M. Stewart & Y. Atkinson 
Ethnic Literary Traditions in American Children’s Literature [PDF ebook] 

Do Dick and Jane Still Live Here? Reading Children’s Literature as Ethnic Literature; Y.Atkinson & M.P.Stewart PART I: AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE Listening to the Loons: On Finding the Ideas for My Books; J.Bruchac Beyond Feathers and Fringe: An Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith; M.P.Stewart Survival Through Stories: An Introduction to Indian Literatures; P.J.Hafen Oral Narrative and Objibwa Story Cycles in Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence; E.Gargano Alive and Well and Reclaiming Their Cultural Voice: Third Generation Native American Children’s Literature; M.P.Stewart PART II: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE The Cadence of Language: An Interview with Julius Lester; Y.Atkinson ‘Way Down in the Jungle Deep, the Lion Stepped on the Monkey’s Feet’: An Introduction to African American Literature; Y.Atkinson Trauma and National Identity in Haitian American Young Adult Literature; K.Capshaw Smith For All My Children, or Approaching African American Children’s Picture Books; N.Lester PART III: ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE ‘Where Are You From?’ Does an Author’s Ethnicity Matter in Mainstream Contemporary Literature?; L.Yee On Finding a Home; C.Kadohata Foreigners Within: an Introduction to Asian American Literature; T.Yamamoto Acts of ‘Desicreation’: Urban Space and South Asian American Identity in Tanuja Desai Hidler’s Born Confused’; M.L.de Jesus ‘Examining History: Representing War in Asian American Autobiographies for Children; R.G.Davis PART IV: LATINO/A LITERATURE Widening the Circle: An Oral Interview with Julia Alvarez; M.P.Stewart Art, Activism, and Community: An Introduction to Latina/o Literature; T.González Conflicting Inclinations: Luis J. Rodriguez’s Picture Books for Children; P.Serrato Reading Trauma and Violence in U.S. Latina/o Children’s Literature; T.Lopez Further Reading

MICHELLE PAGNI STEWARTis Associate Professor of English at Mt. San Jacinto College, USA.
YVONNE ATKINSON is Associate Professor of English at Mt. San Jacinto College, USA.