Exploring Culturally Diverse Literature for Children and Adolescents: Learning to Listen in New Ways Book

Pt. 1	In the beginning : recognizing diversity in children's and adolescent literature	1
1	Religious representation in children's literature : disclosure through character, perspective, and authority	11
2	"Not one voice, but many" : reading contemporary Native American writers	22
3	Transforming "the crane wife" : western readings and renderings of "tsuru-nyobo"	42
4	Daydreams of Cathay : images of China in modern American children's books	54
5	The black aesthetic within black children's literature	65
6	Linguistic secrets : subjective attitudes about race and gender in children's literature	79
7	The legend of the golem in popular culture and children's literature	90
8	Picture books and ESL students : theoretical and practical implications for elementary school classroom teachers	108
9	Building empathy and character : children reading and responding to literature	118
	Final note : searching for materials to share	133
Pt. 2	Toward a new perspective : learning to interpret culturally diverse literature	137
10	African American short stories and the oral tradition	146
11	Reading literature multiculturally : a stance to enhance reading of some hispanic children's literature	157
12	When coyote leaves the res : incarnations of the trickster from Wile E. to Le Guin	168
13	Rainbow literature, rainbow children, rainbow cultures, and rainbow histories : the Chinese and Chinese American adolescent heroines in Laurence Yep's selected novels	178
14	"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	196
15	Telling secrets and the possibilities of flight in I hadn't meant to tell you this	205
16	The Cheetah Girls series : multiracial identity, pop culture, and consumerism	216
17	Story-reading, story-making, story-telling : urban African American kindergartners respond to culturally relevant picture books	229
18	Responding to Chinese children's literature : cultural identity and literary responses	243
	Final note : keeping current	252
Pt. 3	Defining cultural uniqueness : agency in the critique of children's and adolescent literature	255
19	Authenticity and accuracy : the continuing dabate	266
20	The aesthetics of Caribbean children's literature	277
21	The power of women, the power of teens : revisioning gender and age in the nancy drew and hardy boys mystery series	286
22	Teaching holocaust literature	300
23	The Mill Girls in fiction : exploited children or independent young women?	314
24	Asian American literature : voices and images of authenticity	323
25	Walking the tightrope : a consideration of problems and solutions in adapting stories from the oral tradition	336
26	Students' construction of knowledge about native Americans through children's literature	345
27	Do young readers need happy endings?	356
	Final note : continuing our conversations	369