Haines, E. L., Deaux, K., & Lofaro, N. (2016). The times they are a-changing… or are they not? A comparison of gender stereotypes, 1983–2014. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(3), 353–363. https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843166340. Hollis-Sawyer, L., & Cuevas, L. (2013). Mirror, mirror on the wall: Ageist and sexist double jeopardy portrayals in children’s picture books. Educational Gerontology, 39(12), 902–914. https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2013.767650. McHale, S. M., Crouter, A. C., & Whiteman, S. D. (2003). The family contexts of gender development in childhood and adolescence. Social Development, 12(1), 125–148. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9507.00225. Tetenbaum, T. J., & Pearson, J. (1989). The voices in children’s literature: The impact of gender on the moral decisions of storybook characters. Sex Roles, 20(7), 381–395. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00287998. 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

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Study 1 used a content analysis approach to investigate the contents of the Mr. Men/Little Miss books. Content analyses have been used consistently to assess gender stereotyping in books (e.g., Diekman and Murnen, 2004) and is a useful method to establish patterns across qualitative or mixed-modality datasets. This approach is also broadly aligned with other relevant research that investigates the gendered content of children’s books (e.g., Crabb & Bielawksi, 1994; Tetenbaum and Pearson, 1989) and the presence of gender stereotypes in other forms of media (e.g., advertisements; Sandhu, 2019; graphic t-shirts; Lapierre et al., 2022). The aim of content analysis is to establish and interpret meaning from textual or visual content. Directed content analysis was chosen for this study, given its utility with large qualitative datasets (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005). Directed content analysis also allows researchers to be attentive to inductive codes, while staying grounded in the literature (Assarroudi et al., 2018) and is, therefore, suitably flexible. Coding Procedure A note on one of the titles - Little Miss Ditzy is also known as Little Miss Dotty but it is the same character and story. Little Miss Neat was a very tidy person, everything has its place. And every summer she goes on holiday for a week. What will happen when Mr Muddle visits while she's out? Little Miss Star is the 19th book in the Little Miss series. Little Miss Star wants to be popular more than anything. Miss Star goes to see a man (we can only see his long legs; it is later revealed to be Roger Hargreaves), and the next day Miss Star walks past a shop window and sees her book ( Little Miss Star, by Roger Hargreaves) in the window. This is the second Little Miss/Mr. Men book to break the fourth wall (the first was Mr. Small). Prevalence of Stereotypes. We then coded the frequency and occurrence of gendered stereotypes in the books. The coding of stereotypes was guided by Macionis’s ( 2001) framework of gender themes based on traditional gender stereotypes. This coding framework categorizes character’s attributes as pertaining broadly to stereotypes of femininity (e.g., submissiveness, passivity, emotionality) or masculinity (e.g., achievement, competitiveness, aggression). This framework has been successfully implemented in a previous study of gender stereotypes in a series of children’s books by Taylor ( 2003), as well as other literary works (e.g., an analysis of gender stereotypes in textbooks, Evans and Davies, 2000, and magazines, Ricciardelli et al., 2010). Every task and activity that the title character performs throughout their story was first recorded, and later categorised as either stereotypically ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’ by the first author, drawing upon published literature that investigates the stereotypicality of traits and activities. Recurrent activities that were coded as feminine stereotypes included shopping, housekeeping, and caring. Recurrent activities that were coded as masculine stereotypes included being boisterous, going on adventures, and exploring. Several activities were omitted, as they had no explicitly gendered connotations (e.g., walking). Again, this coding was completed by the first author in consultation and discussion with the second author to resolve any inconsistencies in the coding process.Miss Brainy is actually smart and able to answer people's questions. We see several of the Mr. Men in the story and she makes her way to Cleverland and there she meets animals like Elephant, Lion, and Pig. Assarroudi, A., Heshmati Nabavi, F., Armat, M. R., Ebadi, A., & Vaismoradi, M. (2018). Directed qualitative content analysis: The description and elaboration of its underpinning methods and data analysis process. Journal of Research in Nursing, 23(1), 42–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987117741667. Little Miss Hug is the 35th book in the Little Miss series. Little Miss Hug's favorite thing in the world is giving hugs, and Miss Hug is always on hand to give male and female characters a hug when they need it. Her extra special arms make her hugs extra special. Her catchphrase is "Everyone needs a hug."

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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.

