Children’s Literature to Read Our World : Text Selection and Strategies for Critical Reflection

This book encourages preservice and inservice teachers to thoughtfully select children’s books that guide their students’ understanding of the world around them. Reading children’s books that highlight societal topics helps students think through complex ideas and life situations.While reading and discussing such books, students can be guided by their teachers and the books they read to make text to text, text to self, and text to world connections during reading.With contributions from leading scholars in children’s literature, the book details the selection of children’s books for class inclusion, including the significance of African-American, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and other diverse children’s literature.It also highlights societal topics through the lens of children’s literature, focusing on topics like economic diversity, refugee and immigrant experiences, teaching about the Holocaust and combatting antisemitism, discussing social and emotional learning, and exploring racial