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Record W1082300525 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2015.0443

Prickly Jenny by Sibylle Delacroix (review)

2015· article· en· W1082300525 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jeannette Hulick

Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicThemes in Literature Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArt historyArtFeelingVisual artsPsychology

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Prickly Jenny by Sibylle Delacroix Jeannette Hulick Delacroix, Sibylle Prickly Jenny; tr. from the French by Karen Li; written and illus. by Sibylle Delacroix. Owlkids, 2015 24p ISBN 978-1-77147-129-9 $16.95R 2-4 yrs Jenny is having a bad day from the get-go (“Jenny doesn’t say good morning because, really, what’s so good about it?”), and no amount of indulgence or attempts at fun (including a trip to the fair and ice cream for dinner) will cure her grumpiness. Parents will recognize the contrary developmental stage at the heart of this short and simple story, and Delacroix’s pithy acknowledgment of a common toddler/ preschooler problem (“Jenny doesn’t know what she wants today”) is spot-on. Particularly refreshing is Delacroix’s declaration that “Jenny is feeling out of sorts, but she doesn’t want to talk about it. She just wants to be loved.” Short lines of text in a blocky blue font are printed on a white background on the verso, while the recto features a full-page, fuzzy-edged illustration in calm tones against a neutral background. The clean layout of the book lets the minimal text and the depictions of Jenny (in various states of peevishness) take center stage. The gingery-pigtailed, round-headed Jenny is amusingly defiant as she does handstands instead of napping, and then touchingly sorrowful as she cries at the bedroom door (after telling Mommy “Leave me alone!”). The small trim size makes this import (French author, title first published in French in Canada) more effective as a one-on-one share than as a group readaloud, but it will find plenty of use as a lapsit story; in fact, parents who find it useful with their preschoolers may want to pull it out again to share with their future middle-schoolers, after a particularly difficult day. Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.355
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0040.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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