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Connecting Cultures: A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children is a comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children. This valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles--including:

• fiction,
• folktales,
• poetry, and
• song books--that focus on diverse cultural groups.

The selected titles, published between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.

Review

“An excellent tool for readers' advisory and collection building.”–School Library Journal;>

“This is an excellent collection development tool for librarians as well as a useful research tool for library science students and faculty. The book would also serve well as a reader's advisory and an enhancement to school curricula that emphasize diversity and multiculturalism. Highly Recommended.”–The Book Report;>

“A fine library reference or a key to building a multicultural collection.”–Midwest Book Review;>

“A thorough and well-organized update of the authors' previous annotated bibliograpny titled This Land is Our Land: A guide to multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults....This is an excellent collection development tool for librarians as well as a useful research tool for library science students and faculty. The book would also serve well as a reader advisory and an enhancement to school curricula that emphasize diversity and multiculturalism. Highly Recommended.”–Library Talk;>

“While the main audience will be librarians, teachers, and parents, scholars and researchers seeking insights into multicultural literature development will also find this title handy. It is a solid source for collection development and book talking ideas.”–American Refernce Books Annual;>

“Highly recommended for school and public librarians trying to build their multicultural collections.”–Blanche Woolls & David Loertscher (GaleGroup.com);>

Product Description

Celebrating the wealth of multicultural literature recently published for children and young adults, this valuable resource examines the fiction, oral tradition, and poetry from four major ethnic groups in the United States. Each of these genres is considered in turn for the literature dealing with African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native-American Indians. Taking up where their earlier volume This Land is Our Land left off, Helbig and Perkins have teamed up once again to identify and expertly evaluate more than 500 multicultural books published from 1994 through 1999. Both considered authorities in the field of children's literature, the two of them personally selected, read, and evaluated all the books included here. Their insightful annotations help readers carefully consider both literary standards such as plot development, characterization, and style, as well as cultural values as they are represented in these cited works. Each entry also indicates the suggested age and grade level appropriateness of the work.

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