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Direct linkEnciso, Patricia; Wolf, Shelby A.; Coats, Karen; Jenkins, Christine – Reading Research Quarterly, 2010
This review analyzes three new texts about the history and meaning of children's literature: Leonard Marcus's "Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature"; Perry Nodelman's "The Hidden Adult: Defining Children's Literature"; and Rudine Sims Bishop's "Free Within Ourselves: The Development…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, African American Literature, History, Adults
Brooks, Wanda – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
This article describes a qualitative research study that explored how a middle school case-study class read and responded to "culturally conscious" African American children's books (Sims, 1982, p. 49). First, I relied on literary analyses conducted mainly by Sims (1982) and Harris (1995) to identify African American textual features contained in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Books, Childrens Literature, Theories
