Scarecrow Press
Pages: 286
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-8108-9189-0 • Hardback • September 2013 • $143.00 • (£110.00)
978-0-8108-9190-6 • eBook • September 2013 • $135.50 • (£105.00)
Alice Crosetto has more than 35 years of experience as an educator and a librarian. Her research interests include children’s literature, urban fiction, and collection management in academic libraries.
Rajinder Garcha is professor emeritus at the University of Toledo. She is the co-author of The World of Islam in Literature for Youth (Scarecrow, 2006).
Crosetto and Garcha are coauthors of Disabilities and Disorders in Literature for Youth: A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12 (2009) and Death, Loss, and Grief in Literature for Youth:A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12 (2012), both published by Scarecrow Press.
This well-organized bibliography will assist librarians, educators, students, and researchers. . . . Annotations provide full publication data and a summary of contents, including series information, suggested grade levels, and quotes from professional reviews where applicable. Entries are organized into chapters on geographic regions, history, religion, customs and social life, or particular nations, as well as sections for oral literature, biographies, fiction, general reference, works for educators, and nonbook resources. Helpful indexes offer access via title, author/editor, illustrator/photographer, book awards, grade level, nations, series, or subject. This sensible organization shows an awareness of K-12 curriculum topics and will be of use to school and public librarians as well as to scholars of youth literature.
— School Library Journal
Crosetto and Garcha provide a well-organized bibliography of Native North American culture and history. Chapters are segmented into topics including geographic regions, history, religion, social life, customs, traditions, and nations. Additional chapters include biographies, works of Native American fiction, resources for educators (including those available in DVD format with running time), and internet sites which can be used to support school curriculums. Some internet site annotations note if there are discussion guides available for additional curriculum support. Each entry has in-depth annotations that list publication information, contents, suggested grade levels and quotes from professional journals where available. Most resources listed in this bibliography were published from 1995 to the present. Earlier works are included based on merit and historic educational value. The extensive information in this bibliography offers excellent, reliable resources for teachers studying Native North Americans in their classrooms.
— VOYA
Approximately 800 annotated titles of books on various aspects of Native American history form the body of this work, which is compiled by two specialists in children’s literature who are also library school faculty members. The books range in difficulty from picture books for pre-school children to adult titles suitable for senior high students. . . .The books are listed in 12 chapters that cover geographic regions, history, religion, social life and customs, nations, oral literature, biographies, fiction, general reference, media resources, books for educators, and Internet resources. The descriptive annotation for each book is four or five lines in length. . . .[T]he wide range of age and grade levels covered makes this book unique. The appendixes include lists of book awards, and information on Native American Heritage Month. The book can easily be search with its multitude of indexes, including author/editor, title, illustrator/photographer, nations, series, subject, grade/level, and book award index. This specialized tool will be valuable in school and public libraries where there is a great demand for material and other resources on Native American history.
— American Reference Books Annual