Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politi...
Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politics
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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English
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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The article explores the complicity of children’s picturebooks in the construction and critique of world politics. Focusing on The Gruffalo, it argues that this spectacularly successful book: (1) stories the international as a pessimistic, anarchical world populated by self-interested, survival-seekers; (2) disrupts this reading and its assumptions...
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Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politics
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2912923760
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2912923760
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0260-2105
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1469-9044
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10.1017/S0260210523000098
