PART ONE: IN THE BEGINNING: RECOGNIZING DIVERSITY IN CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE: THEORY: Religious representation in children's literature: disclosure through character, perspective, and authority / Barbara A. Lehman "Not one voice, but many": reading contemporary Native American writers / Christian Knoeller Transforming "The crane wife": Western readings and renderings of "Tsuru-Nyobo" / April Komenaka Daydreams of Cathay: images of China in modern American children's books / Margaret Chang The Black aesthetic within Black children's literature / Nancy D. Tolson Linguistic secrets: subjective attitudes about race and gender in children's literature / Jill P. May PRACTICE: The legend of the Golem in popular culture and children's literature / Charles A. Elster Picture books and ESL students: theoretical and practical implications for elementary school classroom teachers / Olha Tsarykovska Building empathy and character: children reading and responding to literature / Trudy Nelson Final note: Searching for materials to share PART TWO: TOWARD A NEW PERSPECTIVE: LEARNING TO INTERPRET CULTURALLY DIVERSE LITERATURE: THEORY: African American short stories and the oral tradition / Shauna A. Bigham Reading literature multiculturally: a stance to enhance reading of some Hispanic children's literature / Richard Van Dongen When cayote leaves the Res: incarnations of the trickster from Wile E. to Le Guin / Amanda Cockrell Rainbow lierature, rainbow children, rainbow cultures, and rainbow histories: the Chinese and Chinese American adolescent heroines in Laurence Yep's selected novels / Lingyan Yang and Zhihui Fang "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 / Cicely Denean Cobb Telling secrets and the Possibilites of Fight in I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This / Paula T. Connolly The Cheetah Girls series: multiracial identity, pop culture, and consumerism / Violet J. Harris PRACTICE: Story-reading, Story-making, story-telling: urban African American kindergartners respond to culturally relevant picture books / Lawrence R. Sipe and Patricia A. Daley Responding to Chinese children's literature: cultural identity and literary responses / Jiening Ruan Final note: Keeping current PART THREE: DEFINING CULTURAL UNIQUENESS: AGENCY IN THE CRITIQUE OF CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE: THEORY: Authencity and accuracy: the continuing debate / Darwin Henderson The aesthetics of Caribbean children's literature / Sarah F. Mahurt The power of women, the power of teens: revisioning gender and age in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery series / Alisa Clapp-Itnyre Teaching holocaust literature / C. Beth Burch The Mill girls in fiction: exploited children or independent young women? / Joan I. Glazer Asian Americn literature: voices and images of authenticity / Junko Yokota and Ann Bates PRACTICE: Walking the tightrope: a consideration of problems and solutions in adapting stories from the oral tradition / Eve Tal
