This textbook is a comprehensive resource for teaching multicultural childrens literature. Providing foundational information on how and why to integrate diverse childrens literature into the classroom, this book presents a necessary historical perspective on cultural groups in the United States and context for how to teach childrens literature in a way that reflects and sustains students rich cultural backgrounds. The historical insights and context on diverse cultural groups at the heart of the book allow readers to deepen their understanding of why teaching about cultural diversity is necessary for effective and inclusive education. Part I offers foundational information on how to teach childrens literature in a diverse society, and Part II overviews pedagogy, resources, and guidance for teaching specific culturally and linguistically marginalized groups. Each chapter contains book recommendations, discussion questions, and additional resources for teachers.
With authentic strategies and crucial background knowledge embedded in each chapter, this text is essential reading for pre-service and in-service teachers and is ideal for courses in childrens literature, literacy methods instruction, and multicultural education.
Part I: Multicultural Education within Classroom Teaching
1. Creating
Spaces of Freedom: Multicultural Education and Childrens Literature
2.
Classroom Bibliotherapy to Support Social Emotional Learning: Increasing
Inclusion, Kindness, and Understanding of Diversity
3. Childrens Literature
in Immersive Technologies: Stories as Magical Spaces for Diversity and
Inclusion
4. Critical Equity Literacies for Moving Beyond State and National
Standards
5. Censorship: Book Challenges in Classrooms and School Libraries
Part II: Diverse and Marginalized Groups of People
6. Exploring Social Class
and Poverty through Childrens Literature
7. Reading the African American
Family: The Exploration of the Historical-Political and Sociocultural
Representation of African American Families in Picture Books
8. Southeast
Asian Refugee Childrens Literature: A Pedagogical Tool to Juxtapose War and
Migration
9. Celebrating Latinx Childrens Literature
10. Resilience,
Courage, Relocation: Deepening Understanding About Immigrants and Refugees
with Childrens Literature
11. A Critical Multicultural Call to Action:
Culturally Responsive Teaching for Indigenous Populations
12. Using LGBTQ+
Childrens Literature to Create a Sense of Belonging for All Within
Elementary Classrooms
13. Children/ YA Literature that Represents
Disabilities and the Special Child
14. Religious Diversity through Childrens
Literature
15. Supporting Children and Families Impacted by Incarceration
through Multicultural Childrens Literature
AnnMarie Alberton Gunn is an Associate Professor of Literacy at the University of South Florida, U.S.A.
Susan V. Bennett is an Associate Professor of Literacy at the University of South Florida, U.S.A.
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