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Promoting a global community through multicultural children's literature
Promoting a global community through multicultural children's literature Author:Stanley F. Steiner Acceptance, respect, and love can be learned at young ages, as can bigotry, racism, and hatred. Encourage the former and discourage the latter by regularly referring to this invaluable tool for developing socially conscious students. More than 800 titles, (single volume or series) are described , creating an excellent starting point for buildi... more »ng a compelling multicultural book collection. Annotated titles do everything from serving as eye-openers to the diversity of world cultures to acting as salves for racial and cultural tensions in one's own classroom or community. Organized by broad subject and then again ny book type (e.g., picture books, fiction, nonfiction), this guide also offers complete author and title indexes. More than 100 interdisciplinary application strategies for titles range from reading aloud with follow-up discussions to social activism.