Through the Eyes of Many Children: Multiculural Children's Literature

A well-known author designed this unique book for Education, English, Library Science, and Humanities classes that emphasize selecting, analyzing, evaluating, and using children's multicultural literature. It includes chapters on African American, Native American, Latino, Asian, Jewish, and Middle Eastern cultures. Each chapter follows a five-phase approach, developed by the author, to lead readers to an understanding of the literature. The five-phase approach begins with a broad introduction to the ancient myths, legends, and folktales of the culture. Phase II narrows the topic to the ancient myths, legends, and folktales from one specific area. Phase III studies the historical nonfiction selections such as biographies, autobiographies, and informational literature that encourage students to understand the early experiences of the social and political history of specific people. Phase IV is a study of historical fiction selections based on characters from specific cultures or on interactions between people and other cultures. Phase V is a study of contemporary literature including fiction, poetry, biography, and autobiography. For teachers of children's literature courses.