Mirrors Windows And Sliding Glass Doors Bishop 1990

Rudine sims bishop published an essay about the importance of providing young readers with diverse books that reflect the multicultural nature of the world in which we live.

Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors bishop 1990.

Bishop coined the phrase windows mirrors and sliding glass doors to explain how children see themselves in books and how they can also learn about the lives of others through literature. It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published. Speaking to the lack of children s books with african american characters and themes the essay called for books to act as windows and mirrors that would allow all children to see themselves and the experiences of others in what they read. Abstract this article seeks to complicate the understanding of bishop s 1990 metaphor of mirrors windows and sliding glass doors with particular emphasis on sliding glass doors and the emotional connections needed for readers to move through them.

By cynthia leitich smith. The authors begin by examining the importance of the reader and the characters he or she meets. In this video from reading rockets rudine sims bishop professor emerita from ohio state university speaks on mirrors windows and sliding doors as metaphors for diversity in children s ya literature. In appreciation by sam bloom from reading while white and mirrors windows sliding glass doors curtains featuring debbie reese.

See also rudine sims bishop. The stonewall book awards has categories for children and youth including non fiction 1 dr. Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors author.