Stories for Your Free Children© Dawn Friedman
Feb 17, 2001
When I was a kid, I was always anxious to get my hands on my mom's latest Ms. magazine before my sister or brother got to it. First I would flip to the back to see the "No Comment" page (it featured examples of scary, sexist advertising); then I would read the letters looking particularly for the ones that said, "Click!" and described the way the author suddenly "got" feminism; and then I would settle in to read that month's story for "Free Children." Well, Ms. no longer publishes those stories although they do still have the "No Comment" page. Fortunately, it's much easier for me to find feminist-friendly children's books for my son than it was for my mom to find them for us. Want to know more about literature for free children? Check out these sites: Tales of heroines now abound in literary world: http://www.charleston.net/pub/entertain/... The Women and Children First bookstore in Chicago, you'll love browsing this site:
http://womenchildren.booksense.com/NASAp... I love this! The Loganberry Book Club:
http://www.logan.com/loganberry/juv-femi... The Brave Girls and Strong Women booklist:
http://members.aol.com/brvgirls/bklist.h... From the ERIC clearinghouse, Gender Issues in Children's Literature:
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/dig... Print this out for your next trip to the library. A list of picture books supporting non-traditional gender roles:
http://fuji.acpl.lib.in.us/Childrens_Ser... Here's the transcript of an interesting discussion about retelling literature from a feminist point of view:
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/w...
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