New Glossary:
1. multicultural adjective /ˌmʌltiˈkʌltʃərəl/
Also multi-cultural, 1941 from multi-+cultural. At first often in a Canadian context. Picked up by U.S. education writers 1980s; widespread popular use from c. 1990.
including people of different races and religions:
a multicultural society
2. Censorship noun [ U ] /ˈsensəʃɪp/1590s, “office of a censor,” from censor(n.)+-ship. Meaning “action of censoring” is from 1824.
the act of censoring a book,film, newspaper, or other information:
political/state censorship
3. hypertext noun [ U ] /ˈhaɪpətekst/1969, from hyper- “over, above” + text(n.)
a way of joining a word to another page, document, etc on the Internet or in another computer program so that you can move from one to the other easily.
Authors Introduction:
1. David Elkind
David Elkind, PhD, is a professor and department chairman of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. After receiving his PhD from UCLA, he was a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Piaget's Institute d'Epistemologie Gentique in Geneva, Switzerland. Building on the theories of Jean Piaget, Elkind has done extensive research in the areas of perceptual, cognitive, and social development.
A renowned author and speaker, he has written several books, including The Hurried Child, Reinventing Childhood, All Grown Up and No Place to Go, and Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance. He is the author of more than 400 articles and book chapters, as well as several children's stories published in Jack and Jill magazine. His work has also been published in more popular publications such as Good Housekeeping and The Boston Globe Magazine. He has been profiled in People and Boston Magazine and is a contributing editor to Parents Magazine. Elkind presents his research in lectures throughout the U.S., Canada, and abroad. He has appeared on The Today Show, CBS Morning News, 20/20, Donahue, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Elkind co-hosted Kids These Days on Lifetime Television.
2. Eliza Dresang
On 4/21/2014, the University of Washington iSchool community lost Eliza Dresang, a respected friend, colleague, teacher and community member. Eliza held the endowed Beverly Cleary Professorship in Children and Youth Services.
She was widely known for her 1999 book, Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age, which helped countless librarians and teachers better understand and evaluate literature created for computer-savvy children. Her most current research, Project VIEWS2, funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and in partnership with the Washington state public libraries and schools, focused on measuring early literacy outcomes for children from birth to entering kindergarten.
3. Matt Christopher
Matt Christopher is America’s bestselling sports writer for children. Matt Christopher’s books have been selling since 1954 when he wrote his first book, The Lucky Baseball Bat. Since that time, sales have surpassed the 30 million mark. In 1992, Matt Christopher talked about being a children’s book author.
4. Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne was born into adventure. Her dada was in the army, so every year or two her family would move to a different state, or even a different country! By the times she was fifteen, Mary had lived in thirteen different houses and gone to eight different schools!
The books that have taken Mary to the most places are the Magic Tree House series. With Jack and Annie, she has traveled through time, from the prehistoric land of dinosaurs to the imaginary world of Camelot. But one of the greatest adventures of Mary’s writing life is the creative journey she takes with her reader, meeting them in person in schools and bookstores and reading the wonderful stories and letters they send. This, Mary says, is true magic.
5. David Macaulay
David Macaulay (born December 2, 1946) , the author of Black and White, is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His most famous works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988) and The New Way Things Work (1998). His illustrations have been featured in popular, nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design and engineering. He was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and also a recipient of the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for Black and White (1990).
6. Angela Johnson
Angela Johnson, the author of Heaven, (born June 18, 1961) is an American poet and writer of children's books, with over 40 books to her credit since beginning her writing career in 1989. Her children's picture books are simple yet poetic stories about African-American families, friendships, and common childhood experiences such as moving. Her books for older children revolve around similar themes but also explore deeper issues such as teen pregnancy and divorce. In all, the characters are realistic and the treatment sensitive, positive, and hopeful. Many of Johnson's books have Alabama connections and several treat Alabama history, as do her picture books A Sweet Smell of Roses about the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 and Wind Flyers about the Tuskegee Airmen, as well as her collection of lyrical poems The Other Side: Shorter Poems, which evoke Shorter, Alabama.
Books Introduction:
1. Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne
When Jack and Annie discover a mysterious tree house filled with books, they never dream that it will take them on exciting adventures around the world and throughout history! The story begins with Dinosaurs Before Dark, when Jack and Annie are whisked back to the prehistoric past. Can they figure out how to get home before dark . . . or will they become a dinosaur's dinner? With a total of twenty-eight adventures, kids will never get tired of traveling the world and completing missions with their new
friends Jack and Annie.
friends Jack and Annie.
2. Black and White by David Macaulay
Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story?
3. Heaven by Angela Johnson
Marley has lived in Heaven since she was two years old, when her mother found a postcard postmarked HEAVEN, OH on a park bench and decided that was where she wanted to raise her family.
And for twelve years, Marley's hometown has lived up to its name. She lives in a house by the river, has loving parents, a funny younger brother, good friends, and receives frequent letters from her mysterious Uncle Jack. Then one day a letter arrives form Alabama, and Marley's life is turned upside down. Marley doesn't even know who she is anymore -- but where can she go for answers, when she's been deceived by the very people she should be able to trust the most?
And for twelve years, Marley's hometown has lived up to its name. She lives in a house by the river, has loving parents, a funny younger brother, good friends, and receives frequent letters from her mysterious Uncle Jack. Then one day a letter arrives form Alabama, and Marley's life is turned upside down. Marley doesn't even know who she is anymore -- but where can she go for answers, when she's been deceived by the very people she should be able to trust the most?
4. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.
This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.
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