Volume 14, Issue 1/2. 1983

Themes:

children's books on Puerto Rican themes; extremism; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); Nazis; communism; affirmative action; civil rights; moral majority; critical consciousness; critical education; institutional oppression; socialism; anti-racism; white savior; classism; historical misrepresentation and omission

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Byron Williams, Sonia Nieto, Sharon Wigutoff, Iris Santos-Rivera, Samuel Betances, Virginia Copeland, Anaida Colon-Muniz, Geraldine Wilson, Beryle Banfield, Lyla Hoffman, Mary Ellen Tosi, Leonore Gordon, Kate Shackford, Jan M. Goodman, Patricia B. Campbell, Kipp Watson, Ruth S. Meyers

Materials Reviewed:

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton. Amazon / WorldCat
Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven by Margot Zemach. Amazon / WorldCat
Shadow by Marcia Brown. Amazon / WorldCat
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs. Amazon / WorldCat
Friends Till the End by Todd Strasser. Amazon / WorldCat
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden. Amazon / WorldCat
All the Colors of the Race: Poems by Arnold Adoff. Amazon / WorldCat
Sometimes It Happens by Elinor Lander Horwitz. Amazon / WorldCat
She Was There: Stories of Pioneering Women Journalists by Jean E. Collins. Amazon / WorldCat
Full-Time Active: Sara Plotkin, An Oral History by Community Documentation Workshop. Amazon / WorldCat
Jock and Jill by Robert Lipsyte. Amazon / WorldCat
Time for a Change: A Woman's Guide to Nontraditional Occupations by Constance Drake Cowley. Amazon / WorldCat
Taking on the World: Empowering Strategies for Parents of Children with Disabilities by Joyce Slayton Mitchell. Amazon / WorldCat
The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman. Amazon / WorldCat
Thinking about Aging by Prime Time School Television.

Materials Highlighted:

