Kaleidoscope is back, once again offering students, teachers, and librarians a helpful guide to the best multicultural literature for elementary and middle school readers. With approximately 600 annotations on topics and formats including picture storybooks, realistic fiction, history and historical fiction, ceremonies and celebrations, biographies and autobiographies, informational books, poetry, and folklore, this volume focuses on books by and about people of color. The editor has provided a handy list of publisher addresses, and author, title, and subject indexes make it easy to locate specific books or hunt for texts on a particular theme or topic. Celebrating our diverse and ever-changing world, Kaleidoscope contains something for every reader. 248 pp. 2001. Grades K–8. ISBN 0-8141-2540-9. No. 25409
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