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Bezig met laden... Curious George's ABCs (editie 1998)
Informatie over het werkCurious George's ABCs door H. A. Rey
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book is appropriate for Pre-K and Kindergarten children. The main character Curious George travels through the alphabet sighing each letter and giving it an example. The author capitalizes the letter being referred to. This book could be used to help students with there ABC's as well as basic reading skills geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Getting rid of this book, however, makes me think of two questions:
1. Am I going to censure everything objectionable that comes our way when Tristan is growing up? Probably not, as this is neither feasable nor does it provide good opportunities for conversation and growth. Also, it goes against my instincts as a librarian. I can at most hope to control the types of things he encounters at a young age in his own home. Also, it would make me a hypocrite: many of the books and movies I love deeply have some objectionable content. Peter Pan has a stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans, and The Sound of Music's song "Sixteen Going On Seventeen" is pretty sexist. Will I keep these things from him because of their content? I don't know, but probably not. Instead, we will watch them together and then talk about the objectionable content, accounting for the views of the time period. What makes Curious George's ABCs different? Perhaps because he is too young to have a conversation with, and I don't want one of his first experiences with books to portray a stereotype.
2. If I find content in this book objectionable, should I donate it? Chances are that a lot of people, maybe even most people, would find the use of Firemen and Mailmen in this book pretty benign. And they might be right. I can certainly think of a few worse things to include in a picture book. And otherwise this is a pretty nice alphabet book with good illustrations, and who doesn't love Curious George? On the other hand, if I find it objectionable enough not to keep it in our own library, why would I want to help spread this particular stereotype further? It will fall into the hands of some other little boy or girl who might subconsciously absorb the message that only men can have these professions. But I can't bring myself to throw away an otherwise perfectly good book, and if I did end up throwing it away, then I'm one step closer to the world of Fahrenheit 451.
I am probably overthinking this, and I'm not sure why I thought it was a good idea to spend precious minutes of Tristan's naptime writing this review. But I am delirious with lack of sleep; in fact, I'm not entirely sure that what I'm writing here isn't complete gibberish that only makes sense to my addled brain. But I have been reading a lot of books about gender stereotypes in children lately and I believe that it's never too early to start combating those stereotypes.