Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors originally appeared in perspectives.
Rudine sims bishop mirrors windows and sliding glass doors pdf.
Reflections of the development of african american children s literature.
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These windows are also sliding glass doors and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author.
They knew what ncte member rudine sims bishop wisely wrote.
In appreciation by sam bloom from reading while white and mirrors windows sliding glass doors curtains featuring debbie reese.
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 author.
Professor emerita rudine sims bishop in her home s library a short distance from the columbus campus.
Additional resources we used in class.
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When lighting conditions are just right however a window can also be a mirror.
Choosing and using books for the classroom.
Bishop coined the phrase windows mirrors and sliding glass doors to explain how children see themselves in books and how they.
In the essay dr.
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By rudine sims bishop the ohio state university.
By cynthia leitich smith 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.
Books are sometimes windows offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined familiar or strange.