Books As Mirrors Windows And Doors

Speaking to the lack of children s books with african american characters and themes the essay called for books to act as windows and mirrors that would allow all children to see themselves and the experiences of others in what they read.

Books as mirrors windows and doors.

Books are sometimes windows wrote dr. Subscribe today for 3 36 week. Books as mirrors windows and doors by margaret hollar special to the moultrie news. It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published.

These windows are also sliding doors and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become. Books also provide a window to diversity that you and your family might not encounter on a daily basis. Rudine sims bishop in a pivotal 1990 essay. In some ways we are the same and in some ways we are different.

Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors author. Books are sometimes windows offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined familiar or strange. When we provide our children with mirrors and windows children notice similarities and differences.