Religious representation in children's literature: disclosure through character, perspective, and authority -- "Not one voice, but many": reading contemporary Native American writers -- Transforming "The crane wife": Western readings and renderings of "Tsuru-Nyobo" -- Daydreams of Cathay: images of China in modern American children's books -- The Black aesthetic within Black children's literature -- Linguistic secrets: subjective attitudes about race and gender in children's literature -- The legend of the Golem in popular culture and children's literature -- Picture books and ESL students: theoretical and practical implications for elementary school classroom teachers -- Building empathy and character: children reading and responding to literature -- Final note: Searching for materials to share -- African American short stories and the oral tradition -- Reading literature multiculturally: a stance to enhance reading of some Hispanic children's literature -- When cayote leaves the Res: incarnations of the trickster from Wile E. to Le Guin -- Rainbow lierature, rainbow children, rainbow cultures, and rainbow histories: the Chinese and Chinese American adolescent heroines in Laurence Yep's selected novels -- "If you give a Nigger an inch, they will take an Ell": the role of education in Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle be Unbroken -- Telling secrets and the Possibilites of Fight in I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This -- The Cheetah Girls series: multiracial identity, pop culture, and consumerism -- Story-reading, Story-making, story-telling: urban African American kindergartners respond to culturally relevant picture books -- Responding to Chinese children's literature: cultural identity and literary responses -- Final note: Keeping current -- Authencity and accuracy: the continuing debate -- The aesthetics of Caribbean children's literature -- The power of women, the power of teens: revisioning gender and age in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery series -- Teaching holocaust literature -- The Mill girls in fiction: exploited children or independent young women? -- Asian Americn literature: voices and images of authenticity -- Walking the tightrope: a consideration of problems and solutions in adapting stories from the oral tradition.
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