Facing the Black Child: The Bold Direction of Twenty-First-Century Picturebooks

Authors

  • Michelle H. Martin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.16.3.3

Abstract

Years ago, as a Clemson University assistant professor of English, I assigned a service learning project to my students, all of whom were upper-class education majors who would become classroom teachers within a few years of taking my Children’s Literature course. Each student visited our local Head Start for three quarters of the sixteen-week semester to read one-on-one with a child.

Author Biography

Michelle H. Martin

Michelle H. Martin is the Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services in the Information School at the University of Washington, where she teaches in the Master of Library and Information Science Program. For the five years prior to this appointment, she was the inaugural Augusta Baker Endowed Chair in Childhood Literacy at the University of South Carolina. She authored Brown Gold: Milestones of African-American Children’s Picture Books, 1845–2002 (Routledge, 2004).

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Published

2018-09-24

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2018): Fall

Section

Features

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