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Record W4238111158 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2013.0835

Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt (review)

2013· article· en· W4238111158 on OpenAlex
Karen Coats

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature: history, themes, analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeArtSensibilityGirlArt historyStyle (visual arts)PsychoanalysisHistoryLiteraturePsychology

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt Karen Coats Britt, Fanny Jane, the Fox & Me; tr. from French by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou ; illus. by Isabelle Arsenault. Groundwood, 2013 101p ISBN 978-1-55498-360-5 $19.95 R* Gr. 5-8 Combining picture-book size and style with graphic-novel narrative sensibility, this elegant Canadian import chronicles the experiences of Hélène, a sensitive junior-high outcast shunned and bullied by girls who were once her friends. She takes refuge in her reading of Jane Eyre, hoping that she, like Jane, can emerge out of difficult circumstances into a slender, wise woman whom people admire. For now, though, the mean girls tease her for being fat, a judgment that is belied by both the illustrations as well as by her doctor in the end, but one that she takes to heart as she looks in the mirror and tries on bathing suits for the class camping trip. The camping trip lives up to all of her fears at first, as she bunks with the other social outcasts and gets tormented by the mean girls, but two nice things do happen: she has a transformative encounter with a fox, and a new girl named Géraldine rejects the mean girls and becomes her friend. Hélène’s emotional tangle is given poignant expression through Arsenault’s pitch-perfect mixed-media art; thin pencil-lined figures picked out against smudgy neutral grays and muted sepia tones highlight both the sharp-edged sources and limned echoes of Hélène’s everyday sadness, while the depictions of her imagined scenes from Jane Eyre are cleaner and more colorful, bringing in reds and greens, and even on occasion exploding into luminous watercolor landscapes. The contrast is striking and sets up the almost mystical tone of the encounter with the fox, who stands out in the red previously reserved for Hélène’s imaginary connection with Jane. The gradual emergence, accompanied by a progressively friendlier font style, into the full-color bloom of the final spread, assures readers that Hélène’s inner and outer worlds have been reconciled into a happier and more hopeful place. Hélène’s story is sweetly comforting and compelling on its own merits, and, as with Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (BCCB 1/08), the form in which it is presented also has value for those interested in analyzing and understanding the full aesthetic potential of the graphic-novel format in storytelling. Copyright © 2013 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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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), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.455
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.004
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0050.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.192
Teacher spread0.183 · 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