Thursday, November 19, 2009

something about Caldecott picture books

We could mention about the Caldecott Medal and Honor books reflect the politics found in America society in certain decade,  and how this honor system has been intensionally or unintentionally controlled children's mind in certain educational purpose.

I actually found this outline of essay is interesting. It really makes sense to me.

http://oregonname.org/pdf/CaldecottDiversity_Gomez&McNerney.pdf

Since we have all these lists of Caldecott winner books, we could look through the stories and find out the biased elements like races of the characters, gender play, moral conduct, happy endings, images of characters etc.

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