Books are sometimes windows offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined familiar or strange.
Books are mirrors windows and sliding glass doors.
An article by rudine sims bishop children s literature scholar and recipient of the coretta scott king virginia hamilton award for lifetime achievement expands this concept even further.
Rudine simms bishop coined the terms in her 1990 article mirrors windows and sliding glass doors originally published in the ohio state university perspectives.
In the essay dr.
It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published.
Choosing and using books for the classroom.
These windows are also sliding glass doors and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author.
The stonewall book awards has categories for children and youth including non fiction 1 dr.