LINKS: About a year's worth
Feb. 13th, 2011 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyll"When I say girls' school stories, I mean..."
Excellent overview of the genre by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
slemslempike
Funny cartoons by retrokat, in which girls own and boys own are mashed up with the twenty firts century (Click on the numbers to the right
A link to Wizard of Oz book illustration icons byhafital
callmemadam discussing L M Montgomery book covers http://callmemadam.livejournal.com/215540.html
Icons from various Anne book covers.
Some Famous Five book cover icons byozqueen, more Blyton illustration icons by the same and the Naughtiest Girl</> illustration icons by isabelquinn.
Cracks icons bydiana_hawthorne
Diana Wynne-Jones quote icons bycatwalksalone
http://catwalksalone.livejournal.com/442700.html and
Fictional headteachers can be educational says (self-selecting) “study":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/01/headteachers-literature-children-education-training
An article following a bag of donations to Oxfam (with a comments thread that rehashes the debate about whether Oxfam shops are a good or bad thing for the secondhand book market/the poor):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/04/what-happens-to-oxfam-donations
Fatphobia in YA literature by Katherine Nolfi. I hadn’t noticed this issue or thought about it much (but oh boy, could you get into the relationship with food and how fat girls are depicted in Girls Own!?) and I don’t entirely agree wth the author’s viewpoint, but it is a matter that’s worth thinking about.
Excellent overview of the genre by
slemslempikeFunny cartoons by retrokat, in which girls own and boys own are mashed up with the twenty firts century (Click on the numbers to the right
A link to Wizard of Oz book illustration icons by
hafitalcallmemadam discussing L M Montgomery book covers http://callmemadam.livejournal.com/215540.htmlIcons from various Anne book covers.
Some Famous Five book cover icons by
ozqueen, more Blyton illustration icons by the same and the Naughtiest Girl</> illustration icons by isabelquinn.Cracks icons by
diana_hawthorneDiana Wynne-Jones quote icons by
catwalksalonehttp://catwalksalone.livejournal.com/442700.html and
Fictional headteachers can be educational says (self-selecting) “study":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/01/headteachers-literature-children-education-training
An article following a bag of donations to Oxfam (with a comments thread that rehashes the debate about whether Oxfam shops are a good or bad thing for the secondhand book market/the poor):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/04/what-happens-to-oxfam-donations
Fatphobia in YA literature by Katherine Nolfi. I hadn’t noticed this issue or thought about it much (but oh boy, could you get into the relationship with food and how fat girls are depicted in Girls Own!?) and I don’t entirely agree wth the author’s viewpoint, but it is a matter that’s worth thinking about.
