Little Miss Brainy (Little Miss Classic Library)

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This delightful set features the complete collection of 36 timeless Little Miss stories. As well as the much loved classic titles, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Sunshine and Little Miss Chatterbox, you can also enjoy the newest addition to the collection, Little Miss Inventor. Nothing was too good for Little Miss Splendid. So when she saw the most splendid hat you've ever seen, she had to get it. But it wasn't long before the hat started to cause some problems.

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Wagner, L. (2017). Factors influencing parents’ preferences and parents’ perceptions of child preferences of picturebooks. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1448. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01448. One day Little Miss Trouble was causing trouble, again. Telling lies about Mr Small. Then Mr Small and Dr Makeyouwell came up with an idea to show Little Miss Trouble that too much trouble is no fun. We then tested whether the book groups differed by the gender of the peripheral characters. Across the books, peripheral characters were significantly more likely to be male ( n = 239), with fewer female peripheral characters ( n = 44), F(1, 80) = 124.539, p< .001, η p 2 = 0.6. To test the prevalence of peripheral characters within books by gender of titular character, a mixed 2 (gender of main character: Little Miss versus Mr. Men) x 2 (gender of peripheral character: female versus male) ANOVA was conducted. This interaction revealed that there were significantly more male peripheral characters in Little Miss books ( M = 3.65, SD = 1.70) compared to Mr. Men books ( M = 2.45, SD = 1.59), F(1,79) = 9.86, p = .002, η p 2 = 0.11. There were no differences in the number of female peripheral characters in Little Miss books ( M = 0.59, SD = 0.92) compared with Mr. Men books ( M = 0.51, SD = 0.78), p = .68. Prevalence of Gender Stereotypes Eagly, A. H., & Koenig, A. M. (2021). The vicious cycle linking stereotypes and social roles. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(4), 343–350. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214211013775 An initial test for outliers showed that ‘Little Miss Chatterbox’ and ‘Mr. Chatterbox’ had z scores of 2.49 and 6.69 above the mean, so these outliers were removed from analyses of this item. To test for differences in the average number of words in direct speech, we ran a one-way between-subjects ANOVA, which revealed no significant differences in direct speech between the male characters in the Mr. Men books ( M = 61.53, SD = 36.01) and female characters in the Little Miss books ( M = 53.52, SD = 34.98), F(1, 77) = 20.08, p = .33, η p 2 = 0.012. Peripheral Character GenderRicciardelli, R., Clow, K. A., & White, P. (2010). Investigating hegemonic masculinity: Portrayals of masculinity in men’s lifestyle magazines. Sex Roles, 63(1), 64–78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-010-9764-8. But Mr. Clever is also very smug. He believes that no one can get the better of him, because of his superior intelligence. But of course, many do. Mr. Happy asks Mr. Clever to tell him the funniest joke, but Mr. Clever didn't know any jokes, Mr. Greedy asked for the recipe to the yummiest dish, but Mr. Clever didn't know any recipes, nor he could cook (as a machine of his cooks for him in Cleverland), Mr. Forgetful wanted to know his name, but Mr. Clever didn't know yet because they just met. Cherney, I. D., & Dempsey, J. (2010). Young children’s classification, stereotyping and play behaviour for gender neutral and ambiguous toys. Educational Psychology, 30(6), 651–669. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2010.498416. Little Miss Bossy liked to boss everybody around, which nobody liked. When the wizard named Wilfred saw how bossy she was, he decided something ought to be done and he introduced her to something even bossier than her. Mr. Christmas · Mr. Birthday · Little Miss Christmas · Little Miss Birthday · Mr. Moustache · Little Miss Valentine · Dr. Men · Mr. Bolt · Little Miss Waste Less

