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Diamonds in the rough: the search for socially responsible, multicultural children's literature.(culture)
Way back in the day when the pickings were slimmer than slim, maybe, just maybe, enjoying a book like The Five Chinese Brothers (first published in 1938) was alright. But today, and yesterday (and even the day before that!), any book that opens, "Once upon a time there were five Chinese brothers and they all looked exactly alike" is completely unacceptable. Let alone the fact that the story was written by a white author and a white illustrator; sharing this piece with children as a fun and magical, unproblematic book is poor guidance, to say the least.
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And yet titles like this one continue to be celebrated by nostalgic white ...
- Multicultural children enjoy book fair at Convention Center
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The M.J. McCollum November 22, 1996 700+ words
M.J. McCollum Philadelphia Tribune, The 11-22-1996 Multicultural children enjoy book fair at Convention Center. It was a family affair at the Multicultural Children's Book Fair held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center last Saturday...
- PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS TO HOST MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 8, 1995 700+ words
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Philadelphia Daily News will be hosting its first Multicultural Children's Book Fair on Saturday, November 11, from 1 to 4 p.m. The book fair, co-sponsored by The Literary, an organization...
- Respond to Stories with Stories: Teachers Discuss Multicultural Children's...
- Magazine article from: Childhood Education Cellitti, Anarella March 22, 2002 700+ words
RESPOND TO STORIES WITH STORIES: Teachers Discuss Multicultural Children's Literature. J. Mathis. Social Studies, 2001, 4(6), 155-160. Mathis describes how a literature discussion group...
- Promoting a global community through multicultural children's literature....
- Magazine article from: Teacher Librarian Steiner, Stanley February 1, 2002 700+ words
Annotated bibliography of more than 800 titles appropriate for Grades K-8. Organized by subject and then subdivided into book type (e.g. picture books, fiction and non-fiction), each annotation includes a grade recommendation and short synopsis of the story or how the resource can be used. Each
- Jump at the Sun publishes multicultural children's books.
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) July 29, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Nancy Pate "Jump at the sun." That's what Eatonville, Fla., writer Zora Neale Hurston remembers her mother telling her as a child, encouraging her to aim high as she reached for her dreams. "It's a phrase that sticks in your mind," says children's book author and editor Andrea Davis
- Respond to Stories with Stories: Teachers Discuss Multicultural Children' s...
- Magazine article from: The Social Studies MATHIS, JANELLE B. July 1, 2001 700+ words
Stories help us construct our selves, who used to be one way and are now another; stories help to make sense of, evaluate, and integrate the tensions inherent in experience: the past with the present, the fictional with the "real," the official with the unofficial, the personal with the
- Books from parallel cultures: celebrating the Americas. (multicultural...
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Bishop, Rudine Sims May 1, 1995 700+ words
If you are searching for a poetry anthology that reflects the spirit of multiculturalism within the United States, try Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art (Hyperion), edited by Nora Panzer, and illustrated with paintings, sculpture, photographs, and other works of art from the National Museum of
- A fire bell in the night. (multicultural children's literature)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Silvey, Anita March 1, 1995 700+ words
In the summer of 1966, unbeknownst to me, I was about to find my profession. As a college student I was hired by the Parks Department in Fort Wayne, Indiana, my home town, to work in inner-city Fort Wayne. Since my duties included conducting a story hour, I frantically searched for and read books,
Source: HighBeam Research, Diamonds in the rough: the search for socially responsible,...