My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.

I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

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