Trickster's Choice | Elizabeth Devereaux
In the following essay, Devereaux examines the author's emphasis on heroic female leads as role models for young female readers.
Elizabeth Devereaux
In the following essay, Devereaux examines the author's emphasis on heroic female leads as role models for young female readers.
If you have not heard of Tamora Pierce, chances are that you do not have a preadolescent girl in your life. Enormously popular, Pierce is a best-selling and prolific author of girls' fantasy novels, loved for her strong female heroines and quasi-medieval magical realms. Her characters are not literary cousins to Harry Potter (whom they precede, having first appeared in 1983) but a more particular type,...
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