Cultural Trends in Child and Young Adult Literature

  Culture 3: Hispanic/Latinx A.     Bibliography Mora, Pat. (2010). Dizzy in your eyes: poems about love. New York. Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780375843754 B.      Plot Summary This is a collection of poems about different kinds of love. It is a collection of different styles of poems. There are tales of different kind of love, like the love of family, first love, and the love of a pet. C.      Critical Analysis Including Cultural Markers Pat Mora’s “Dizzy in your eyes” displays many types of poetry; free verse, haiku, list making, and more. The poems are written in the voice of a younger person and reaches out to Mora’s target audience. There is a mix of English and Spanish throughout the poems, but the reader can easily understand the meaning of the words through the rest of the text. She captures the angst of a student from a Spanish speaking country to America and was unable to speak Spanis...

  Culture 2: African American Culture   A.     Bibliography Pinkney, Andrea Davis. (2010). Sit-in: how four friends stood up by sitting down. New York. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780316070164 B.      Plot Summary Four friends who were young black college students went to a lunch counter at Woolworths in North Carolina. Businesses at the time were segregated and the students order food, all the while knowing they would not be served. They sat quietly and patiently. They were not served and when a police officer came by and could find nothing wrong with their actions, the manager of the Woolworths closed early and asked everyone to leave. After making news of their peaceful interactions, more and more sit ins at lunch counters happened. The peaceful protestors gained momentum, all while following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words promoting peace. President Kennedy gave a speech to the American people asking for kindnes...