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Bazzini, D., Curtin, L., Joslin, S., Regan, S., & Martz, D. (2010). Do animated Disney characters portray and promote the beauty–goodness stereotype? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(10), 2687–2709. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00676.x. Little Miss Sunshine has been published under the alternative titles of Madame Bonheur (French), Doña Sonrisas (Spanish), Unsere Sonja Sonnenschein (German), Mevrouwtje Zonnestraal (Dutch), Η Κυρία Γελαστούλα (Greek), Lèguān Xiǎojiě ( 樂觀小姐; Taiwan), Balga Yang ( 밝아양; Korean) and Menina Alegria (Portuguese). When choosing between Little Miss Princess and Little Miss Brainy, participants overwhelmingly preferred the non-stereotypical option ( n = 44, 83.0%), and a one-sample t-test showed that this was a significant difference, t(51) = 6.85, p< .001. Participants were generally split between their preference for Little Miss Sunshine ( n = 30, 56.6%) and Little Miss Helpful ( n = 22, 41.5%), with no significant differences between book choice, t(51) = 1.11, p = .27. Motivations for Book Selection Peripheral Character Gender Presentation. In most of the books (79 out of 81), the protagonists interact with other peripheral characters. The gender presentation of these peripheral characters was coded and recorded. As well as appearances from other Little Miss/Mr. Men characters within the storybook franchise, there were also ‘townspeople’ that featured in several stories. The gender presentation and occupation of these characters was recorded, drawing upon textual clues and illustrations. This was done using visual cues that were aligned with binarized genders (e.g., beards for male characters, eyelashes for female). Additionally, animal characters were included in the peripheral character coding, as per Engel’s ( 1981) character count guidelines. Mulvey, K. L., & Killen, M. (2015). Challenging gender stereotypes: Resistance and exclusion. Child Development, 86(3), 681–694. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12317.Count how many sheep are hiding (those that aren't well hidden) after Mr. Bump imitates a wolf howl Mr. Miserable · Mr. Right · Mr. Thrifty · Mrs. Thrifty · Little Miss Penny · Little Miss Prudence · Wilfred the Wizard · Mr. Careless · Little Miss Nobody · Mr. Mean's brother · Little Miss Bump · Mr. Beefeater's Family Research has previously investigated gender stereotypes in a range of popular children’s books. These include: the collated Caldecott book prize winners (Crabb & Bielawksi, 1994; Crisp and Hiller, 2011; Clark et al., 2003), the works of Dr. Suess (Taylor, 2003), the 1974–1984 ‘The Reading Teacher’ collection (Tetenbaum & Pearson, 1989), a collection of ‘Notable Books for Children’ (Gooden & Gooden, 2001), a selection of books in ‘The Horn Book’ (Peterson & Lach, 1990), and, more recently, the Wisconsin Children’s Book Corpus (Lewis et al., 2022). While demonstrating the far-reaching and frequent nature of gender stereotypes in children’s books, arguably none of these sets of books so clearly attribute gender to its characters as the Little Miss and Mr. Men book series by Roger Hargreaves. Diekman, A. B., & Murnen, S. K. (2004). Learning to be little women and little men: The inequitable gender equality of nonsexist children’s literature. Sex Roles, 50(5), 373–385. https://doi.org/10.1023/b:sers.0000018892.26527.ea. Little Miss Star was very popular, but not famous. And she wanted to be. But then Little Miss Star had an idea. How will she become famous?

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Crisp, T., & Hiller, B. (2011). Is this a boy or a girl?”: Rethinking sex-role representation in Caldecott Medal-winning picturebooks, 1938–2011. Children’s Literature in Education, 42, 196–212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-011-9128-1. Little Miss Shy couldn't decide whether or not she would go to Mr Funny's party. People frightened her, but she didn't want to be rude... Will she get over her fear of people and go to Mr Funny's party? Little Miss Chatterbox, just like her brother Mr Chatterbox, talked all the time. This is a story about the time Little Miss Chatterbox decided to get herself a job. But what job will suit her chattiness?

Occurrence of Direct Speech. The occurrence of direct speech from the title character of each book was counted and recorded on a spreadsheet. Direct speech was defined as any text, including slang words and words of expression, displayed in speech marks (“”). Only the direct speech of the titular characters was recorded. Our results also show that awareness of the gendered messaging in books is be a predictor of parent’s counter-stereotypical book choice (Study 3). This has important implications for theories of children’s gender socialisation, through a lens of social cognitive theory (Bussey & Bandura, 1999). Parents who demonstrate awareness of gendered messaging of children’s books may ‘permit’ more diverse non-stereotype conforming book selections, which can serve to challenge and resist some of the gender stereotypes that children are exposed to in other arenas (Mulvey & Killen, 2015). Therefore, the ways in which parents make decisions about whether to select a gender stereotype (non)conforming book to their children is useful to understand.

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Barak, A., Feldman, S., & Noy, A. (1991). Traditionality of children’s interests as related to their parents’ gender stereotypes and traditionality of occupations. Sex Roles, 24(7), 511–524. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00289336. Little Miss Greedy was greedy, indeed. It was her cousin, Mr Greedy's, birthday and he invited her to tea. What did Little Miss Greedy get her cousin for his birthday?We then investigated whether the four variables of book choice impacted book choice for both pairs of potential selections. A multiple regression for each book pairing was conducted with book choice between each pair as the dependent variable and the four predictors (consistency with ‘what I want to teach my daughter about women’, illustration, ease of the story, and title character resemblance) as independent variables. The first regression, with Little Miss Brainy vs. Princess as the outcome showed that consistency with what participants want to teach their daughters about women significantly predicted book choice ( β = − 0.74, p< .001). Preference for illustrations was also a significant predictor ( β = 0.212, p = .04). Neuendorf, K. A. (2010). Reliability for content analysis. In A. Jordan, D. Junkel, J. Manganello, M. Fishbein (Eds). Media messages and public health (1st ed., pp. 85–105). Routledge. Cherney, I. D., & London, K. (2006). Gender-linked differences in the toys, television shows, computer games, and outdoor activities of 5-to 13-year-old children. Sex Roles, 54(9), 717–726. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-006-9037-8. Dr. First · Dr. Second · Dr. Third · Dr. Fourth · Dr. Fifth · Dr. Sixth · Dr. Seventh · Dr. Eighth · Dr. Ninth · Dr. Tenth · Dr. Eleventh · Dr. Twelfth · Dr. Thirteenth Personality: Changeable, unpredictable, variated, capricious, sudden, unaccountable, frivolous, purposeless, valueless