2/18/2024 0 Comments Morris micklewhite![]() ![]() That’s what the celebrated Welsh historian and travel writer Jan Morris (b. So what happens to the person ripped asunder by a psyche and a body cast in different genders? And yet while the mind might thrive on such fluidity, our bodies - bodies that encode so much of our psychological and emotional reality - are born into a biological binary. “The androgynous mind is resonant and porous… naturally creative, incandescent and undivided,” she wrote more than half a century before modern psychologists came to see that psychological androgyny is essential for creativity. I’ve linked up with Susanna Hill’s Perfect Picture Book Friday where you can find some more great books!Īnd you can read ALL my book reviews here.“In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female,” Virginia Woolf observed in her astute reflection on gender. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy this book! Commended Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2014.Commended Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 2015.Short-listed Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, 2015.Short-listed TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, 2015.Commended Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids and Teens, 2014.Commended Kirkus Best Picture Books Celebrating Diversity, 2014.Commended Quill & Quire Books of the Year for Young People, 2014.Commended Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices, 2015.Commended Huffington Post Best Picture Books of the Year: Most Touching/Heartwarming, 2014.I especially liked their “friendship soup”.īook Awards and Praise (from House of Anansi): The Highland Literacy blog has a fabulous and extremely detailed set of lesson plans that could be used with this book. ![]() Encourage them to use their imaginations and paint the most outrageous and delicious images they can think of. Show your students how to mix up various shades/tones of tangerine and paint large, beautiful, orange pictures. And more importantly, guide them to an understanding that authentic self-expression is a healthy and beautiful thing! Help them to question and break down some long-held gender stereotypes. Provide some guiding questions, if necessary, but let the kids lead the discussion. Talk about this book with your students.I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard things like “Pink is a girl’s colour!” or “Boys don’t play with dolls.” So in terms of showing children that it’s okay to be YOU and that it’s important to learn to accept others for whoever they are, this book is PERFECT! Extensions: I also think it’s an important text for kids in kindergarten and first grade because in my experience as a long-time primary teacher, children at this age have some very rigid views about what’s acceptable in terms of gender roles. If you’re looking for a book that highlights self-expression then I think you’ll fall in love with Morris! With his mother’s support, and a healthy dose of self-confidence, Morris continues to be Morris as some of the other children are slowly drawn in to his fun, adventurous, imaginary world. As I’m sure you can imagine, the other children don’t like it and are not shy about letting him know. Kind and gentle Morris, who loves to paint, and has an amazingly vivid imagination, also loves to wear the tangerine dress at play-time. I was immediately drawn to the title, the artwork, and the charm and simplicity of this beautiful book. Morris likes Sundays because his mother makes him pancakes on Sundays. Morris Micklewhite has a mother named Moira and a cat named Moo. The other children don’t understand - dresses, they say, are for girls. It reminds him of tigers, the sun and his mother’s hair. He paints amazing pictures and he loves his classroom’s dress-up center, especially the tangerine dress. Themes: Imagination, Self-Expression, Bullying Brief Synsopsis (from the cover flap): Publishing: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press, 2014 Title: Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
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