Each chapter begins with “Introduction.”
Introduction.
Acknowledgements.
Dedication.
1. In the Beginning: Recognizing diversity in children's and adolescent literature.
“Learning to Speak Again.”
Theory.
Barbara Lehman: Religious Representation in Children's Literature: Disclosure through Character, Perspective, and Authority.
Christian Knoeller: “Not One Voice, But Many”: Reading Contemporary Native American Writers.
April Komenaka: Transforming “The Crane Wife”; Western Readings and Renderings of the Tsuru-Nyobo.
Margaret Chang: Daydreams of Cathay: Images of China in Modern American Children's Books.
Nancy Tolson: The Black Aesthetic within Black Children's Literature.
Jill P. May: Racial Complexities and Linguistic Secrets: Bridging the Codes of Children's Classics.
Practice.
Charles Elster: The Legend of the Golem in Children's Literature: Jewish and Universal Themes.
Olha Tsarkovska: Picture Books and ESL Students: Theoretical and Practical Implications for Elementary School Classroom Teachers.
Trudy Nelson: Building Empathy and Character: Children Reading and Responding to Literature.
Final Note: Searching for Material to Share.
2. Toward a New Perspective: Learning to interpret culturally diverse literature.
“Linguists Gather in the American West.”
Shauna Bigham: African-American Short Stories and the Oral Tradition.
Richard Van Dongen: Reading Literature Multiculturally: A Stance to Enhance Reading of Some Hispanic Children's Literature.
Amanda Cockrell: When Coyote Leaves the Res: Incarnations of the Trickster from Wile E. To LeGuin.
Lingyan Yang and Zhihui Fang: Rainbow Literature, Rainbow Children, Rainbow Cultures and Rainbow Histories: The Chinese and Chinese American Adolescent Heroines in Laurence Yep's Immigrant Novels and Historical Novels.
Cecily D. Cobb: “If You Give a Nigger an Inch, They Will Take an Ell”: The Role of Education in Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken.
Paula Connolly: Telling Secrets and Possibilities of Flight in I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This.
Violet Harris: The Cheetah Girls Series: Multiracial Identity, Pop Culture and Consumerism.
Practice.
Larry Sipe and Pat Daley: Story-reading, Story-making, Story-Telling: Urban African-American Kindergartners Respond to Culturally Relevant Picturebooks.
Jiening Ruan: Responding to Chinese Children's Literature: Cultural Identity and Literary Responses.
Final Note: Keeping Current.
3. Defining Cultural Uniqueness: Agency in the critique of children's and adolescent literature.
“What History Asks.”
Theory.
Darwin L. Henderson: Authenticity and Accuracy: The Continuing Debate.
Sarah Mahurt: The Aesthetics of Caribbean Children's Literature.
Alisa Clapp-Intyre: The Power of Womenm, the Power of Teens: Re-visioning Gender and Age in the Nancy Drew And Hardy Boys Mystery Series.
C. Beth Burch: Teaching Holocaust Literature.
Joan Glazer: The Mill Girls in Fiction: Exploited Children or Independent Young Women?
Junko Yokota and Ann Bates: Asian American Literature: Voices and Images of Authenticity.
Practice.
Eve Tal: Walking the Tightrope: A Consideration of Problems and Solutions in Adapting from the Oral Tradition.
Lois Campbell: Students' Construction of Knowledge about Native Americans with Children's Literature.
Leslie Murrill: Do Young Children Need Happy Endings?
Final Note: Continuing Our Conversations.
