From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:47:33 -0500

I'd like to take this opportunity to advertise a Call for Manuscripts for the Journal of Children's Literature of the Children's Literature Assembly. I do hope that some of the readers of this listserv will be interested in writing and submitting articles. For guidelines for submission, contact Patricia Austin by email paustin at uno.edu

Thanks! Pat Austin


Images in Children's Literature Fall 2001

Deadline: February 1, 2001

Whether visual or verbal, images conveyed in books are powerful: they formulate how children come to see and understand the world. Despite increased rhetoric about diversity and political correctness, books continue to perpetrate stereotypes. Grandmothers are still white-haired, old, and wearing aprons; artists still don berets, and sometimes characters of different countries still wear traditional garb rather than the clothing we'd typically see today. What are the images of various cultural groups and of varying professionals conveyed in children's books? What do these images subtly convey sexism, racism, or ageism? If so, how prevalent or pervasive is the problem? What can we do in sharing books that portray stereotypical images? In order to explore these questions, we invite submissions from both the creators of children's books and the teachers that share them with children.
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