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Panel about “Advocacy in Recent Multicultural Literature for Children” at the National Council of Teachers of English Convention on Sunday, November 20, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

Janet Ruth Heller and Brynne Barnes will be speaking about “Advocacy in Recent Multicultural Literature for Children” at the National Council of Teachers of English Convention on Sunday, November 20, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. in Room B214 of the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.   Studying diverse texts advocates for respect for others, discourages bullying, and enhances students’ self-esteem and critical thinking. We will present examples and bibliographies of multicultural works; and discuss books about Jewish, African American, and Native American cultures.  Brynne Barnes will discuss “Mirror Images: The Importance of Reflections in Literature for Young Children and Self-Esteem.”  Janet Ruth Heller will analyze “Advocacy against Bullying in Recent Picture Books, Chapter Books, and Novels about Jewish and Native American Culture.”  Both presenters are college professors and writers of award-winning books for children.

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).