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From a writer's perspective: Recreating images of community in multicultural children's books

Brown, Monica (2008) From a writer's perspective: Recreating images of community in multicultural children's books. Language Arts, 85 (4). pp. 316-321. ISSN 1943-2402

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Abstract

The article presents profiles and perspectives from Monica Brown ,an author of bilingual children's books in the U.S. In this profile, she discusses the way contemporary Latino/a children's literature, in particular her own, intervenes in a history of exclusion in children's publishing and intervenes in the cycle of stereotypical representations in children's stories about Latinos/as. In her own perspectives, she writes about individuals who live between cultures and have a longing for remaining connected to both who are citizens of the world, whose reach is global and whose talent and intellectual and artistic contributions are boundless.

Item Type: Article
Publisher’s Statement: Copyright © 2008 National Council of Teachers of English.
Keywords: Brown, Monica; children's books; Children's literature; cultural education; culture; Hispanic American children; influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); multicultural education; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature; United States
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PZ Childrens literature
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status: Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit: College of Arts and Letters > English
Date Deposited: 16 Oct 2015 18:08
URI: http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/1024

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