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Celebrating Cuentos: Promoting Latino Children's Literature and Literacy in Classrooms and Libraries
More effectively meet the diverse literacy needs of the growing Latino population by learning how to evaluate and select quality Latino children's literature.
Latinos are the fastest growing and largest ethnic minority in the United States. The number of Latino children is at a historic high. As a result, librarians and teachers in the United States must know how to meet the informational, cultural, and traditional literacy needs of this student demographic group. An ideal way to overcome this challenge is by providing culturally accurate and authentic children's literature that represents the diversity of the Latino cultures.
Much more than simply a topical bibliography, this book details both historical and current practices in educating Latino children; explains why having quality Latino children's literature in classrooms and libraries is necessary for the ethnic identity development of Latino children; and offers a historical overview of Latino children's literature in America. Web resources of interest to educators working with Latino children are also included.
Latinos are the fastest growing and largest ethnic minority in the United States. The number of Latino children is at a historic high. As a result, librarians and teachers in the United States must know how to meet the informational, cultural, and traditional literacy needs of this student demographic group. An ideal way to overcome this challenge is by providing culturally accurate and authentic children's literature that represents the diversity of the Latino cultures.
Much more than simply a topical bibliography, this book details both historical and current practices in educating Latino children; explains why having quality Latino children's literature in classrooms and libraries is necessary for the ethnic identity development of Latino children; and offers a historical overview of Latino children's literature in America. Web resources of interest to educators working with Latino children are also included.
408 pages, Hardcover
First published November 18, 2010
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March 30, 2011
Since I conduct Bilingual Story Times, I am always looking out for ways to make my program better for my customers. Mostly focused on the chapters that were about story time and musical time.
http://www.reflectionpress.com/ - Maya Christina Gonzalez blog
from: Embracing the World's Reflections: The Creative Expressions of Maya Christina Gonzalez, by Dr. Jamie Campbell Naidoo
"As an adult I can reflect back and see that I was really looking for my face in my coloring I would go to that blank page in teh back or the front of these books and draw my own big face fight in where it belonged. When we see ourselves, something fundamental happens inside of us" (31).
"If children paid attention to the majority of books available, the world would be straight, white and male" (32).
"There are more gender variant children born in this country than there are Jews. What are we afraid of? I believe the fear of trans is rooted in a cultural misogyny. If we take down the social constructs of gender, we will really change a lot of things" (33).
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"Too often, the U.S. media do not represent "the multicolored fibers of the Latino cultures." Instead, a "Latin look" of brown skin and dark hair and eyes.. These distorted and limited recreations of the Latino experience are also present in the children's books" (59).
http://www.reflectionpress.com/ - Maya Christina Gonzalez blog
from: Embracing the World's Reflections: The Creative Expressions of Maya Christina Gonzalez, by Dr. Jamie Campbell Naidoo
"As an adult I can reflect back and see that I was really looking for my face in my coloring I would go to that blank page in teh back or the front of these books and draw my own big face fight in where it belonged. When we see ourselves, something fundamental happens inside of us" (31).
"If children paid attention to the majority of books available, the world would be straight, white and male" (32).
"There are more gender variant children born in this country than there are Jews. What are we afraid of? I believe the fear of trans is rooted in a cultural misogyny. If we take down the social constructs of gender, we will really change a lot of things" (33).
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"Too often, the U.S. media do not represent "the multicolored fibers of the Latino cultures." Instead, a "Latin look" of brown skin and dark hair and eyes.. These distorted and limited recreations of the Latino experience are also present in the children's books" (59).
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December 9, 2024
Lots of good information here.
It is geared toward librarians, but educators and parents and people who working publishing might all find interest.
I found some familiar names, but lots of new ones as well. I may want to revisit it in a few years.
It is geared toward librarians, but educators and parents and people who working publishing might all find interest.
I found some familiar names, but lots of new ones as well. I may want to revisit it in a few years.
August 30, 2016
Great resource; I took lots of notes. Love that it goes into such detail about the history of Latino children's lit; its current state, and evaluation of it. Bibliography and resource list are to die for.
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