Cross-Border Bodies: How to Fit When Your Body Does Not

  • Leonor Ruiz-Guerrero University of Murcia
Keywords: border, bodies, size

Abstract

Review of:

Brun-Cosme, Nadine and Aurélie Guillerey. Daddy Long Legs. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2017.

Cali, Davide and Sébastien Mourrain. The Tiny Tale of Little Pea. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2017.

Leng, Qin. I Am Small. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2018.

Renaud, Anne and Marie Lafrance. The True Tale of a Giantess: The Story of Anna Swan. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2018.

 

DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2020.0011

Author Biography

Leonor Ruiz-Guerrero, University of Murcia

Dr. Leonor Ruiz-Guerrero is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Language and Literature Teaching at the University of Murcia (Spain). Her research focuses on picture books promoting democratic citizenship, book talk and critical thinking in education, representations of gender in contemporary picture books, and postmodern children’s literature. Her most recent publication is “New Lived Spaces in the Post-industrial World: The Sound of Colors by Jimmy Liao” (Encyclopaideia, vol. 23, no. 55, 2019, pp. 27-51).

Cover image depicting a vintage set of Fry’s Fighting Soldiers: Sons of the Empire, featuring eight Canadian toy soldiers. (Title: Soldier Set / Ensemble de soldat , CWM/MCG 19860157-008, Canadian War Museum / Musée canadien de la guerre).
Published
2020-08-27
How to Cite
Ruiz-Guerrero, L. (2020). Cross-Border Bodies: How to Fit When Your Body Does Not. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 12(1), 184-193. Retrieved from http://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/511
Issue
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2020)
Section
Review Essays