I’ve been reading Typecasting of the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by Ewen and Ewen. Stuart Ewen is a professor of film and media studies at Hunter College. As a young man, in 1964 and early 1965, Ewen was a field secretary for the civil rights organization the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Elizabeth… Read More Typcasting: Remarking on the Content
title: Seven Pablos Author: Jorge Luján Illustrator: Chiara Carrer Translator: Mara Faye Lethem Date: Enchanted Lion Books; 2018 picture book ‘Pablo’ is a name that can mostly be found in Portugal, Spain and the countries they colonized around the world. In Seven Pablos, Jorge Luján and Chiara Carrer provide a brief glimpse into the lives… Read More review: Seven Pablos
Wait! Before you read this post, listen to this Hidden Brain podcast. http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=531587708:531669057 I’ve been thinking a lot about the visual representations in picture books lately. I think this began for me with Dr. Leslie Bow’s presentation,” Race as Species: Animals and other Asian Americans in Multicultural Children’s Literature” and it was really brought home… Read More Voices
We’ve released the 2017 We’re the People Reading List and it seems to be getting a warm reception. As always, you can download and print PDFs from that site. Please do so, and share them. We critically evaluate books during the year to find those that we can put in any young reader’s hands without… Read More I Am Not Your Bad Mood
A Fine Dessert becomes A Fine Mess If you’re active on Twitter, Facebook or some of the children’s literature blogs, you’re probably aware of the controversy involving A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat written by Emily Jenkins and Illustrated by Sophie Blackall. (Schwartz and Wade, 2015) I first became aware of… Read More The dessert, by the way, is BlackBerry Fool
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