Comments on: Wow! I’ve Found My Heroine Mini-Post http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/ Anyone else find childhood a little stifling these days? Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:04:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Candace http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-458 Candace Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:27:32 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-458 great info. I found this at NOW http://www.now.org/store/amazon.html?ref=0920236162/104-9119700-4358342&outofstock=yes$?mv_pc=holidays great info. I found this at NOW http://www.now.org/store/amazon.html?ref=0920236162/104-9119700-4358342&outofstock=yes?mv_pc=holidays

]]> By: Tree of Knowledge http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-421 Tree of Knowledge Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:55:53 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-421 Holy crap. My visitors have skyrocketed in the last two days. I'm pretty sure I found those lists via Bitch PhD though. But while I have your attention, here are four good anthologies of feminist fairy tales appropriate for reading with children: Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters--Kathleen Ragan The Outspoken Princess and The Gentle Knight--Jack Zipes Don't Bet on the Prince--Jack Zipes Mirror, Mirror--Jane Yolen & Heidi E.Y. Stemple and Angela Carter's collections of fairy stories are very good. and the folks at the surlalunfairytales.com discussion board are a wonderful resource for fairy tales and fantasy questions, including book ideas. And the website is wonderful if you like fairy tales. Holy crap. My visitors have skyrocketed in the last two days. I’m pretty sure I found those lists via Bitch PhD though. But while I have your attention, here are four good anthologies of feminist fairy tales appropriate for reading with children:

Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters–Kathleen Ragan
The Outspoken Princess and The Gentle Knight–Jack Zipes
Don’t Bet on the Prince–Jack Zipes
Mirror, Mirror–Jane Yolen & Heidi E.Y. Stemple

and Angela Carter’s collections of fairy stories are very good.

and the folks at the surlalunfairytales.com discussion board are a wonderful resource for fairy tales and fantasy questions, including book ideas. And the website is wonderful if you like fairy tales.

]]> By: ScienceWoman http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-416 ScienceWoman Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:40:07 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-416 Thanks for these lists. Minnow is still a little young yet for books, but I'm already fighting princess-themed clothes. (BTW, Bitch PhD pointed me here a few weeks ago, and I love the blog). Thanks for these lists. Minnow is still a little young yet for books, but I’m already fighting princess-themed clothes. (BTW, Bitch PhD pointed me here a few weeks ago, and I love the blog).

]]> By: mom http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-415 mom Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:21:46 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-415 Mom, if you out me on my childhood one more time, I will block you from commenting! I know you don't know much about bloggy land, but I have the magic power to do such things bwahahahaha. xoxo love you ;-) PS - Mom, when you comment and it asks for your URL, just leave it blank -- unless you have your own website I don't know about. Mom, if you out me on my childhood one more time, I will block you from commenting! I know you don’t know much about bloggy land, but I have the magic power to do such things bwahahahaha.

xoxo love you ;-)

PS - Mom, when you comment and it asks for your URL, just leave it blank — unless you have your own website I don’t know about.

]]> By: Mom'smom http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-413 Mom'smom Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:28:00 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-413 Ok, as a reminder of your youth, I will be getting Thing 1 Sylvia jean the Drama Queen. Hope she doesn't stomp her feet like you did. Ok, as a reminder of your youth, I will be getting Thing 1 Sylvia jean the Drama Queen. Hope she doesn’t stomp her feet like you did.

]]> By: The Modesto Kid http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-404 The Modesto Kid Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:21:36 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-404 Yeah, maybe we should get her the Dangerous Book to go along with it. Funny: the first thing Sylvia did when she unwrapped the package (after saying unironically, "Ooh, a book! That's the greatest present ever!") was to scan through the table of contents, turn to p. 212 IIRC for the entry on "Boys", look for a minute and then put a bookmark in there. As far as "dry", I think based on very minimal scanning, the authors are going for a kind of anachronistic sound. Don't know how well they acheived it. Yeah, maybe we should get her the Dangerous Book to go along with it. Funny: the first thing Sylvia did when she unwrapped the package (after saying unironically, “Ooh, a book! That’s the greatest present ever!”) was to scan through the table of contents, turn to p. 212 IIRC for the entry on “Boys”, look for a minute and then put a bookmark in there. As far as “dry”, I think based on very minimal scanning, the authors are going for a kind of anachronistic sound. Don’t know how well they acheived it.

]]> By: mom http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-401 mom Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:06:34 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-401 Me too, modesto kid. I didn't dislike it, I just wondered if a kid would like it. It seemed a little too, I don't know, too, too -- dry? rigid (there is one right way to do things)? something. I also just hate the instructions for boys vs. instructions for girls. I mean, man, as bphd shows -- who wouldn't want to make a lemonade stand? Me too, modesto kid. I didn’t dislike it, I just wondered if a kid would like it. It seemed a little too, I don’t know, too, too — dry? rigid (there is one right way to do things)? something.

I also just hate the instructions for boys vs. instructions for girls. I mean, man, as bphd shows — who wouldn’t want to make a lemonade stand?

]]> By: The Modesto Kid http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-399 The Modesto Kid Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:56:40 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-399 Sylvia got the Daring Book as a gift from her aunt; I'm glad to see people who've read it like it -- just leafing through I was feeling a little skeptical. Sylvia got the Daring Book as a gift from her aunt; I’m glad to see people who’ve read it like it — just leafing through I was feeling a little skeptical.

]]> By: subarctic mama http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-396 subarctic mama Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:22:33 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-396 Great lists. Thanks for sharing these. Great lists. Thanks for sharing these.

]]> By: bitchphd http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-395 bitchphd Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:36:35 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/wow-ive-found-my-heroine-mini-post/2007/12/05/#comment-395 I want to personally endorse the Daring Book for Girls, which PK has (because after all, he already had the Dangerous Book for Boys, which we'd agreed was sexist because what, girls don't want to know how to make paper airplanes?). He's determined to follow its directions for making a lemonade stand this weekend. I want to personally endorse the Daring Book for Girls, which PK has (because after all, he already had the Dangerous Book for Boys, which we’d agreed was sexist because what, girls don’t want to know how to make paper airplanes?). He’s determined to follow its directions for making a lemonade stand this weekend.

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