(no subject)

[erbie]

Hello flist! I am looking for your book recommendations.

I want to find books for my daughters that have strong female leads. I don't want books where the princess rejects all her suitors or anything else that's just her rebelling against her female role. I don't want that to be an issue. I have plenty of those and frankly, with me as a mother, that's not really a problem. ;) I want books where the female is in the role that is traditionally given to the male. I don't want anything about her being rescued by any man. I want Harry Potter with a female Harry. Or The Phantom Tollbooth with a female Milo.

Remember that my oldest is only seven, so I'd like things that are good for her now. She's just starting to be interested in chapter books. I'd also like things that I can steer her towards as she gets older.

So whaddayagot?

Comments

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Underworld series and Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series feature women who kick some serious ass.

They are fun... I wouldn't exactly call 'em free from gender stereotyping, though!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

No, not at all, but by then Bob would be old enough to know how many grains of salt to use. Some of it is also very self-aware (the characters, that is, not the author), which I can live with a lot more easily.