Books About the Middle East: Selecting and Using them with Children and Adolescents

by Tami Al-Hazza, Katherine Toth Bucher

Overview

Learn all about Middle Eastern culture and how to use that literature in K-12 schools to promote understanding.

• Use this one-stop resource for information on Middle Eastern culture and literature
• Share this resource with classroom teachers to make your school more inclusive and culturally responsive
• Chapters provide background information about the countries and peoples of the place, literature related to the region and to the major ethnic groups of the region, guidelines for selecting children's and young adult literature about the region, and strategies for incorporation

This new resource includes an annotated bibliography of children's and young adult books with evaluations, reading/interest level, review sources, awards/prizes, and Accelerated Reader/Reading Counts availability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781586832858
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/2008
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Tami Craft Al-Hazza is an assistant professor, education curriculum and instruction at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.

Katherine T. Bucher is a professor and assistant department chair, Graduate Program Director of Library Science, Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.

Editorial Reviews

The authors offer a history of the region including information on its diverse populations. They discuss selection criteria for books about the Middle East and provide an extensive, up-to-date annotated bibliography of relevant, quality literature. Explicit strategies for integrating recommended materials into the curriculum are given. A timely and important text.” —School Library Jourbanal

“The authors have packed a lot of information about the cultures, religions, politics, and geography of the Middle East into this well-organized volume. It's a solid guide for educators who want to teach their students about the region or who would like a good bibliography. The last section includes selected activities to be used with students. The book is well footnoted, and the authors' expertise is clear, although facts randomly culled from other sources sometimes provide a slightly haphazard overview. The authors are occasionally a bit heavy-handed in their desire to be sensitive to the area's cultures, occasionally leaning toward stereotypical portrayals or reaching a degree of insensitivity to readers' other cultures. Overall, though, this is a book that teachers and librarians would find useful, and for the extensive bibliography alone, it is a worthwhile purchase.” —School Library Jourbanal

“…worth having and recommended for all libraries.” —Catholic Library World

From the Publisher

"…worth having and recommended for all libraries."

Catholic Library World

The authors have packed a lot of information about the cultures, religions, politics, and geography of the Middle East into this well-organized volume. It's a solid guide for educators who want to teach their students about the region or who would like a good bibliography. The last section includes selected activities to be used with students. The book is well footnoted, and the authors' expertise is clear, although facts randomly culled from other sources sometimes provide a slightly haphazard overview. The authors are occasionally a bit heavy-handed in their desire to be sensitive to the area's cultures, occasionally leaning toward stereotypical portrayals or reaching a degree of insensitivity to readers' other cultures. Overall, though, this is a book that teachers and librarians would find useful, and for the extensive bibliography alone, it is a worthwhile purchase.-Sharon Senser McKellar, Oakland Public Library, CA

School Library Journal