On December 15, 2018, Teaching for Change joined an important dialogue about representation in children’s literature on-stage at the Oprah Winfrey Theater in the National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). The museum’s Early Childhood Education Initiative collaborated with the events department to celebrate the re-release of James Baldwin’s only children’s book Little Man, Little Man: A Story […]
Highlights from Social Justice Books
Teaching for Change launched SocialJusticeBooks.org to identify and promote the best multicultural and social justice children’s books. We partnered with the See What We See (SWWS) coalition to create a database of critical children’s book reviews. One year after launching in 2017, the SocialJusticeBooks site is now home to more than 50 recommended booklists on […]
Despite National Outrage, Scholastic Defends Children’s Book Celebrating Trump
FINALLY – Scholastic’s celebratory children’s books about Donald Trump are finally OUT OF PRINT. After thousands of letters in an action campaign from teachers, parents, and students across the United States, Scholastic has stopped reprinting these two books. Earlier this month we published critical reviews of the Scholastic books for early and upper elementary students about the […]
Scholastic Tells Children: Trump is Great
Update Nov. 2019: Scholastic’s celebratory children’s books about Donald Trump are finally OUT OF PRINT, after thousands of teachers, parents, and students sent letters. Update June 2018: Scholastic issued a statement, defending the books without responding to any of the points in the review below. Read more in Despite National Outrage, Scholastic Defends Children’s Books […]
Junot Díaz’s Islandborn: Before and After
The new children’s book Islandborn by Junot Díaz tells the story of a young girl, Lola, who learns from family and friends about the island where she was born. The island is not named in the book, but readers can deduce that the story is based on the history of the Dominican Republic. “Every kid in […]
Tell Knopf: Stop Publishing “Monkey” Book Series by Marc Brown
It is hard to believe that anyone looking at the Monkey early childhood book series by Marc Brown did not see the racist stereotypes it perpetuates. However, the reviewers gave it an enthusiastic thumbs up when it was first released in 2015, libraries have stocked the book, and number three in the series was released […]
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