Standard for Success. Resolution of Problems. Role of Women. Look for inaccuracy and inappropriateness in the depiction of other cultures. No author can be entirely objective.
All authors write from a cultural as well as from a personal context.
Children s books in the past have traditionally come from authors who were white and who were members of the middle class, with one result being that a single ethnocentric perspective has dominated children s literature in the United States. A word is loaded when it has offensive overtones. Look for sexist language and adjectives that exclude or in any way demean girls or women. Look for use of the male pronoun to refer to both males and females. They therefore reflected a white point of view.