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Children’s Literature: Foregrounding Social Class

Posted on April 30, 2008:

Atkins, Jeannine (1998). Get Set! Swim! New York, NY: Lee & Low Books, Inc.

Baylor, Byrd (1998). The Table Where Rich People Sit. Aladdin Books.

Borden, Louise (1990). The Neighborhood Trucker. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

Browne, Anthony (2001). Voices in the Park. DK Children.

Bunting, Eve (1993). Fly Away Home. New York, NY: Clarion Books.

Bunting, Eve (1997). A Day’s Work. New York, NY: Clarion Books.

Cole, Kenneth (2001). No Bad News. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company.

Hartland, Jessie (2007). Night Shift. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Children’s Books.

Hazen, Barbara Shook (1983). Tight Times. New York, NY: Puffin.

Hest, Amy (1996). Jamaica Louise James. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.

Isaacs, Gwynne L. (1991). While You Are Asleep… New York, NY: Walker and Company.

Jackson, Isaac (1996). Somebody’s New Pajamas. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers.

Lewis, E.B. (1999). My rows and piles of coins. New York, NY: Clarion Books.

London, Jonathan. (1996). The Village Basket Weaver. New York, NY: Dutton Children’s Books.

Williams, Vera B. (1984). A Chair for My Mother. New York, NY: Harper Trophy.

Williams, Vera B. (1986). Something Special For Me. New York, NY: Harper Trophy.

Williams, Vera B. (2004). Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart. New York, NY: Harper Trophy.

Wyeth, Sharon Dennis (2002). Something Beautiful. Dragonfly Books.

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