Animals Are Us: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature; Celebrating the Peter J. Solomon Collection

INDEX
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12 Fables of Aesop (Aesop, Wescott, and
Frasconi), 42
A
A Is for Activist (Nagara), 68
ableism, 21, 25
accordion books (children’s books, format
of ), 8, 99, 101
adaptations, 12, 32, 70, 72–73, 87–97, 105;
reclaiming, vi, 25, 73; re-storying, 25
Addams, Charles, 58
adventures (children’s literature, subgenre
of ), 2–5, 9, 13, 51, 72, 81, 89, 91, 105
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain),
2
Adventures of Pinocchio, The (Collodi), 3
advocacy, 29, 97
Aesop’s Fables (Aesop), 13, 18, 24, 39, 42–44,
47
African Americans, 12–13, 19–20, 22, 25, 70,
72, 109. See also Black, black (people of
the African diaspora), 13, 19, 21–22, 29, 72;
people of color, 22–23, 25
Africans, 19, 25–26, 71
After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got
Back Up Again (Santat), 23, 24 fig. 2, 59
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll),
viii, 2, 4, 9, 88–91, 95, 105–106. See also
“suppressed” Alice, viii, 4, 90
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Sabuda),
105
Alligators All Around: An Alphabet, in
Nutshell Library (Sendak), 19, 112. See also
controversy in children’s literature
alphabet books (children’s literature,
subgenre of ) 4, 9, 19, 61–62, 64–66, 112
alphabets, 4, 9, 19, 28, 61, 64–65, 112
American Gothic (Wood), 58
American Indians, 19, 23. See also Cree, 114;
First Nations, 22–23, 113; Indians (Native
Americans), 19, 23, 112; Indigenous
people, 19, 29, 111; Métis, 114; Native
American peoples, 22–23, 67, 92, 111–113;
Ojibwe, viii, 26, 113
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
(McDermott), 18
Anderson, Alexander, 34
Andersen, Hans Christian, 2, 4
animals, racialized, 21. See also Berenstain
Bears; Travels of Babar
Anninger, Anne, 14
anthropomorphism, vii–viii, 17–20, 23–25,
27, 29, 31, 36, 47, 50, 54, 57, 61, 66–67, 92,
99, 104
anthropomorphism, racialized, 19–20
Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes (Potter),
55–56
“Autograph manuscript for a pictorial
nonsense alphabet” (Lear), 4, 64
b
Baker, Augusta, 13, 72
Bannerman, Helen, 13, 18–19, 71
Barnaby Lee (Bennett), 2
Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 4, 7, 54, 59,
69, 92
Baynes, Pauline, 75
Beautiful Blackbird (Bryan), 25–26, 84
Beauty and the Beast (Leprince de
Beaumont), 9
Benjamin, Park, Jr., 100
Bennett, Charles H., 52
Berenstain Bears, The: New Neighbors
(Berenstain and Berenstain), 21
bestiaries (children’s literature, subgenre of ),
18
Bewick, Thomas, 62
bilingual books (Cree, Ojibwe, Spanish), 21,
26–27, 66, 113–114
bilingualism, 66
Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions.
The Autobiography of a Horse. Translated
from the Original Equine (Sewell and
Hewitt), 8, 97
Black, black (people of the African diaspora),
13, 19, 21–22, 29, 72. See also African
Americans, 12–13, 19–20, 22, 25, 70, 72,
109; people of color, 22–23, 25
blackface minstrelsy, 20, 76. See also racism
Blanck, Jacob, 2, 8
board book (children’s books, format of ), 114
Book Expo, 23
BookCon, 23
Bowwow Powwow: Bagosenjige-niimi’idim
(Child, Thunder, and Jourdain), 21, 26, 27
figs. 5–6, 113
“Bremen Town Musicians, The” (fable), 37
Brothers Grimm, 3, 18, 37
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