<p>Bravo or should I say Brava to Disney for Avalon High. As you may know Avalon High is a young adult novel by Meg Cabot, published in 2005. It reached number 3 on the New York Times children's best sellers list in January 2006. I was flabergasted that Disney of all marketers would take this on and allow a girl in one of their movies to be the hero vs. heroine, King Arthur. It was magnificent! After decades of genre films like Snow White, Bambi, Cinderella etc, where the mother dies and the papa figure brings up a daughter who is saved by a Prince, to actually celebrate the female role as the King himself---I can't stop fussing...</p>
<p>I watched its TV debut this week with my twelve year old, rising 8th grader who will be gearing up to apply to prep schools, and she was visibly shaken and perplexed, how to make sense of the traditional triangle of Queen Guinivere, Lancelot and King Arthur with this new twist of a plot, but in the end how exhilarating!</p>
<p>The prep schools made a wise decision back in the 70's, some like DA not till the 90's to go coed. Let's hope the day of the damsel in distress is behind us once and for all and that the reign of King Arthur as a female is just starting...Go Hillary!...Go all you ladies at the helm of these notable bastions of education and their female prodigy!</p>