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Merge Alanna of Trebond to Song of the Lioness

This merge would be a logical one to make, and a cleanup of the pages could happen at the same time. Much as I love these books, they're not notable enough to justify two separate pages which effectively both summarise the quartet. Deborah-jl _Talk 04:44, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Slight objection: I would have agreed, but I think it could be expanded if written to a higher standard of quality. I would also have it redirected to Alanna, because she does marry and takes up a new surname. —Mirlen 20:54, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah... I agree. I don't think it makes sense to have two seperate pages. Waaaay too confusing.

Approve: the articles are very, very similar. Lioness713 14:23, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to merge

I would like to propose merging this article with Category:The Song of the Lioness :) As to the above merge suggestion, I'm planning to create master pages for all characters (one for Tortallan characters spanning several books and another for series-specific characters not showing up in other series but showing up throughout one series). Comments, suggestions? I'm working on this set of articles, hee. If no one's against it, I'll be merging sometime. -- Angela 15:24, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

no advertisements

I removed what appeared to me to be an advertisement (and one that was spelled incorrectly to boot. Wikipedia purports to be a scholarly encyclopedia, we don't reccomend books to people. It'd be just fine if you put a note about what type of book it is in the body of the article, though. :) Banaticus (talk) 23:52, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Plans to Add and Expand

As a group, we have decided to work on The Song of the Lioness series written by Tamora Pierce. Our goal is to fix up the tone in the plot summary and do some minor copy edits to that as well as go and add the themes of the novels and series as a whole. We will also be looking into the research done on the influences this series/author has had on modern literature. The gender issues she chooses to tackle in the novel and what this means for YA fiction today. We will also do a reception to the series and include any awards it might have won.

Citations: Battis, Jes. "Transgendered Magic: The Radical Performance Of The Young Wizard In YA Literature." The Looking Glass, vol 10, no. 1, 2006,.

Sahn, Sarah F. "Decolonizing Childhood: Coming Of Age In Tamora Pierce’S Fantastic Empire." Children's Literature, vol 44, no. 1, 2016, pp. 147-171. Johns Hopkins University Press, doi:10.1353/chl.2016.0012.

Devereaux, Elizabeth. "CHILDREN's BOOKS; Woman Warrior." Nytimes.Com, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/books/children-s-books-woman-warrior.html.

Gilligan, James R. "First Opinion: Of Dragons And Genders: An Ancient Hero For The Twenty-First Century." First Opinions, Second Reactions, vol 1, no. 3, 2009, p. 2. Perdue, http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=fosr.

Schmidt, Pauline Skowron, et al. “Carpe Librum: Seize the (YA) Book: Tough Talk: Books about Bullying.” The English Journal, vol. 103, no. 5, 2014, pp. 83–85. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24484253.

Writer, Guest. “Lessons in Rereading: Tamora Pierce's 'Song of the Lioness'.” Literally, Darling, 1 Aug. 2013, www.literallydarling.com/blog/2013/08/01/lessons-in-rereading-tamora-pierce/.

Kunzel, Bonnie, and Susan Fichtelberg. Tamora Pierce. Greenwood Press, 2007.Lhovey2 (talk) 16:04, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What still needs to be done?

Some things that could still be done for this article would be to expand even further on the themes of the series. It was one of those things where time constraints made the group limit which themes we picked and how much we could really discuss the theme as well as ensuring we didn't do any of our own analyzing. I think our biggest weakness is probably just the tone it doesn't perfectly line up in quite the way we were hoping despite our revisions and group working through it. It was really just a matter of each of us have different writing styles that affect how we wrote our pieces. Lhovey2 (talk) 17:30, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man to here

The Woman Who Rides Like a Man doesn't appear to meet WP:NBOOK or WP:GNG, but would be useful as a merge/redirect here. Boleyn (talk) 18:42, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Found several academic sources that mention the book, but I haven't read them in depth to know if they spend significant time on this novel versus others in the series. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 02:41, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]