#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 14: a child reading on #YoungReadersDay
#FrançoisTruffaut explores L'enfant sauvage (1970) right when the idea of the noble savage seemed to lock on with counterculture. With #Truffaut as Victor's tutor Itard in front of the camera, directly guiding amateur child actor (and “gipsy”) Cargol, the film not only reimagines Victor's fate, but reenacts Western presumed enlightenment over The Other ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/lenfant-sauvage-1970
It's #YoungReadersDay & this handy guide by @alalibrary & Pat R Scales sets out to help #educators choose & discuss books for the classroom. Comes with a foreword by Judy Blume, read-alike lists & discussion ideas
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1851570306