Books As Mirrors Windows And Doors

Books also provide a window to diversity that you and your family might not encounter on a daily basis.

Books as mirrors windows and doors.

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. 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. Books open windows and doors to new experiences ideas and people. When we provide our children with mirrors and windows children notice similarities and differences.

Books as mirrors windows and doors by margaret hollar special to the moultrie news. Subscribe today for 3 36 week. Books are sometimes windows offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined familiar or strange. Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors author.

In some ways we are the same and in some ways we are different. These windows are also sliding doors and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become. Books are sometimes windows wrote dr.