Appropriate for children's literature courses where an emphasis is placed on multicultural literature. Can serve as a core text or supplement.

This well-known author has designed this unique book for Education, English, Library Science, and Humanities classes that emphasize selecting, analyzing, evaluating, and using children's multicultural literature. It includes chapters on African American, Native American, Latino, Asian, Jewish, and Middle Eastern cultures. Each chapter follows a five-phase approach, developed by the author, to lead readers to an understanding of the literature. This text emphasizes how the various multicultural literature selections discussed in the book may be taught using this exciting five-phase approach with children.