Multicultural Children’s Literature Tools and Techniques in Sitti’s Secret by Naomi Nye | ||
| مجلة کلية الأداب - جامعة حلوان | ||
| Article 7, Volume 51, Issue 2, July 2020, Pages 205-240 PDF (2.01 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/kgef.2020.225103 | ||
| Author | ||
| Salma Ahmed Ezz El-Din* | ||
| Helwan University. Faculty of Arts English Department. Literature Section | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Multiculturalism has become a familiar topic in picture books around the world. The genre of multicultural children’s literature approaches children by reflecting on their realities in a multicultural society and guides them to embrace the multicultural identity. Multicultural children’s literature plays an important part in children’s lives, purposefully it develops in the child reader values including morality and ethics, a sense of what is valuable in the culture’s past and aspirations about the present and the future. Giving children access to all varieties of literature is extremely important as it teaches them to be open and curious about different cultures. It also helps them appreciate diverse ways of life. Children’s literature transmits important literature and themes from one generation to the next. It is important because it provides children with opportunities to respond to literature; it gives them an appreciation for their cultural heritage as well as those of others. Children’s picture books combine verbal narratives and visual figures, both the text and the illustrations are very important to the development of the story. The study of the multicultural picture book Sitti’s Secret (1994) will tackle the different tools and techniques that were used by the author Naomi Nye and the illustrator Nancy Carpenter based on the book analysis. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Multicultural Literature; Children’s Literature; Picture Books; Diversity; Identity | ||
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