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Toward the end of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s novel Ferris, Mr. Buoy, the elderly hardware store owner comments, “Yes indeed, there is a way out of
After my Children’s Literature class has read their first book of the semester, I often ask them whether they think that book is appropriate for
I will admit it. I had all the wrong ideas about this book. When I saw that it was a novel-in-verse about German POWs picking
Rudine Sims-Bishop first suggested that children’s literature might function as a mirror or a window (1990). The idea is that sometimes children can see themselves
Early on in the book Caste, Isabel Wilkerson invokes a metaphor familiar to anyone conversant with Jesus’s parables. She says that society is like a
ORBITING JUPITER GARY D. SCHMIDT CLARION BOOKS, 2015 $18 192 PAGES In the first chapter of Gary Schmidt’s latest young-adult novel, Orbiting Jupiter, a social
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