Volume 12, Issue 4/5. 1981

Themes:

romance series; patriarchy; women's rights; abortion; male privilege; sexism; historical misrepresentation and omission; racism; stereotypes; preteens and teenagers; problem novels; censorship

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Selma Lanes, Brett Harvey, Emily Strauss Watson, Sharon Wigutoff, Ruth S. Meyers, Barbara Ann Porte, Donnarae MacCann, Lyla Hoffman, Patricia B. Campbell, The Multicultural Project for Communication and Education, Doris Seale, Jan Meryl, Joan Kelly, Jamila Gaston, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman

Materials Reviewed:

Where the Elf King Sings by Judie Wolkoff. Amazon / WorldCat
Margaret Mead: A Portrait by Edward Rice. Amazon / WorldCat
She Never Looked Back: Margaret Mead in Samoa by Sam Epstein and Beryl Epstein. Amazon / WorldCat
Two Places to Sleep by Joan Schuchman. Amazon / WorldCat
Pagans in Our Midst by Andre Lopez. Amazon / WorldCat
Bouquets for Brimbal by J. P. Reading. Amazon / WorldCat
Waiting for Johnny Miracle by Alice Bach. Amazon / WorldCat
Idalia's Project ABC: An Urban Alphabet Book in English and Spanish by Idalia Rosario. Amazon / WorldCat
The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf. Amazon / WorldCat
The Secret in the Garden by Winifred Barnum Newman. Amazon / WorldCat
Cry Softly! The Story of Child Abuse by Margaret O. Hyde. Amazon / WorldCat
The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn Lasky. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Fifteen by Beverly Cleary
My First Love by Francine Pascal
Only Love by Susan Salas
First Love series by Simon & Schuster
Wildfire Romance series by Scholastic
Wishing Star series by Scholastic
Sweet Dreams series by Bantam
American Reading Instruction by Nila Bantam Smith
Growin' by Nikki Grimes
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Peterson
Sea Glass by Laurence Yep
Home is Where They Take You In by Brenda Seabrook
The Alfred Summer by Jan Slepian
The Gift Giver by Joyce Hansen
The Magic of Glits by C. S. Adler
Alan and Naomi by Myron Levoy
Trial Vally by Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver
Belonging by Deborah Kent
Like It Is: Facts and Feelings from Kids Who Know by Barbara Adams
You're a Brick, Angela! A New Look at Girls' Fiction from 1839 to 1975 by Mary Cadogan and Patricia Craig
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories in Art and Popular Culture by John G. Cawelti
Mother Was a Lady: Self and Society in Selected Children's Periodicals 1865-1890 by R. Gordon Kelly
The Girl-Sleuth by Bobbie Ann Mason
Words By Heart by Ouida Sebestyen
My Daddy Don't Go to Work by Madeena Spray Nolan

Keywords:

romance, romance series, patriarchy, women's rights, abortion, day care, male privilege, sexism, conservatives, Right to Life, textbooks, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Adolph Hitler, nationalism, series, historical misrepresentation and omission, racism, stereotypes, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), preteen, teenage, National Education Association (NEA), bias, Scholastic, Xerox Education Publications, Wildfire, Wishing Star, Sweet Dreams, First Love, The Feminist Press, censorship, David Darland, mass market, publishing, problem novels, Judy Blume, Norma Klein, Ann Reit, Bantam Books, Simon & Schuster, Harlequin, Fred Kenner, George Nicholson, Dell, Yearling, Laurel Leaf, Mona Altman, Caprice, Grosset & Dunlap, Franklin Watts, Jean Vestal, Mary Verdic, Marjorie Jones, Junior Literary Guild, book clubs, stretch books, William Mays Jr., Mary L. Spencer, National Organization for Women (NOW), Jan Peterson, National Congress of Neighborhood Women, Donnarae MacCann, Ruth Bond, Dimples Armstrong, Elizabeth H. Giese, Moral Majority, Brett Harvey, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, True Story, Ashley Pennington, disabilities, Disability in Action (DIA), lesbian, Leonore Gordon, gay, reluctant readers, classism, Frieda Zames, handicapism, Jackie Ball, Black, censorship by omission, publishing- whiteness, hi-lo, librarians, Reading is Fundamental, Eloise Greenfield, Sharon Bell Mathis, Beverly Cleary, Mildred Taylor, Marilyn Sachs, William Steig, Lucille Clifton, reading is eating, lesson plans, mass media, formula series, Mariam Frenier, Ms. Magazine, Elaine Wagner, Claudia Cole, Klan Youth Corps, desegregation, Connecticut Education Association, National Anti-Klan Network (NAKN), NAKN Education Committee, propaganda, critical education, John Leeke, Words by Heart, textbooks, Framingham Teachers' Association (FTA), Integrate Education