Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children

Preface: Derrumbando Fronteras/Breaking Boundaries
Ellen Riojas Clark and Belinda Bustos Flores
Foreword: Literature in the Lives of Latino Children
Alma Flor Ada
Acknowledgments
Part I. Framing the Discussions: Theory and Rationale
1 Multicultural Latino Children's Literature: Enriching the Lives and the
Learning of Latino Bilingual Learners
Ellen Riojas Clark, Belinda Bustos Flores, and Genevie C. Rodríquez-Quiñones
2 Exploring the Traditions of Latino Children's Literature: Beyond Tokenism to Transformation
Howard L. Smith, Belinda Bustos Flores, Daniel A. González, and Diana Estrada
Part II. Multicultural Children's Literature Representing Latino Realities
3 Beyond Candy Skulls and Latino Celebrations: Empowering Bilingual Latino Students' Identity Development with Diverse Culturally Relevant Literature
Jamie Campbell Naidoo and Ruth E. Quiroa
4 Cruzando Fronteras: Negotiating the Stories of Latino Immigrant and Transnational Children
Gilberto P. Lara, Patricia Sánchez, Janeth Martínez-Cortes, and Maité Landa
5 Using Children's Literature to Understand Values, Traditions, and Beliefs within Latino Family Systems
Mari Riojas-Cortez and Raquel Cataldo
6 Using Culturally Sustaining Literature for Latino Children in the Early Childhood Classroom
Ysaaca Axelrod and Cristina Gillanders
Part III. Multicultural Literature in the Content Areas: Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Mathematics
7 Embracing the Complexity of Language: Bringing All Forms of Knowledge into the Language Arts through Latino Children's Literature
Christina Passos DeNicolo
8 Día de Muertos: Authentic Cultural Representation in Children's Literature
Cecilia Perfecto
9 Dichos y Adivinanzas: Literary Resources that Enhance Science Learning and
Teaching in the Bilingual Classroom
María Guadalupe Arreguín and José Augustín Ruiz-Escalante
10 Tiempo y Cultura: Exploring Mathematics through Latino Stories
Carlos A. LópezLeiva and Yoo Kyung Sung
Part IV. Multiple Modes of Multicultural Children's Literature
11 Cultural Multiliteracies: Integrating Technology with Latino Children's Literature
Sonia N. Sánchez, Lucila D. Ek, Myriam Jimena Guerra, and Genevie C. Rodríquez-Quiñones
12 Técnica Con/Safos: Visual Iconography in Latino Picture Books as a Tool for Cultural Affirmation
Lettycia Terrones
13 Latino Children's Multicultural Literature and Literacy Practices as Social Imagination: Becoming a Culturally Efficacious Educator
Belinda Bustos Flores, Ellen Riojas Clark, Howard L. Smith, and Kenya Vargas
14 Cultivando Historias, Voces, y Raíces through Community Cultural Wealth and Oral History
Christian Valdez and Cori Salamerón
Part V. Dimensions of Cultural Heritage and Literacy
15 Latino Children's Literature: Iluminando el Significado de Nuestras Vidas y Cultura
Daniel Alejandro González and Claudia Treviño García
16 Una Fuente de Recursos: A Literary Guide for Children, Parents, and Educators
Daniel Alejandro González, Claudia Treviño García, Oralia Garza de Cortés, and Amanda A. Hernández
Index
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