While more diverse children's literature about youth activism is available than ever before,
popular picturebooks often perpetuate problematic tropes about the Civil Rights Movement …

lack of familiarity with gay families interferes with routine social interactions.[...] books that
may break from homonormative depictions often lack artistic and literary quality (Huskey …

Children's literature has long been what Nancy Larrick called an “all-white world”(1965).
According to the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), School of Education …

Abstract Using Alexis Jemal's conceptualization of transformative potential, founded on
Paulo Freire's idea of Critical Consciousness, a guiding transformative justice approach and …

This study investigates how 19 third-grade students developed their understandings of
enslavement during a six-week social studies inquiry. Using Teaching Tolerance's key …

Children's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a
defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its …

Difficult histories that may contradict national values are rarely taught in elementary schools.
This comparative study of two elementary educators examines their pedagogical …

ABSTRACT US libraries and classrooms are under siege by private and governmental
entities working to simultaneously ban/remove justice-focused literature and inundate these …

This article reports on a content analysis of human demographics represented across the
picture book collection in one university's teacher education laboratory. Drawing from an …

This article provides an overview of the importance of and the steps to undertaking a
classroom library diversity audit. It begins by situating the importance of the classroom …