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

Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 41
outsider status, 69
Ovid, 32
p
Paddle-to-the-Sea (Holling), 3
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s
Tale (Tonatiuh), 21
Parrish, Maxfield, 54
people of color, 22–23, 25
Perrault, Charles, 3, 8, 35
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (Barrie), 3
Peter Parley to Penrod (Blanck), 2
Peters, Gustav Sigismund, 38
picture books (children’s books, format of ),
4, 8, 18, 20–21, 26, 53, 109, 115
Pinkney, Jerry, 13, 14 fig. 5, 19, 24–25, 25 figs.
3–4, 39, 47, 72–73
pocket watch, 4, 88
Pogány, Willy, 57
pop-up books (children’s books, format of ),
105
Potter, Beatrix, viii, 3–4, 8, 10, 20, 55–56,
78–80, 99, 101–102
pourquoi tales (children’s literature, subgenre
of ), 18
power, 20–21, 24–26, 35, 42
powwow, 21, 26–27, 113
prizes in children’s literature: Caldecott
Honor, 18; Caldecott Medal, 11; Newbery
Honor, 11. See also Newbery, John;
Caldecott, Randolph
Puss in Boots. See Le Chat Botté
Pyle, Howard, 7
r
race theory, 20
racial insensitivity, 12. See also racism; racist
imagery; stereotypes
racism, 21, 25, 69. See also Baum, L. Frank;
Harris, Joel Chandler; Dahl, Roald; racist
imagery; stereotypes
racist imagery, 12, 20, 76. See also Alligators
All Around; Cat in the Hat, The; Little
Black Sambo; Song of the South; Travels of
Babar, The; Uncle Remus
Reading Is Fun-damental (drawing for
poster), 4, 9–10, 104
reclaiming, viii, 25, 73
Reese, Debbie, 19, 22, 111
religious proselytization, 69
representation, 18, 20–21, 62, 69, 107, 112
“Revenge of the Little Hippopotamus, The”
(Park, Jr.), 100
rhyme, 23, 38, 49–59, 63
Robert and Harold or The Young Marooners
on the Florida Coast (Goulding), 2
Roma, 67
Robertson, W. Graham, 81
Royal Game of the Dolphin, The: An Elegant,
Instructive, and Amusing Pastime, 107–108
s
Sabuda, Robert, 99, 105
Saeed, Aisha, 23
Salomon, Bernard, 32
Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little
Black Sambo (Lester and Pinkney), viii, 13,
14 fig. 5, 19, 73
Santat, Dan, 23, 24 fig. 2, 59
Scarry, Richard, viii
Schiller, Justin, ix, 2–3, 7–9
Sendak, Maurice, 4, 8, 10, 14, 19, 104, 112
Sewell, Anna, 8, 97
sexism, 21, 25
Shepard, E. H. (Ernest Howard), 7, 81, 93
Simeoni, Gabriele, 32
sketch, 8, 64–65
Slonenok (The Elephant’s Child) (Kipling,
Chukovskiĭ, and Lebedev), 46
social activism, 68
social awareness, 12
social dialogue, 21
Solomon, Peter J., vii–ix, 1, 3–4, 7, 14, 29, 33,
35, 37–38, 40, 45, 50–52, 54–57, 62, 64, 67,
71, 74–75, 78–80, 82, 85–86, 88, 90–91,
94, 97, 101–102, 104, 115
Solomon, Susan, viii, 1, 7, 14, 29, 50, 62, 64,
78, 101–102
Song of the South (film), 13
SPOT (Wiesner), 106
St. Nicholas Magazine, 100
Steig, William, 67
stereotypes, 13, 18–19, 25, 27, 65, 73, 76. See
also racism; racist imagery
Stieglitz, Alfred, 11
Story of Ferdinand, The (Leaf and Lawson), 3,
10, 10 fig. 2, 94
Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, The (Potter), 3,
8, 8 fig. 1, 101
storytelling, 18, 29, 39–40
Stuart Little (White and Williams), viii, 3, 11,
12 fig. 4, 74
“suppressed” Alice, viii, 4, 91. See also Carroll,
Lewis; Tenniel, John
t
Tale of Peter Rabbit, The (Potter), 8, 10, 79
Tales of Uncle Remus, The: The Adventures of
Brer Rabbit (Lester and Pinkney), 13, 72
tales (children’s literature, subgenre of ), viii,
123