...Erin Hogan; James S. Chisholm; Amy Eisenback Purpose This study aims to examine how preservice teachers (PSTs) discussed and reflected on discussions of justice-oriented picturebooks in one undergraduate children’s literature course. Analyses of how and why PSTs engage or refuse to engage...

...Erica Holyoke; Lauren Fletcher; Jessica Ramos Purpose This study aims to examine how early childhood and elementary teachers share picturebooks to support justice-oriented science learning about water, fostering students’ critical thinking and civic relationships in a politically charged...

...Sarah D. Reid Purpose Picturebooks can be considered sociopolitical art and, as such, are ideal for inviting children into critical conversations during justice-oriented interactive read-alouds. Therefore, how teachers critically curate their picturebook collections, finding and selecting texts...

... and enacts a lived religion approach for interpreting realistic fictional children’s picturebooks with religious cultural dimensions, through literary interpretation of one picturebook, The Beautiful Lady: Our Lady of Guadalupe, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher and written by Pat Mora...

...Melody Zoch; Amy Burke Purpose This paper aims to share four problematic patterns found in adoption-themed picturebooks: celebrations that oversimplify adoption’s complexity, narrow representations of family, prevalent whitewashing and minimal attention to structural inequities. By examining...