Just How Radical Is Radical: Children's Picture Books and Trans Youth.
This paper analyses the Australian children's picture books The Gender Fairy, by Jo Hirst and Libby Wirt, and Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship, by Jess Walton and Dougal MacPherson. Both are examples of a rare engagement by Australian children's authors and illustrators;...
| Publicado en: | Children's Literature in Education Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 17 - 34 |
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