Author:
Gardner Roberta Price,Brooks Wanda,Cueto Desirée
Abstract
This article examines three interrelated aspects concerning reader access, development, and engagement with Black children’s literature—educational policies and surveillance of Black children’s literature, publishing trends, and Black youths’ reader response—to consider what these elements tell us about where the field of Black children’s literature might go from here.
Publisher
National Council of Teachers of English
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