User:Jray111/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
 * Article Evaluation Over the years, the talk page has has a good about of back and forth, I presume especially because it is a Dr. Seuss book. In terms of the article itself, the references used seem to be accurate and there is a variety of sections. I think the lead section doesn’t need as extensive a section about the many adaptations of the first book, as it makes the lead section a bit imbalanced. A section that could be added in terms of scholarly discussion and reviews would be cultural and religious implications of this book, which is out there and made up a decent amount of what I could find on the book on scholarly searches.  I also think there is perhaps too much about the adaptations in the section on the book’s adaptions and it is not balanced with the rest of the article - this page should have more about the book than adaptations. There is a lot of, what I found to be, somewhat unnecessary and almost biographical information about Dr. Seuss, his wife, and what they were doing around the time of the publishing of the book, and it takes up a disproportionate amount of space in the article. For example, I don’t think their vacation to Hawaii where “he checked and returned the book’s galley proof” has too much to do with the book.:
 * Sources
 * Dr. Seuss’ “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”: Its Recent Acceptance Into the American Popular Christmas Tradition “And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!” or How the Grinch Heard Christmas A Transformative Biblical Encounter: The Garden of Edin in How the Grinch Stole Christmas
 * Dr. Seuss’ “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”: Its Recent Acceptance Into the American Popular Christmas Tradition “And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!” or How the Grinch Heard Christmas A Transformative Biblical Encounter: The Garden of Edin in How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Option 2

 * Curious George (book)
 * Article Evaluation
 * There has been some discussion over the years on the Talk page as edits have been made, and I think said edits were positive. However, my overall evaluation of this article is that it needs to be expanded. The categories I would think necessary to be covered in this article are, for the most part present and more or less balanced, but all are quite brief. Also, from the quick searches I did online in scholarly discussion about the book(s), there is discussion about the racial implications and colonialism, as well as consumerism and product placement of Curious George branded items, and I feel that discussion on such topics is missing from this Wiki page. I found the article on the list of High Importance, Start-class articles, and thus I have to assume there is more that needs to be added to this page as a whole. From what I can tell, the references used are good, but there are several places where citation is needed for where the information was obtained.
 * Sources
 * Curious George Gets Branded: Reading as Consuming. Curious George Explores the Diaspora Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism
 * Sources
 * Curious George Gets Branded: Reading as Consuming. Curious George Explores the Diaspora Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism



Option 3

 * ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge Sources
 * ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge (Review) ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge (Review)
 * 2022 ALA Youth Media Awards

Option 4

 * Bigmama’s
 * Sources
 * Classic African American Children’s Literature (pdf from class) Bigmamma's (Review)  A Picture is Worth One Thousand Words: Representations of African American Women in Children’s Picture Books

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