Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence by Julie Pfeiffer (review)

do children’s films specifically have a duty to be instructive, or somehow “morally” educational? Meeusen notes the potential “usefulness” of the texts foregrounding negative consequences to “bad behavior,” suggesting a cultural expectation of a level of didacticism. The extended range aside, this is a strong contribution to the conversation surrounding evaluative practices specific to children’s and YA adaptations, both of which remain relatively underrepresented in our scholarship.