Multicultural children's literature : an annotated bibliography, grades K-8 /

This annotated bibliography of children's books includes more than 1,100 titles published since 1980 arranged under four ethnic groups--African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. The compiler, a middle-school teacher, has divided each ethnic section into two divisions--grades K^-3 and grades 4^-8. Under each of these, titles are grouped under four headings--"Informational Nonfiction," "Biographies/Autobiographies," "Historical/Realistic Fiction," and "Folktales/Myths/Legends." A directory of publishers of children's literature is followed by separate annotated lists of curriculum resources and sources for related reading and research for teachers. In the author/title index, the page numbers for the 300 curricular resources and informational reading and research titles are incorrect. Although it does not include as many as the 1,600 titles included in Connecting Cultures: A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children (Bowker, 1996), and the 65-word (average) descriptive annotations are not as long as in This Land Is Our Land: A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults (Greenwood, 1994), Lind includes many titles that are not listed in those books. Multicultural Children's Literature: An Annotated Bibliography will be a good additional resource for helping librarians and teachers select books that expose elementary and middle-school children to diverse cultures.