Ratelle's work is highly lucid, elegantly written, and that it offers a source of intrigu ing examples and compassionate analyses and deconstructions of the animal-human divide in literary and cinematic classics ... . Amy Ratelle's valuable study compellingly excavates this historical development, but above all it demonstrates how literature and film for children have been and still are central to it. (Pia Maria Ahlback, Journal of Childrens Literature Research, Vol. 38, 2015)
Amy Ratelle is currently the Research Coordinator for the Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is also a Co-Investigator at Ryerson University's Children's Literature Archive. She has degrees in Film Studies from Ryerson University (BFA), and Carleton University (MA).