Thomas: Stories Still Matter
According to CCBC data cited by Thomas, this percentage of children's and young adult books featured White characters.
What is over 85%?
This presidential election prompted a fourth-grade student to express fear that a border wall would force their family to leave the country.
What is the 2016 U.S. presidential election?
This is the pseudonym of the mother at the center of Crawley's qualitative case study.
Who is Diya?
This author wrote Dreamers, a picture book about an immigrant mother and her son, recommended by Bazemore-Bertrand.
Who is Yuyi Morales?
Thomas draws on Rudine Sims Bishop's metaphor that describes books reflecting children's own identities and offering views into other lives.
What are mirrors and windows?
Thomas uses this term for the limitations on children's imaginations caused partly by the lack of diverse representations in books and media.
What is the imagination gap?
When a student shared a fear about immigration during a cause-and-effect lesson, the author responded by doing this instead of discussing the concern.
What is calling on another student and continuing the lesson?
This picture book about two male penguins raising a chick was read aloud by Diya in her daughter's kindergarten class.
What is And Tango Makes Three?
This book by Nancy Garden depicts a girl whose drawing of her two mothers is challenged by a classmate.
What is Molly's Family?
Bazemore-Bertrand argues that children's literature can encourage students to participate in this kind of discussion and engagement.
What is social and democratic participation?
This NAACP children's publication emerged during the Harlem Renaissance and featured writers such as Langston Hughes.
What is The Brownies' Book?
This picture book by Alexandra Penfold and illustrated by Suzanne Kaufman is used to model discussions about diversity and belonging.
What is All Are Welcome?
After Diya read the inclusive picture book, she used this humorous phrase to describe the absence of the negative reaction she had anticipated.
What is 'the sky didn't fall or anything'?
This book by Monica Clark-Robinson recounts young people's participation in the 1963 Birmingham civil rights demonstrations.
What is Let the Children March?
Crawley's account of Diya challenges the assumption that all parents will respond to lesbian- and gay-inclusive picture books in this way.
What is with opposition or resistance?
Thomas discusses this 2014 social media campaign launched in response to the lack of diversity at a major children's publishing event.
What is #WeNeedDiverseBooks?
The final fold-out illustration in All Are Welcome shows students, families, and community members celebrating this holiday.
What is Lunar New Year?
This theoretical approach, used by Crawley, questions assumptions about what is considered normal, including heteronormativity.
What is queer theory?
This picture book by Monica Gunning tells the story of Zettie, a girl experiencing homelessness with her mother.
What is A Shelter in Our Car?
Thomas identifies stereotyping and marginalization as problems that persist even when books include characters from these communities.
What are minoritized groups or communities?
In the critical multicultural analysis framework discussed by Thomas, the reader is described using this metaphor for actively creating meaning.
What is the midwife of meaning?
When planning a read-aloud about social issues, Bazemore-Bertrand recommends considering whose story is being told and also asking this question.
What is whose story is missing?
Diya questioned whether books were merely available in the school library or actually being used, highlighting the difference between these two practices.
What are making books available and actively reading or using them in instruction?
This picture book by Gayle Pitman depicts a Pride parade and includes contextual information and discussion guidance for readers.
What is This Day in June?
Both Thomas and Bazemore-Bertrand encourage educators to examine whose perspectives are present in a text and whose perspectives are this.
What are missing, silenced, or excluded?