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Wake up, Sleeping Beauty!
Classic fairy tales get a feminist makeover for parents who don't like their princesses tricked out, locked up or comatose. But were the old ones really that bad?
By Margot Mifflin
[08/20/99]

There goes my baby
Once, I thought my daughter would win the Nobel Prize. Now that she's started college, I just hope she keeps her phone, her power, her housing -- and remembers to wake up for class.
By Stephen J. Lyons
[08/19/99]

First crush
When you're a girl, a grown man's attention can make a woman out of you.
By Maurine Shores
[08/18/99]

Hot Flash
take my tv
The American Academy of Pediatrics says children under 2 should not watch TV. Why would any parent disagree?
By Jacques Leslie
[08/17/99]

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TV can be a good parent
The American Academy of Pediatrics says television watching is harmful to babies and toddlers. This mama says: I don't think so.
By Ariel Gore
[08/16/99]

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"Sun, Moon and Talia"
By Giambattista Basile
Published in 1636

"The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods,"
By Charles Perrault

"Little Briar-Rose"
By the Grimm Brothers

"Grimm's Grimmest"
By Maria Tatar
Chronicle, 1997

"Princess Smartypants"
By Babette Cole
Putnam, 1986

"The Paper Bag Princess"
By Robert Munsch
Annick Press, 1980

"Cinder Elly"
By Frances Minters
Puffin, 1997 "Princess Furball"
By Charlotte Huck
Greenwillow Books, 1989

"The Glass Mountain"
By Diane Wolkstein
Morrow, 1999

"Tatterhood and the Hobgoblins"
By Lauren Mills
NY Little, Brown 1993

"Don't Tell the Grownups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature"
By Alison Lurie
Little, Brown & Company, 1998
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