Shattering the looking glass
Subtitle: challenge, risk, and controversy in children's literature
By: Susan Stewart Lehr, ed.
Contributors: Lehr, Susan S.
Publisher: Christopher-Gordon
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Norwood, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781933760124
Subjects: Children's literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I, At the crossroads; title: politics in children's literature. Politics in children's literature : colliding forces to shape the young minds / Belinda Louie; title: Children's literature in the classroom : essential or marginal? / Patricia L. Sharer, Evelyn B. Freeman, and Barbara A. Lehman; title: Literature and leadership : an interview with Shelley Harwayne / Susan S. Lehr; title: Sex, witchcraft, and diversity : censorship of children's books / Amy McClure; title: Bookseller extraordinaire : an interview with Frank Hodge / Susan S. Lehr; title: The status of reader response research : sustaining the reader's voice in challenging times / Marjorie R. Hancock; title: Part II, Issues of diversity and authentic voice. Some thoughts on writing about Native Americans for young readers / Joseph Bruchac; title: Embodiment and discourse in fiction for girls / Linda Wedwick and Roberta Seelinger Trites; title: African-American males at risk : a researcher's study of endangered males and literature that works / Alfred W. Tatum; title: The literary worlds of Bud, Kenny, Luther, and Christopher : finding books for me! / Christopher Paul Curtis; title: Feminist women writers of the 18th century : those barbarous and didactic women / Susan S. Lehr; title: Contemporary women writers : "undercutting the patriarchy" / Susan S. Lehr; title: Literature about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families / Linda Leonard Lamme; title: Living in Esperanza's world : writing about the Mexican-American experience / Pam Munoz Ryan; title: Part III, Currents of change. International literature : inviting students into the global community / Junko Yokota; title: Worlds apart : writing about the Taliban and the repression of women / Deborah Ellis; title: Visual images in children's picture books / Barbara Z. Kiefer; title: The Stinky Cheese Man and other fairly postmodern picture books for children / Lawrence R. Sipe and Caroline E. McGuire; title: Heroism in children's fantasy : secondary worlds worth visiting / Susan S. Lehr; title: On writing : one writer's perspective / Penny Colman; title: On poetry and the Middle East experience : an interview with Naomi Shihab Nye / Susan S. Lehr; title: Part IV, Voices from the field; title: issues of literature in the classroom. Bold new perspectives : issues in selecting and using nonfiction / Janice V. Kristo, Penny Colman, and Sandip Wilson; title: Pitfalls of using social studies texts exclusively : analyzing diversity and filling the gaps / Deborah L. Thompson; title: Books matter : literature strategies that work in middle school / Laura Robb; title: Evolution of a reader and a writer : an interview with Janet S. Wong / Barbara Chatton; title: Working in the school library : delights, dilemmas, and disasters / Linda N. McDowell; title: New teacher voices : snapshots from the trenches / Amy Dunbar ... [et al.].