Who Writes for Black Children?
According to Sims Bishop, this female author is the "most highly regarded of today's African American writers of books for young people" (Bishop, 557)?
Who is Mildred Taylor?
Name the Academy-Award winning actress who wrote Sulwe.
Who is Lupita Nyong’o?
The Newbery Medal was established in this year.
What is 1922?
The scholar who provided us with the most detailed insight into children's literary publishing.
Who is Joel Taxel?
According to Nina Mikkelson, there are [blank] and [blank].
Hint: Each blank is one word.
What are "insiders" and "outsiders"?
Mildred Taylor's most famous work.
What is Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry?
Name the folklore character featured in A Story, A Story by Gail E. Haley.
Who is Anansi or spider man?
The Caldecott Medal was established in this year.
What is 1938?
The author of The Snowy Day.
Who is Ezra Jack Keats?
The term for when a medium (singular for media) moves from one format to another, then to another, then to another.
What is transmedia?
Name the interracial husband and wife duo who have been extremely influential to the genre.
Who are Leo and Diane Dillon?
This physical feature has been the subject matter of a handful of the books we have read this semester.
What is hair?
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was established in this year.
What is 1965?
The well-known librarian who wrote the 1969 speech, "Guidelines for Black Books."
Who is Augusta Baker?
When a cultural artifact is abstracted from its original purpose and sold for commercial "use" value.
What is commodification or commoditization?
This award is given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults.
What is the Coretta Scott King Book Award?
Chelsea Thomason did not like the use of this word during Alex's reading of Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe.
What is "dope"?
According to Taxel, children's literature boomed between these years.
What is 1983-1988?
Michelle Martin's term for the "golden age of Black children's literature."
What is Brown Gold?
The term for "education that addresses the interests, concerns, and experiences of individuals and groups considered outside the sociopolitical and cultural mainstream of American society" (Taxel, 172).
What is multiculturalism?
The Harlem Renaissance poet was once well known for publishing African American children's picture books.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Name the two celebrity politicians that we have read in this class and the titles of their picture books.
Who are Barack Obama and Stacey Abrams?
What are Of Thee I Sing and Stacey’s Extraordinary Words?
Publishers Weekly begin promoting picture book titles in this year.
What is 1988?
Correctly pronounce N-A-A-C-P (NAACP).
What is N double A C P?
According to scholar Dianne Johnson, the "illustration is equally important as the text" (Johnson, 10). Therefore, we must prioritize [blank] when reading African American children's literature.
Hint: 2 words
What is visual literacy?