Books Are Mirrors Windows And Sliding Glass Doors

Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors author.

Books are mirrors windows and sliding glass doors.

Rudine simms bishop coined the terms in her 1990 article mirrors windows and sliding glass doors originally published in the ohio state university perspectives. The stonewall book awards has categories for children and youth including non fiction 1 dr. Choosing and using books for the classroom. It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published.

An article by rudine sims bishop children s literature scholar and recipient of the coretta scott king virginia hamilton award for lifetime achievement expands this concept even further. Bishop coined the phrase windows mirrors and sliding glass doors to explain how children see themselves in books and how they can also learn about the lives of others through literature. Books are sometimes windows offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined familiar or strange.