Juan Bobo and the Pig: A Puerto Rican Folktale Retold by Bernice Chardiet
Yagua Days by Cruz Martel
The Hispanic Americans by Milton Meltzer
Felita by Nicholasa Mohr
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
Roberto Clemente by Kenneth Rudeen
Stories from El Barrio by Piri Thomas
Cuentos: An Anthology of Short Stories from Puerto Rico by Kal Wagenheim, ed.
Once in Puerto Rico by Pura Belpré
An Album of Puerto Ricans in the United States by Stuart J. Brahs
Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pirates by Jerry Brondfield
Roberto Clemente: The Pride of Puerto Rico by Irving Gerber
Luis: una historia bilingue/A Bilingual Story by John Getsinger
A Shadow Like a Leopard by Myron Levoy
El Bronx remembered: A Novella and Stories by Nicholasa Mohr
In Nueva York by Nicholasa Mohr
Nilda by Nicholasa Mohr
Elizabeth: A Puerto Rican-American Tells Her Story by Joe Molnar
Yukiyu: El espíritu de Borinquen by Eduardo Ordóñez
Hot Land, Cold Sea by Pedro Juan Soto
Puerto Rico by John Augelli
The Rainbow-Colored Horse by Pura Belpré
New York City Too Far From Tampa Blues by T. Ernesto Bethancourt
Where the Deer and the Cantaloupe Play by T. Ernesto Bethancourt
Josefine Finds the Prince by Eve Bunting
The First Book of Puerto Rico by Antonio J. Colorado
Puerto Rico: An Island on the Move by Robert E. Connors and Donald R. Haener
Growing Up Puerto Rican by Paulette Cooper
Mañana Is Now: The Spanish-Speaking in the United States by Alberta Eiseman
Hispano-American Contributors to American Life by John M. Franco et al.
My Aunt Otilia's Spirits/Los espíritus de mi tia Otilia by Richard Garcia
Puerto Rico: Long Ago by Irving Gerber
A Short History of Puerto Rico by Morton J. Golding
Gaucho by Gloria González
The Dark Side of Nowhere by Genevieve Gray
Felisa Rincón de Gautier: The Mayor of San Juan by Ruth Gruber
Danza! by Lynn Hall
Little League Hotshots by William Heuman
The Puerto Ricans in America by Ronald J. Larson
The Image of Puerto Rico: Its History and Its People on the Island-On the Mainland by Robin McKnown
How Juan Got Home by Peggy Mann
Luis Muñoz Marín: The Man Who Remade Puerto Rico by Peggy Mann
The Secret Dog of Little Luis by Peggy Mann
Puerto Rico in Pictures by Robert V. Masters
Tomás and the Talking Birds by Ruth Nulton Moore
Famous Puerto Ricans by Clarke Newlon
Puerto Pico: Islands Between Two Worlds by Lila Perl
Puerto Rico en mi corazon/Puerto Rico in My Heart by Federico Ribes Tovar
Puerto Rico: Islands of Contrast by Geraldo Rivera
Miguel Robles - So Far by Geraldo Rivera and Edith Rivera
Atariba and Niguayona by Harriet Rohmer and Jesus Guerrero Rea
We All Come from Someplace: Children of Puerto Rico by Julia Singer
We All Come from Puerto Rico, Too by Julia Singer
Pablito's New Feet by Dawn C. Thomas
Hello, Puerto Rico by Morris Weeks, Jr.
They Call Me Jack: The Story of a Boy from Puerto Rico by Sandra Weiner
Spanish Here and Now by Gary D. Keller, Nancy A. Sebastiani, and Francisco Jimenéz
America: Its People and Values by Leonard C. Wood
American History by Jack Abramowitz
American History by John A Garrarty
The American Nation by John A Garrarty
The Americans by Winthrop Jordan et al.
America's Heritage by Margaret Stimmann Branson
Episodes in American History by Robert E. Burns et al.
Exploring Our Nation's History by Melvin Schwartz and John R. O'Connor
The Free and the Brave by Henry F. Graff
Freedom's Trail by Richard A. Bartlett
History of a Free People by Henry Bragdon and Samuel McCutchen
The Impact of Our Past by Bernard Weisberger
Land of Challenge by Margaret Stimmann Branson
Let Freedom Ring by Joseph H. Dempsey
The National Experience by John Blum et al.
A People and a Nation by Clarence Ver Steeg and Richard Hofstadter
Rise of the American Nation by Lewis Paul Todd and Merle Curti
The Shaping of America by Richard Curry et al.
The Puerto Rican Woman by Edna Acosta Belen
The Islands: The World of Puerto Ricans by Stan Steiner
La Carretta by Rene Marques
Spiks by Pedro Juan Soto
ABC de Puerto Rico, Fabian by Luis Nieves Falcón, ed.
Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans: Studies in History and Society by Adalberto Lopez and James Petras, eds.
Puerto Rico: A Socio-Historic Interpretation by Manuel Maldonado-Denis
We, The Puerto Rican People: A Story of Oppression and Resistance by Juan Angel Silen
Palante Young Lords Party by Michael Abramson
A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches by Jesús Colón
Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future by U. S. Commission on Civil Rights
The Puerto Rican Woman by Edna Acosta-Belen
Puerto Rican Women in the U. S.: Organizing for Change by National Conference of Puerto Rican Women
Sexism in the Classroom by Commission for the Improvement of Women's Rights
Borinquen: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature by Maria Teresa Babin and Stan Steiner
A Better Chance to Learn: Bilingual-Bicultural Education by United States Commission on Civil Rights
Bilingual Education by Hernan LaFontaine et al., eds.
Bilingualism and Public Policy: Puerto Rican Perspectives by Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Cool World by Warren Miller
Free to Be Muhammad Ali by Robert Lipsyte
Lawrence 1912: The Bread and Roses Strike by William Cahn
In Mine and Mill - A Photographic Portfolio by Earl Dotter

Keywords:

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