Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 09, 2008 at 10:07:25 user PeterC.
In Reply to: as others see us posted by andyb on October 09, 2008 at 08:15:20:
Whilst trying to track down a writer I had heard on the radio I came across the following website about children's authors...
Note that it is (1) specialized in scifi and fantasy and (2) American.
So what they say is what you would expect, including the heaviness about gender and racial stereotyping. Which is, from one perspective, correct. If I was reading the stories to my grand-children (they're too young as yet) I would, without making any big deal out of it, gently indicate to them when certain emphases weren't quite right. Worth doing- but I do that In Real Life anyway. Always gently, always reasonably, never going out of the way to find trouble, or boring on about it.