Is That You, Ruthie? is a harrowing account of a mother and daughter’s attempt to repair their fractured relationship.
- Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
The film tells the story of Troy Lovegrove, a seven-year-old Australian boy who became HIV-infected during birth.
Trigger warnings are increasingly ubiquitous but recent research finds they are ineffective, and possibly harmful, if used in a tokenistic way.
He’s been awarded Father of the Year – but there is a darker side to this character we need to talk about.
The fraught history of the Oompa-Loompas captures the irresolvable tension at the heart of children’s literature and theatre: it is impossible to separate these stories from the ideological fabric of our world.
Eric Carle’s famous book about a caterpillar was originally about a book worm.
Anguished cries of ‘cancel culture’ rang out with news that six Dr Seuss books would be shelved. But canceling Dr Seuss is not possible, nor is it the best way to build diversity and understanding.
He called them ‘stinkers’ and ‘nauseating little warts’, but author Roald Dahl’s characterisation of children as vulnerable is necessary for them to ultimately triumph.
Written by Kenneth Grahame as a story for his young son, The Wind in the Willows has also been read as a social satire and a gay allegory.
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