Jessica Walton
Autor(a) de Introducing Teddy: A gentle story about gender and friendship
Obras de Jessica Walton
Associated Works
Royal Horticultural Society Collection : The container garden (1993) — Picture researcher — 11 cópias
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- Sexo
- female
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 276
- Popularidade
- #84,078
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 20
- ISBNs
- 19
- Idiomas
- 5
I love how much we’re seeing more diverse representation in middle grade books, but the novels that are so laser-beam focused on it are a little exhausting. Can we maybe now skip to the era of having diverse characters in a story without constantly referencing their diversity? That feels like true progress to me. There’s a scene in this GN in which the MC is trying to have a nice swim in the hotel pool in peace, but an obnoxious adult interrupts her to say that she’s “an inspiration,” and the point of the scene is that such do-gooders aren’t doing anything good at all by pointing up a person’s difference. I feel like possibly the author could ponder their own advice here, because the story (two teens meet at a con and gently and sweetly fall in love over their shared geekiness) would have been much more successful if it were, in fact, allowed to be the main story that just happened to have LGBTQ and disabled characters in the main roles.… (mais)