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Building on and inspired by the work of Paulo Freire, this book offers an accessible introduction to how children’s literature can be used in classrooms to explore cultural diversity and nurture collective qualities of shared joy, love and agency. The authors show how critical pedagogy and culturally responsive instruction can create meaningful ways for parents, teachers, and community leaders to engage with children's and young adult literature. The chapters include discussions of polyvocality, student voice, critical parent engagement, hip hop and digital popular culture. The authors demonstrate how readings of children’s literature, particularly multicultural literature, increase student joy, and engagement, reduce prejudice, and help students develop critical consciousness. Unique and theoretically grounded, the book presents many opportunities to weave the ideas of Freire into the fabric of K-12 schooling.

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The work of Paulo Freire is grounded in an epistemology of Love. This book is a testament to that grounding and serves as a book accessible to all – students, parents, teachers, and scholars – an opportunity to weave the ideas of Freire into the fabric of K-12 schooling, and more so into society for popular readership. -- Aly Juma, Associate Director at the Paulo Freire Institute, USA

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Ernest Morrell is Coyle Professor in Literacy Education, Professor of English, Professor of Africana Studies, and Director of the Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He is also Director of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Squire Office and an elected Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. Jodene Morrell is Teaching Professor and Associate Director of the Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

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