Evaluating children's books : a critical look : aesthetic, social, and political aspects of analyzing and using children's books / Betsy Hearne and Roger Sutton, editors.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Allerton Park Institute Monticello, Ill.)
Other Authors: Hearne, Betsy Gould., Sutton, Roger.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana-Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, [1993]
Series:Allerton Park Institute (Series) ; no. 34.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Betsy Hearne
  • Censorship, negative criticism, glitzy trends, growing publisher output, and other shadows on the landscape of children's book reviewing: a panel discussion
  • Children's librarians, reviews, and collection development / Janice N. Harrington
  • Tools of the trade: school library media specialists, reviews, and collection development / Janie Schomberg
  • Evaluating children's books for whole-language learning / Violet Harris
  • Reviewing nonfiction books for children and young adults: stance, scholarship, and structure / Betty Carter
  • Visual criticism and children's literature / Barbara Kiefer
  • Insights and discoveries: illuminating textual criticism / Cathryn M. Mercier
  • The impact of reviewing on children's book publishing / Dorothy Briley
  • Reading Latin America: issues in the evaluation of Latino children's books in Spanish and English / Graciela Italiano
  • And yet ... beyond political correctness / Hazel Rochman
  • In conclusion / Roger Sutton.