The authors provide a multicultural feminist analysis of picture books for children by
looking at the illustrations and listening carefully to themes of oppression and resistance
in 33 picture books that focus on characters that are on the powerless side of
some powerless/powerful social dichotomy. The authors find many images that either
depict oppression or celebrate difference. They also find stories that extol the virtues
of cooperation among similarly oppressed others, cooperation among differently oppressed
others, and escape. They annotate the books to provide some sense of the
themes of oppression and resistance that appear in each of them.