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Children's literature introduces children to the world, stimulates their imagination, and mirrors the society they live in by reproducing its social rules and accepted norms. This is especially true with gender stereotypes, which display and reinforce the masculine and feminine roles constructed by a given society. This binary, one-dimensional, and conventional representation is harmful as it negatively impacts young readers' apprehension of gender roles as well as their personality, behaviour, and aspirations for the future. World-renowned children's author Roald Dahl has recently been criticised as a controversial author and a racist, misogynistic person. By adopting a feminist literary critical approach, this study analyses Dahl and his illustrator Quentin Blake's portrayal of female anthropomorphic characters, generally neglected by previous researchers in favour of human characters, in four books:James and the Giant Peach(1961),The Magic Finger(1966),Fantastic Mr Fox(1970), and The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me(1985). Female characters are weak, inactive, confined indoors, and constantly belittled by their male counterparts who are portrayed as adventurous and as decision makers. Therefore, this study aims to encourage parents and educators to teach young learners to read children's books with a critical eye to identify and interpret different stereotypical representations.

This paper is unique among the articles written about expatriates in that it focuses on the importance of self-efficacy, on developing one's cultural identity consciously, and on community building in order to facilitate adjustment. Well-adjusted expatriates build an array of strategies to overcome the many challenges they are faced with: awakening, overwhelmingness, culture shock, grief, uncertainty, communication issues, and identity loss. Most expatriates have had a wide array of experiences and thus can relate to characters with otherworldly experiences. James and the Giant Peach, a remarkable story by Roald Dahl, is used as a platform to illuminate the research literature as an invitation to reconceptualize expatriate adjustment creatively.

This article studies how two popular 1960s Anglophone children's films projected antisemitic ideas onto genocidal villains. Focusing on Cruella de Vil of Walt Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) and the Child Catcher of Ken Hughes's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), it analyzes the appearance of ethnically stereotyped, Jewish-suggestive figures presented as enactors of genocidal violence, rather than as victims or survivors of it. Subliminally reversing the resonance of the Holocaust's Jewish victimization by non-Jewish Europeans, these films both touch upon themes of genocidal atrocity that were belatedly emerging in broader Western popular culture of the 1960s, as well as maintain an antisemitic ethnic hierarchy in which implicitly \"Jewish,\" non-white, and queer bodies appear unworthy or dangerous. In these films, villains marked by Jewish, racialized, and queer stereotypes, as well as by antisemitic paradigms, categorically oppose the existence of an entire demographic or seek to confine and/or annihilate that demographic for their own perceived wellbeing. Contextualizing and analyzing this phenomenon, I consider its potential meanings for 1960s American audiences in relation to their shifting social and political realities, including the waning of public antisemitism, as well as the emergence of Second-Wave Feminism and the Gay Liberation movement.

Most people know Roald Dahl as a famous write of children’s books and adult short stories, but few are aware of his fascination with medicine. Right from his earliest days to the end of his life, Dahl was intrigued by what doctors do, and why they do it. During his lifetime, he and his family suffered some terrible medical tragedies: Dahl nearly died when his fighter plane went down in World War II; his son had severe brain injury in an accident; and his daughter died of measles infection of the brain. But he also had some medical triumphs: he dragged himself back to health after the plane crash, despite a skull fracture, back injuries, and blindness; he was responsible for inventing a medical device (the Wade-Dahl-Till valve) to treat his son's hydrocephalus (water on the brain), and he taught his first wife Patricia to talk again after a devastating stroke. His medical interactions clearly influenced some of his writing – for example the explosive potions in George’s Marvellous Medicine. And sometimes his writing impacted on events in his life – for example the research on neuroanatomy he did for his short story William and Mary later helped him design the valve for treating hydrocephalus. In this unique book, Professor Tom Solomon, who looked after Dahl towards the end of his life, examines Dahl’s fascination with medicine. Taking examples from Dahl’s life, and illustrated with excerpts from his writing, the book uses Dahl’s medical interactions as a starting point to explore some extraordinary areas of medical science. Solomon is an award-winning science communicator, and he effortlessly explains the medical concepts underpinning the stories, in language that everyone can understand. The book is also peppered with anecdotes from Dahl’s late night hospital discussions with Solomon, which give new insights into this remarkable man’s thinking as his life came to an end.

Matthew Dickerson raises an important point in his latest book \"Asian's Breath: Seeing the Holy Spirit in Narnia\" that Lewis offers a theologically problematic example of combating evil when his heroes terrorize the bullies at Experiment House at the end of The Silver Chair. Exploring Dickerson's point, and particularly how Lewis pairs vengeance with saitre in this scene, challenges readers to see that Lewis' work for children is often more transgressive than it appears, not unlike the concerns raised about Roald Dahl's vengeful punishment scenes. Extending the popular Dahl vs. Lewis discussion shows how they both may be read as authors who intersect horror and humor, but for different ends.

Every year, The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) awards the Roald Dahl's Miss Honey Social Justice Award. The goal of the Miss Honey Social Justice Award is to encourage and recognize librarian-teacher partnerships that empower our students to make the world a better place. [...]not only did the Asian-American project teach about social justice, it also enriched my school's reading culture. Through my school's one project, multiple outcomes were produced, including spotlighting an important social justice issue, engaging our community, and revealing the power of books.

The second world record was achieved at an awareness event to mark the first World Encephalitis Day, at which almost 700 people from 38 countries came together in Liverpool to create an image of a human brain with their bodies. Solomon is not only a clinical academic but also director of The Pandemic Institute, director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections (HPRU EZI; “quite a mouthful and not my choice”, he adds), Vice President of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and Academic Vice President at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). Through White, Solomon did a PhD in Vietnam (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City) on central nervous system infections, where he studied Japanese encephalitis and dengue.