Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 2
COPYRIGHT......Page 3
PERMISSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 8
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD......Page 12
FOREWORD......Page 14
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 18
INTRODUCTION: Moistening the Desert Landscapes......Page 20
PART I A “Call-and-Response” Conversation......Page 28
1 (UN)HAPPILY EVER AFTER: Fairy Tale Morals, Moralities, and Heterosexism in Children’s Texts......Page 30
2 “LIFE FOR ME AIN’T BEEN NO CRYSTAL STAIR”: Readin’, Writin’, and Parental (il)Literacy in African American Children’s Books......Page 60
3 “STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES”: Airbrushing the Ugliest of Ugly in African American Children’s Books......Page 82
4 NAPPY EDGES AND GOLDY LOCKS: African American Daughters and the Politics of Hair......Page 106
5 ROOTS THAT GO BEYOND BIG HAIR AND A BAD HAIR DAY: Nappy Hair Pieces......Page 126
6 DON’T CONDEMN WHITE TEACHER OVER: NAPPY HAIR (AN EDITORIAL)......Page 140
7 ANGELS OF COLOR: Divinely inspired or Socially Constructed?......Page 146
8 “DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?”: Becoming Better Adults through Toni Morrison’s The Big Box and The Book of Mean People......Page 162
PART II Dialoguing Reviews......Page 186
9 REVIEWS OF ANNE SCHRAFF’S: LOST AND FOUND......Page 188
10 REVIEWS OF ANNE SCHRAFF’S: A MATTER OF TRUST......Page 192
11 REVIEWS OF ANNE SCHRAFF’S: UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN......Page 196
12 REVIEW OF ELIZA A. COMODROMOS’S: TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE BLUFORD SERIES......Page 200
13 REVIEW OF WALTER DEAN MYERS’S THE BEAST......Page 204
14 REVIEWS OF ANGELA JOHNSON’S THE FIRST PART LAST......Page 206
15 REVIEWS OF KELLY MCWILLIAMS’S DOORMAT......Page 210
16 RESPONSE TO “DIALOGUING REVIEWS”: Parents, It’s 10:00—Do you Know What Your Children are Reading?......Page 214
PART III Extending Discourses......Page 222
17 UNLOCKING THE BEAUTY OF HAIR: A Review of Joyce Carol Thomas’s Crowning Glory......Page 224
18 NAPPY HAPPY: A Review of bell hooks’s Happy to Be Nappy......Page 230
19 “SHAKE IT TO THE ONE THAT YOU LOVE THE BEST”: A Review of Juba This & Juba That......Page 238
20 RESPONSE TO “EXTENDING DISCOURSES”......Page 244
AFTERWORD......Page 248
NOTES......Page 252
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS......Page 280
WORKS CITED......Page 282
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND CULTURE......Page 296
INDEX......Page 298