Volume 5, Issue 1 / 2. 1974

Themes:

institutional racism; minority publishing; self-esteem; cultural imperialism; sexism; anti-Semitism; ethnocentrism

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

H. M. Zell, Miriam Morton, G. J. A. Murray, Jr., Carla Stevens, KAren Wald

Materials Reviewed:

The Adventures of Guguze by Spiridon Vangheli. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Why There Are So Many Roads by Peggy Appiah
Twilight Tales by Kanle Akinsemoyin
The Magic Land of Shadows by Kola Onadipe
The Return of Shettima by Kola Onadipe
One Week One Trouble by Anezi Okoro
The Three Sons by Esther Kavila
Kim the Joker by Felix Kuguro
Kisalu and his Fruit Garden by David Maillu
The Valley of the Dead by Akberali Manji
The Adventures of Thiga by C. M. Mureithi
The Hippo Who Couldn't Stop Crying by Susie Muthoni
Merry-Making by Charity Waciuma
Take Me Home by Nereas Gicoru and Terry Hirst
The Naughty Hyena by Rachel Ririani
The Burning House by Rachel Ririani
The Sisters Who Were Afraid by Rachel Ririani
Gamblers Often Lose by Daniel N’gang'a
Laika and the Elephant by P. Sherfield
The Tortoise Dreams by A. Storrs
Moses series by Barbara Kimenye
Martha the Millipede by Barbara Kimenye
Vulture! Vulture! by Efua Sutherland
Tahinta by Efua Sutherland
Tawia Goes to Sea by Meshack Asare
I am Kofi by Meshack Asare
Mansa Helps at Home by Meshak Asare
To Know My Own by Ellen Geer Sangster
How the Leopard Got His Claws by Chinua Achebe
Febechi and Group in Cave Adventures by Anezi Okoro
Verses on Nigerian State Capitals by Mamman J. Vatsa
Verses for Children by Mamman J. Vatsa
Papa Ojo and His Family by Remi Adedeji
The Fat Woman by Remi Adedeji
The Forces of Superstition by Essien Etokakpan
Dele's Travels by Akinyele William
How the Earth was Satisfied by Mary Blocksma
What Happened When the World Danced by Mary Blocksma
My Brother Sean by Patrenella Brineberg
Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Sounder by William Armstrong
Noddy series by Enid Blyton
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Biggles and the Black Raider by W. E. Johns
A Harvest of Russian Children's Literature by Miriam Morton
The White Ship by Belyi Parakhod
The Gypsies by Jan Yoors
The Gypsies by Bernice Kohn
Gypsies: Wanderers in Time by Katherine Esty
Gypsies by John Hornby
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Dos Niños en la Cuba colonial by by Renée Méndez Capote
De la maravillosa historia de nuestra tierra by Renée Méndez Capote
Mother by Maxim Gorki
My Childhood by Maxim Gorki
My Universities by Maxim Gorki
World of Children's Literature by Anne Pellowski
Wash 'Em Clean by Kornei Chukovsky
The Horned Lamb by Shu̇ku̇rbek Beĭshenaliev
Clever Masha by Nina Vladimirovna Gernet
The Fisherman and the Goldfish by Alexander Pushkin
Min bror fran Afrika by Gun Jacobsson
Pizorro by Robert Vavra
The Drums Speak by Marc and Evelyn Bernheim
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Coral Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne
What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge
The Bengal Lancers by Francis Yeats-Brown
Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling

Keywords:

East African Publishing House, African Universities Press / Pilgrim Books, East African Cultural Trust, East African Literature Bureau, Njogu Gitene Publications, National Educational Company of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda Foundation, Tanzania Publishing House, East African Branch of Oxford University Press, Ghana Publishing Corporation, Nwankwo - Ifejika Publishers / Nwamife Publishers), Chinua Achebe, Ethiope Publishing Corporation, Philip Nkwocha, Onibonoje Press, Nigerian Branch of Oxford University Press, Evans Brothers, Heinemann Educational Books, University of London Press, Nelson and Longman's, Cyprian Ekwensi, East Central State Library Board, racism, institutional racism, Race Today, Teachers Against Racism (TAR), Books for Children: The Homelands of Immigrants in Britain, Doctor Dolittle, Little Black Sambo, Black Studies, People Against Racism in Education (PARE), How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System, Bridget Harris, Dorothy Kuya, minority publishing, numerical analysis, U.S.S.R., Soviet Union, bilingual, multilingual, Detskaia Literatura, self-image, self-esteem, Pionerskaya Pravda (Pioneer Truth), Pioneer (Pioneer), Grigorii Khodzer, Nanaian, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizia, colonialism, Russification, Lenin, Stalin, whitewash, indigenous, All-Union Writers' Union, Sharaf Rashidov, Kamil Yashin, Turdakun Usubalieva, Syunbai Eraliev, institutional racism, conformist, "Gypsies", Minority Rights Group, concentration camp, stereotype, Bela Toth, In the Last Seat, Jose Marti, Cuba, Eliseo Diego, Conrado Benitez, cultural imperialism, Afro-Cuban, Bohemia, El Instituto Cubano del Libro, Gramma, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, International Exchange, Ruben Martinez Villena, sexism, La Vida de mi Patria, People's Republic of China, Shanghai People's Publishing House, People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Kirin Provence People's Publishing House, Revolutionary Group of the Metropolitan Publishing House, People's Publishing House of Tibet, China Books and Periodicals, East Wind, Ssu-Shin-Four-New, Avalon Chinese Emporiums, Yenan Books, Lu Hsun, Four Continents Book Corporation, United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO, Jewish people, anti-Semitism, Yiddishist, Latin America, Ordfront, Gidlunds, Verdani, India, India Book House Education Trust, Nira Benegal, textbooks, ethnocentrism