people dont say it explicitly but having a collection that doesnt have lots of different cultures is gauche in certain circles. the neighbors would talk if they noticed it
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all childrens literature is ideological propaganda. or rather at least more more directly than most writing. everything has to have a moral. most are apolitical social norms but some are blatantly political some kids can tell which are which and grow to resent the latter
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I had a childrens book on how fantastic Gustav Vasa is and how he invented civilization, and my family has been Catholic for three generations. Books on brutal tyrants like Elizabeth I or Henry VIII are common
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Especially of the heroic queen genre. Borte and Temujin is actually a good children’s story, btw, you have to admit except for all the killing...
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You have a cute little kid, puppy love, fear of dogs, a crying boy who grew up to be a real man! I had a book in early elementary school on Cochise that I loved and another on Custer.
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One man’s hero is another’s Freedom Fighter but Shaka Zulu and Cortez are very easy to inagine as kids books. Shaka’s end is the more off putting part, but I have seen an idealizing kids book, and an older one and in English at that on Montezuma.
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I think a better idea is to think what heroes, in the classic sense we want kids to know about in the profound way we know King Arthur, Babe Ruth, or Gamera, friend of children everywhere.
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One last thought, somehow when I was six or seven I knew the story of when caesar was captured by pirates and bargained up his ransom and told them he would kill them all, I also knew about David & Goliath, (but not about Bathsheba) about Judith & Esther. These taught ideals
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Oglh and one last one, I had a book about Marie Curie when I was seven that had great cartoony pictures that talked about Poland fighting the evil Tsar and her & Pierre’s leukemia, and had a final picture of Irene Curie with a mushroom cloud and Marianne in profile. In English.
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So I entered second grade knowing that Tsars were bad, Poland was heroic, women could do great things with their minds, France was glorious and powerful, & sometimes what we don’t know kills us and that is tragic, etc... I see no problems with any of that
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yeah endorse across the board
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