Books as Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors (Diverse Books)

Shannon and Mary open the season with a discussion about the importance of books to represent the diversity of our students giving them an opportunity to see themselves in books and opportunities to view other cultures, family structures and values. 

Resource Links:

  1. THE Actual Paper that started this discussion 
  2. Building a Diverse Book Collection
  3. Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Doors
  4. Librarian Professor article in the Atlantic
  5. We Are Teachers: Mirrors and Windows
  6. Teaching Tolerance article
  7. Book Harvest article
  8. Book List from NPR
  9. Windows & Doors eBook and Portfolio Perspective (free activity on TpT)
  10.  The Tutu Teacher’s Diverse Book List
  11. Combining Teaching Tolerance Standards with Read Alouds

Follow: @diversereads & @thetutututeacher @loveteachbless @weneeddiversebooks
@readlikearockstar @littlesandlit @nouvelle_ela @theapron_education @hereweread
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Specific Book Titles Mentioned:

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  1. Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
  2. The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
  3. I Am Enough by Grace Byers
  4. Hair Love by Matthew Cherry and Vashti Harrison
  5. Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
  6. My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero
  7. Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
  8. A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
  9. A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
  10. Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
  11. Last Stop on Mark
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