Books Are Mirrors Windows And Sliding Glass Doors
These windows are also sliding glass doors and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author.
Books are mirrors windows and sliding glass doors. Rudine simms bishop coined the terms in her 1990 article mirrors windows and sliding glass doors originally published in the ohio state university perspectives. It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published. The stonewall book awards has categories for children and youth including non fiction 1 dr. In the essay dr.
Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors author. Bishop coined the phrase windows mirrors and sliding glass doors to explain how children see themselves in books and how they can also learn about the lives of others through literature. Books are sometimes windows offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined familiar or strange.