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The Unlikely Bestseller: 'A Wrinle in Time' Turns 50

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These were some of my favorite books growing up!!

Later on, I was surprised that tesseracts exist - and at some of the other information I had unknowingly absorbed from the books :)

I read a study somewhere about why there are so few female protagonists in children's books/sci fi books: Basically, the study said that while girls don't mind reading stories with boys as the main characters, it is harder to get boys to read books where the girl is the main character... Our society hasn't come as far as we'd like to think...

Wonder how that relates to the most recent phenom: "Hunger Games." Is it mostly girls that are interested in this movie??? Or does it captivate the boys as well due to its' premise of fighting to the death?
 
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scrapngen said:
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I read a study somewhere about why there are so few female protagonists in children's books/sci fi books: Basically, the study said that while girls don't mind reading stories with boys as the main characters, it is harder to get boys to read books where the girl is the main character... Our society hasn't come as far as we'd like to think...
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That explanation makes a lot of sense. Can you remember anything about where you found this study, any hints so I can find it?
PJ
 
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LOVED that book. So much so that when I ran a "BBS" in the mid 80s when I was in high school, I named it "The Tesseract".
 
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pjrose said:
That explanation makes a lot of sense. Can you remember anything about where you found this study, any hints so I can find it?
PJ
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I think Marjorie Allen is one author of girl studies who claims this...otherwise, just do a bing search of girl vs. boy protagonists, and you'll find all kinds of stuff...but I think I originally read about this in a book about gifted girls... or gifted children. I'm horrible when it comes to references!!
 
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