Margarita Engle’s compelling free-verse novel is about learning a new culture, loneliness, a love of animals and the power of friendships. Her narrative is spare in details, yet she paints big pictures with her words and evokes rich visual images. It is truly a novel written straight from ...
An examination of over 200 multicultural children's books indicated that about 50 of them contained identifiable literacy images. The books can be charted for themes (such as family; literacy as a valued priority; learning a second language; cultural connections among story purpose, story tellers,...
There is also a much smaller children’s bedroom on the rooftop that doubles as storage space. My buddy, Takounta Koutantia, slides down feet first into a sleeping fetus position. I can’t see anything important there, at least to my eyes, no cupboards or shelves, just a thin layer of...
Unfortunately, not all children see themselves in children’s literature or identify with the characters, and sometimes characters portray negative images and stereotypes (Al-Hazza & Bucher, 2008). Literature might demonstrate a superficial level of culture or tokenism. It is essential teacher educator...
We are Kazoom Kids Books, publisher of multicultural interactive ebooks for children ages 5 – 8. We fill the gap for parents of color struggling to find quality children’s books that depict the images, stories and experiences of their kids, culture and community. ...
1. Select two (2) texts from two different literature classes you have taken--British, American, "multicultural," graphic novel, Children's/ Young Adult li... According to Ramon Saldivar, ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him is a classic text ofChicano literature that was written "at the...
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s task to reconstruct this vessel, which is done through various ethical, spiritual, intellectual and aesthetic acts that re-establish values in our world,” she says. “By making images that contribute to this “Tikkun” I am participating in my own small way in this process of “rep...
The increasing diversity in modern classrooms necessitates that teacher education programmes equip pre-service teachers with skills to create equitable and
children's books in the U.S. In this profile, she discusses the way contemporary Latino/a children's literature, in particular her own, intervenes in a history of exclusion in children's publishing and intervenes in the cycle of stereotypical representations in children's stories about Latinos...