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24th August 2021
01:19pm BST

"I know this will make a lot of people unhappy, but one of the books is The Tiger Who Came to Tea... Judith Kerr is a wonderful author.
"However, it is reflective of a society that we need to think more closely about."
She questioned why the tiger was not female or gender neutral, and highlighted the "old fashioned, stereotypical" ending in which the father comes home from work and "saves the day" by taking his family to a cafe. In response, a spokesperson for the Scottish Conservatives said that parents would be "bemused" by the claims. Related links: Scottish four-year-olds can change gender at school without parents’ consent Sean Lock fans call for The Tiger Who Came For A Pint to be published Britain’s strongest women on sexist abuse, stereotypes and competing with Eddie HallMeghan Gallacher, the Scottish Conservatives' spokesperson for children and young people, told The Daily Telegraph: "While attitudes understandably change over time, parents will be left bemused at some of these claims by Zero Tolerance.
"This sort of language is completely unhelpful as we try to educate children about much-loved publications from days gone by.
"There are far better ways for this publicly funded group to go about changing attitudes, rather than simply calling for these books to be banned from nurseries."
On Monday, Zero Tolerance published their findings of a "gender and diversity audit" of more than 3,000 books in 21 Scottish nurseries. Only three of the nurseries were found to have a majority of books that don't promote "gender stereotyping and/or other forms of inequality." The charity found that just five per cent of nursery books "portrayed male and/or female characters in non-stereotypical roles."Explore more on these topics: