DCU is partnering with Children’s Books Ireland on its BOLD GIRLS project

Dublin City University is delighted to be partnering Children’s Books Ireland on its BOLD GIRLS project.

Speaking about the project, Jenny Murray, acting director of CBI, said that ‘the BOLD GIRLS project aims is to break down societal barriers and to instil confidence in girls and young women by showing them female characters in children’s books with agency, power and opinions’.

As part of the BOLD GIRLS project, Dublin City University is working with CBI on the production of a BOLD GIRLS Resource Pack, which will be free to download from CBI’s website (www.childrensbooksireland.ie).

Aimed at the country’s primary and post-primary schoolchildren, and to support teachers in identifying books with strong female protagonists, the BOLD GIRLS Resource Pack will be launched in March of this year.

The resource pack will focus on twenty books from the BOLD GIRLS Reading Guide, and twelve books from the Creative Europe G-BOOK project (‘Gender Identity: Child Readers and Library Collections’).

According to Dr Keith O’Sullivan, associate professor in the School of English and director of the Centre for Children’s Literature and Culture, ‘through age-appropriate questions and activities, it is hoped that the resource pack will encourage readers to think about the position of women and girls in society’.