Why Stop at Windows and Mirrors?: Children’s Book Prisms
Uma Krishnaswami,
Jan 17, 2019
It has been twenty-nine years since Rudine Sims Bishop’s seminal essay “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” was published. Speaking to the lack of children’s books with African American characters and themes, the essay called for books to act as windows and mirrors that would allow all children to see...