I sent away for an ant farm and watched them burrow through plastic-windowed tunnels on my nightstand. I picked up bees by their wings and placed them with care into a bug box. “I wouldn’t have liked it.”īoy-type activities: in 1986, I collected crinoids and rocks in the forest behind our house. She says to Papa Bear, “But think back – how would you have liked it when you were cub if some little girl could outrun, outclimb, and outhit you?” Papa Bear is proud but Mama Bear is concerned. But on the next page, she soon outpaces them in reaching the top of the tree, in shooting marbles, in leaving them in a cloud of dust. She straggles behind them as they race down the lane and climb the bare limbs of a tree. The story begins: Sister Bear tags along with Brother Bear and his friends as they play. I wanted their blue-painted drawbridge, their frog pond moat. Though there was a girls’ version of a clubhouse near the end of the book, the boys’ forested haven was central: it was the epitome of effortless acceptance and belonging. No Girls Allowed was my favorite book in the Berenstain Bears series, the boys’ exclusive clubhouse splashed across the cover. The word Gender not even used in subject headings until 1993. The book’s Library of Congress catalog summary read, “Annoyed that Sister Bear always beats them at baseball and other boy-type activities, her brother and the other male cubs try to exclude her from their new club.” Its primary subject heading: Sex Role – Fiction. In 1986, Stan and Jan Berenstain published No Girls Allowed, the twenty-seventh book in their Berenstain Bears series. A single yellow flag billowing from the shingles of a turret. A two-story clubhouse on its own island deep in the vine-strangled woods, six bear cubs peering out from the wooden slats of windows and a lone green door.
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