This month, our blog will feature their writing, considering the possibilities of incorporating global children’s literature in the classroom from their experiences as readers with these books. I invited my students to select one book to read and discuss with a partner in class, and to write a response that we could share in this blog, focusing on their personal response to the text, as well as their thoughts about using their selected novel in the classroom.
For the current fall 2014 semester, I was particularly drawn to selecting children’s literature featuring stories from different times in history books that would allow us to engage in critical conversations about the everyday lives of strong characters, whose experiences could help shape our understandings of our ourselves and others.
Planning for teaching children’s literature in my graduate Literacy Studies program at Hofstra University provides me with the perfect opportunity to select books that invite readers to take on a global perspective. By Andrea García, Amanda Lev and Oddette Williams, Hofstra University.
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