Cool Boys and Cool Teachers from Literature
Jen Robinson, not wanting to be accused of either sexism or favouritism, is compiling a Cool Boys of Children's Litearture list over on her Blog Jen Robinson's Book Page. I encourage you to go over there and make some nominations. So far the Boys list is a mere 159 characters long (as opposed to the 200 Cool Girls of Kid Lit list) and Jen wants to close the list on Friday.
In a similar vein, the Blog A Year of Reading is compiling a list of 100 Cool Teachers in Children's Literature and they are asking for readers' nominations for the list. Again, I encourage you to check out the list-so-far and then add your own nominations.
My own list of Wicked Women in Children's Literature didn't even reach 30 - which I found interesting...
3 comments:
Thanks for the link, Michele, and for the suggestions! Maybe with your help, the cool boys will catch up with the cool girls one of these days.
I guess we just don't identify with the wicked women in the same way.
Some really good suggestions and links here. I'm glad I came across your blog.
Jude - thanks !
Jen - the lack of responses about wicked women seems to confirm my suspicion that there are far fewer of them than there are Dark Lords in children's literature !
It would be nice if the boys list hit 200 too !
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