We ran a second multiple regression with the four book choice reasons as predictors and Little Miss Helpful vs. Sunshine book choice as the outcome variable. This showed that only illustration preference was a significant predictor of book choice ( β = 3.85, p< .001), such that participants who chose Little Miss Helpful preferred the illustration of this book, but no other variables significantly predicted book choice. She tells you, herself, about her particular form of hyper-intelligence: Simply by sharing her wisdom. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 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. Bussey, K., & Bandura, A. (1999). Social cognitive theory of gender development and differentiation. Psychological Review, 106(4), 676. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.106.4.676.

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By 1976, Hargreaves had quit his day job. In 1981, the Little Miss series of books began to appear. It, too, was made into a television series in 1983, which was narrated by John Alderton, who, with Pauline Collins, voiced the Men and Misses, respectively. Although Hargreaves wrote many other children's stories, including the Timbuctoo series of twenty-five books, John Mouse, and the Roundy and Squary books, he is best known for his 46 Mr. Men books and 33 Little Miss books. Little Miss Whoops is the 33rd of the Little Miss series. Little Miss Whoops goes to visit her brother, Mr. Bump. Unfortunately, disasters happen. Lapierre, M. A., Ashtaputre, A., & Aubrey, J. S. (2022). Boys go, girls go along: Exploring gender and price differences regarding themes present on children’s graphic t-shirts. Young Consumers. https://doi.org/10.1108/yc-07-2021-1353. I used to read the Mr. Men/Little Miss books when I was little and really wanted to gift one of the sets to my little sister, (she's four and currently learning to read).In the 2008 TV series, The Mr. Men Show, Little Miss Scary kept her looks, except one of her spikes is gone and Miss Scary is darker red. She is a regular character. She loves fear, has her own television show, Miss Scary's Late Night Scare Fest, and is assisted by Mr. Bounce. Her house is a haunted house in the middle of the woods. Miss Scary has a collection of assorted masks (which are modified in season two) which she uses to scare the other Mr. Men and Little Misses, although they can frighten her as well. Miss Scary has a scary snore (as seen in the episode, "Sleep"). Little Miss Scary snorts when Miss Scary laughs. Miss Scary is also a fairy in some episodes. In the US and UK versions, Miss Scary is voiced by Susan Balboni and Jo Wyatt (Series 1) and Alex Kelly (Series 2). Little Miss Twins is the 15th book in the Little Miss series. Little Miss Twins do everything in pairs, and say their last words twice. Miss Twins live in Twoland. Little Miss Twins were inspired by Roger Hargreaves' twin daughters.

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Give the rabbits the right amount of carrots in addition to the carrots already given. Make sure that each rabbit gets the same number of carrots. No more, no less We then explored the free-text comments, as with the previous pair. Here, decisions also appeared to be driven by awareness of stereotypes for some parents (e.g., “ not keen on teaching my daughters they must be helpers”; Little Miss Sunshine). Similarly, a parent who selected Little Miss Helpful shared similar views: “ It’s important to me to choose reading materials that reflect positive values and role models. In this case, being helpful seems more positive and active than being sunshine”. In this condition, parents also shared their overall views on the Little Miss/Mr Men book series more generally, rather than focusing on their preference between Little Miss Sunshine and Helpful too. For example, “ I despise Mr men and little miss books and would only read them under duress” and “ I’m not really a fan of the Little Miss books”. For example, one participant discussed this: “ I dislike the implication carried by both books, that girls should either be cheerful (sunshine) or helpful. I also think ‘little miss’ is patronising when compared to ‘mr men’.” Beyond this, parents in this condition based their choice on other factors, including familiarity (“ I know this story better”), and aesthetics (“ The brighter yellow is more eye-catching”, and “looks fun”.). Feminist Identity and Book Choice Little Miss Inventor is as bright as a button. In fact, Miss Inventor is as bright as two buttons and can invent the most extraordinary things for her friends. But the challenge of inventing something for Mr. Rude has her temporarily stumped. There was also a contest that involved making a machine that would help Mr. Bump stop getting into accidents. The top inventions were in the book. Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. Little Miss Princess is the 34th book in the Little Miss series. The book was published in spring 2011 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Mr. Men. Little Miss Princess lives in a big castle with turrets and a moat, and Little Miss Princess has people catering for her, but Little Miss Princess isn't rude and spoiled. Miss Princess is a kind and generous, good-hearted princess. One day, Miss Princess decides to help an injured Mr. Bump, but as you can imagine, Little Miss Princess isn't used to doing things herself, so everything doesn't quite go to plan.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