Contents

• A toiler, a teller / Virginia Hamilton
• The next America / Arnold Adoff
• The magic of imagining : transaction with young adult fiction and poetry / Arlene Harris Mitchell
• A conversation with Patricia and Fredrick McKissack / Anthony L. Manna and Carolyn S. Brodie
• MakingThe journey / Sheila Hamanaka
• A journey toward a common ground : the struggle and identity of Hispanics in the U.S.A. / Nicholasa Mohr
• The mythic dimensions of Appalachia / Gary D. Schmidt
• Literature in the pediatric setting : the use of books to help meet the emotional and cognitive needs of chronically ill children / Marcella F. Anderson
• Jewish American experiences in children’s books / Esther Cohen Hexter
• "Deep like the rivers" / Ashley Bryan
• Word magic / Barbara Juster Esbensen
• The African American folktale in the primary classroom / Darwin L. Henderson