Life Span Development

McKenna Hanely

Dr. Feroz

Life Span Development

16 April 2015

Library/Bookstore Field Research Project

I. Book Title Author Published Date

1. And Tango Makes Three Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson 2005

2. Same Same but Different Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw 2011

3. All Kinds of Families! Mary Ann Hoberman 2009

4. Mostly Monsterly Tammi Sauer 2010

5. Fancy Nancy Jane O’Connor 2005

6. Where The Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963

7. Horton Hears a Who! Dr. Seuss 1954

8. The Kissing Hand Audrey Penn 1998

9. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault 1991

10. The Night Before Kindergarten Natasha Wing 2002

II. Some of the newer books have similar stereotypes that part of the older books contain as well. Fancy Nancy is a book about a young girl trying to be a fashionista. Since Nancy is a girl most of the book contains female characters, such as Nancy having a younger sister instead of a younger brother. In Jane O’Connor’s books she has a great deal of female leads instead of male. In Mostly Monsterly, the stereotype of everyone has to be the same is addressed. Young Bernadette is a monster who is supposed to do monsterly things, but she is more interested in being nice and enjoying fun things. Other monsters who are Bernadette’s age believe she is weird and they cannot relate to why she does things differently than they do.

III. Today there is a large variety of books available to children of all ages. Three books that I chose that offered diversity in culture and family configurations were The Night Before Kindergarten, And Tango Makes Three, Same Same but Different, and All Kinds of Families. All of these books have illustrations depicting a variety of diverse people and families. And Tango Makes Three is about two male penguins in the Central Park Zoo. The zookeepers noticed that they were trying to hatch an egg but it was really a rock. The zookeepers took...