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Children and Young Adult Literature portal v • d • e This page is within the scope of WikiProject Children's literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Children's literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  Project  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale. Tasks you can do: edit · history · watch · purge Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks. Add {{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature|Tom Sawyer 1876 frontispiece.jpg}} to the See also section of related articles. Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}} Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project. Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information... Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject. Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

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Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks. Add {{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature|Tom Sawyer 1876 frontispiece.jpg}} to the See also section of related articles. Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}} Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project. Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information... Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject. Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

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Contents 1 GA Reassessment of Harry Potter influences and analogues 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne 3 Succession box removed 4 Multiculturalism in children's literature

[edit] GA Reassessment of Harry Potter influences and analogues

I have done a GA Reassessment of Harry Potter influences and analogues as part of the GA Sweeps project. I have found the article to be sound and to nearly meet the GA Criteria My two concerns were numerous dead links in the reference section and the lack of images. I have placed the article on hold for a week and I am notifying all interested projects and editors of this review. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this review please contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 18:27, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. Awadewit (talk) 18:40, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Succession box removed

I've removed the succession box on The Tale of Despereaux. This article is about a novel, not about the history of the Newbery Medal. The books that came before and after are completely unrelated, too.

This idea of succession is appropriate where a single author is involved, or a single series. (It also works to a degree in pop chart ratings, where an artist's popularity in a sense displaces another's.) But here there is no logical connection to the topic. It isn't any more relevant than the ISBN number that came before.

Finally, it's intrusive. The box caught my eye, I scrolled down, and discovered nothing of interest related to the topic. Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 22:21, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps this won't catch attention until I actually make the changes, but enough time has passed that it's reasonable to remove the succession boxes. I tried removing only one on The Tale of Despereaux, but the sole response I got was that removing a single box was breaking a succession of links [1]. Piano non troppo (talk) 06:27, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Multiculturalism in children's literature

Would there be any interest in starting a page or a category on multiculturalism in Children's Literature? Or is there a page already which I'm not finding?

I see we list various themes such as fantasy and there is a link to Native American children's literature, but not the wider theme of the portrayal of ethnically diverse characters. In the UK there has been a lot of work in schools in recent years to increase the inclusion of a more ethnically diverse range of characters in children's books, which has resulted in increased awareness and focus. Arts Council England has been particularly active in improving the awareness of this strand of literature. In the US there is the Coretta Scott King Award which is focused on the African American experience. There are other awards in other countries, although possibly not as well established.--Plad2 (talk) 08:56, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I have an issue. Some years ago, the British "Geographic" magazine researched cultural distinctions in the USA. They based it, as I recall, on choice of language, clothing and suchlike. Those are cultural distinctions based on researched fact. There are, however, distinctions that simply amount to a special interest group making unattested claims about nebulous cultural legacies. A scholarly treatment of cultural heritage is one thing. Unsupported claims by a special interest group are contrary to WP:BIAS, WP:V and WP:NOT. Wikipedia is WP:NOT a soapbox to push politically correct agendas. There are hundreds of cultures, culture mixes, people who don't see their action in terms of a particular culture. Myself? I would be strongly opposed to having any of my publications labeled as belonging to some particular culture. I wasn't making a cultural statement. I was just writing. And I suspect most authors are of the same mind. Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 09:46, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

OK. I've left this for a few weeks and, apart from Piano non troppo, no-one seems interested in this idea. I still find it interesting and may come back to it but I have other things to do and will leave it for now.--Plad2 (talk) 20:23, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't have time to help at the moment. But obviously it's a real subject. The discussion came immediately before a bot archived some of the talk page. So that was the only change I noticed on my watchlist. There's a broader topic of ideology and inclusiveness in children's literature, with attempts by some to reject certain works or promote others for their proper teachings. In the 1930's for instance "The Family from One End Street" was regarded as important for portraying a working class family. N p holmes (talk) 06:52, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. Available time is an issue. Perhaps if others are interested, we could aim to get this going in the New Year.--Plad2 (talk) 08:15, 18 December 2009 (UTC)