Eight of the books read for this evaluation utilized a female as their lead character. In Amazing Grace not only is the lead character a young African American girl most of the characters in the story are either girls or women. There is only one boy, a classmate of Grace’s that is given a line in the story though other boys are shown in Grace’s class. The remaining twenty books are split six books feature a male as their lead character and the remaining six focused on either an entire family or had a pair of leads, one male and one female. The books read for this examination displayed a relatively fair spread for lead characters unlike those in McCabe’s work, “no more than 33 percent of books published in a year contain central characters who are adult women or female animals, whereas adult men and male animals appear in up to 100 percent” (McCabe, 209). The children’s books written by Bob Graham focused more on the family unit than on any one member of the family and the families in his stories appear to be less concerned with fitting gender stereotyped
Eight of the books read for this evaluation utilized a female as their lead character. In Amazing Grace not only is the lead character a young African American girl most of the characters in the story are either girls or women. There is only one boy, a classmate of Grace’s that is given a line in the story though other boys are shown in Grace’s class. The remaining twenty books are split six books feature a male as their lead character and the remaining six focused on either an entire family or had a pair of leads, one male and one female. The books read for this examination displayed a relatively fair spread for lead characters unlike those in McCabe’s work, “no more than 33 percent of books published in a year contain central characters who are adult women or female animals, whereas adult men and male animals appear in up to 100 percent” (McCabe, 209). The children’s books written by Bob Graham focused more on the family unit than on any one member of the family and the families in his stories appear to be less concerned with fitting gender stereotyped