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Welcoming Black Children into Literary Wildscapes: Wildness in African American Children's Picture Books
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 50, 2022
- pp. 269-295
- 10.1353/chl.2022.0014
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Abstract:
This essay confronts the dearth of picture books featuring African American children having immersive outdoor experiences and uses a close analysis of the few that exist to construct a literary framework of African American wildness that offers both a critical and creative understanding of these portrayals.