Zilly: A Modern-Day Fable
Advertisers spend billions each year in an effort to influence what our children look like, how they act, the values they adopt and what they care about. They target the youngest children in the most unconscionable ways--connecting brand labels with happiness, narrow gender stereotypes with popularity, and parental purchase power with love.Zilly: A Modern-Day Fable,is a cautionary tale about loyalty and friendship in a world where conformity is king. With whimsy, courage, and a healthy dose of good sense, Zilly flips and flaps her way through the commercial land fray, peeks behind the glitsy falsehoods, and reminds us all what really matters in life. Kelly Parks Snider's brilliantly crafted story and website offers parents the most effective weapon in the battle against consumer culture's impact on our children: the sheer joy of being an original.Lyn Mikel Brown, is the author ofPackaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers Schemesand co-creator,Hardy Girls Healthy Women,is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health and well being of girls and women. Lyn Mikel Brown is professor of Education and Human Development and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She writes extensively on the relational life of girls; the influences of race, class and gender on girls' lives; girls' feelings of anger, self-knowledge, loss, hope and desire. --Lyn Mikel Brown, is the author ofPackaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers Schemesand co-creator,Hardy Girls Healthy Women,is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health and well being of girls and women.