Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America Middlefield Amish Novel -- Hopeful Monsters received Britain's

-- Hopeful Monsters received Britain's prestigious Whitbread Award in 1990

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one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience

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Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America Middlefield Amish Novel -- Hopeful Monsters received Britain'sJo B. Paoletti's journey through the history of children's clothing began when she posed the question, When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in blue? To uncover the answer, she looks at advertising, catalogs, dolls, baby books, mommy blogs and discussion forums, and other popular media to examine the surprising shifts in attitudes toward color as a mark of gender in American children's clothing. She chronicles the decline of the white