Italie, Leanne. "Outrage Explodes Over Rhyming 'Diet' Picture Book ." www.msnbc.com. MSNBC, 2 Sept. 2011. Web. 13 Oct. 2011.
This article talks about a children’s picture book being about dieting. “Maggie Goes on a Diet” has been in the middle of controversy because it depicts a young overweight girl that goes on a diet and turns into a soccer star and becomes popular.
This article will go well with my topic to use for an example. This is the type of pressure children and teens alike get not only from their peers, but now from a picture book. It would have not been so outrageous if they would have had the girl not lose so much weight and if the author wouldn’t have made her more popular. The author states that he only want to encourage kids to be healthy, but showing children that skinny=popular is not something they should be learning. Girls need to learn that their body is beautiful and their weight is not important.
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