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Article: Critical connections: professional reading.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
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- July 1, 2003
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Mingshui Cai Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults 201 pp. Greenwood 10/02 ISBN 0-313-31244-3 64.95
In nine chapters, Cai looks at central issues concerning the definition, critical evaluation, and educational practices of multicultural literature. He sustains the single argument that multicultural books make a difference in the lives of all child readers and have the unique potential to transform social relations. The first section of the book tries to pin down an operating definition and useful classifications of multicultural literature by addressing the pull between literary value and pedagogical purpose. He weighs definitions of ...