure that the story in Emily and Daisy really works - the elves felt somehow inserted into a narrative where they didn't quite belong - although I appreciated the fact that Emily has the freedom to march off on her own, despite being very young, and that her mother is apparently unconcerned that she intends to handle the situation with Daisy herself. As is always the case with Elsa Beskow's books, the artwork here was lovely, with full-colour paintings on the right-hand side of each two-page spread, and text on the left. I particularly liked the scenes with Emily and Daisy together - when Daisy is investigating Emily's sand-castles, when Emily is chasing after Daisy, etc. - and the use of colour throughout. Recommended to fans of Beskow, or to readers looking for stories featuring independent young girls.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5feels like a very, very old story - from Sweden
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very nice book
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