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Understanding the Benefits and Challenges of School Integration: Contributions from Children’s Literature
No full textAs a nation, we are currently experiencing a moment of racial reckoning, where issues of racial injustice, diversity, and educational inequality are debated. Literature offers a documentary source of evidence that informs the historical record. Children’s literature reveals our conceptions of social class, race, and the role of education in a given historical period. Scholars like Amanda Gailey at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln study changes in how Blacks are represented in children’s literature. Historically, children’s literature has avoided or neglected representations of Blacks, except as literary stereotypes
Couples Who Collaborate: John and Hayley Rocco
No full textIn their solo careers, John and Hayley Rocco are no strangers to the children’s book world. Their latest adventure found this couple putting their heads together to create How to Send a Hug (Little, Brown, 2022). The Roccos, who live in Rhode Island with a plethora of pets, are enthusiastic about this first collaborative work, which shares the joys of sending a letter through the mail
Shy, Not Anti-Social: How to Include and Represent Shy Children in the Library
No full textShyness in children is a phenomenon often overlooked as a trait that every child will “grow out of” or stigmatized as an emotional or behavioral anomaly, by caregivers as well as teachers. Yet, academic research on supporting shy children in the context of library youth services is scarce.Unlike social anxiety or introversion, shyness is a lay term that is more difficult to pinpoint, yet inherently meaningful. Asendorpf defines the term broadly as, “various forms of modest, reserved, wary, inhibited, anxious, or withdrawn behaviors in social situations.” While this may serve as a functioning umbrella for a variety of behaviors, not all children who identify as being shy exemplify all of these behaviors
The Importance of Wishes: An Interview with Author Sandra Magsamen
No full textChildren’s author and illustrator Sandra Magsamen holds a beloved place in the hearts of library professionals who know the impact and power of her loving board and picture books. As the author and illustrator of more than sixty children’s and adult books, Magsamen, trained as an art therapist, hopes to create books that offer people a way to reach out and connect in a meaningful and expressive way with someone in their life, and indeed she accomplishes this with her endearing new release, I Wish Wish Wish for You
Membership Committee: ALSC Member Profiles
No full textIn celebration of the centennial of the Newbery Medal, the ALSC Membership Committee interviewed past Newbery Committee members about their experiences.Jenna Friebel, Collection Management Librarian, Oak Park Public Library; 2020 Committee (Newbery Winner New Kid by Jerry Craft)Tad Andracki, Middle School Librarian, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools; 2018 Committee (Newbery Winner Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
Bragging Rights and the Newbery
No full textIn an article in the Spring 2022 issue of Children and Libraries, celebrating the centennial of the Newbery Medal, author Steven Herb provided an intriguing statistical examination of Newbery Medal and Honor Books and their creators. In addition, the author wished for a “country and state-by-state birth distribution.
Editor’s Note: The Awakening
No full textMothers may know best, as the saying goes, but grandmothers and librarians are a close second. Put them together and, well, it’s a recipe for early literacy success.Heidi Gustafson, a library associate of mine at Brown County (WI) Library in Green Bay, couldn’t wait to be a first-time grandma this year; she began collecting book favorites old and new even before little Grady, pictured on our cover, was born
New Appointments to Depository Library Council
No full textGODORT welcomes the newest Depository Library Council members, who will serve from June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2025