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Containing essays from a range of critical viewpoints and perspectives on Latino/a children's and young adult literature of the Americas, The Americas Award is...intellectually stimulating in ways that surpass the limited confines of its specialty subject matter.... By pulling together many disparate strands within this contentious field, the collection provides a timely and astute critique of the crisis of acculturation affecting American children's literature today and its potentially devastating implications for multicultural awareness and harmony.... This volume, therefore, successfully shows the relevance of Latino/a literature not only as an important genre in its own right, but also as a lens through which to view the problems of race and culture that pervade American society, and as an example of the ways in which the children's literature genre functions as a tool of acculturation and division.... The Americas Award: Honoring Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Literature of the Americas provides an inspirational range of perspectives on the difficult question of multiculturalism for children. * International Research in Children's Literature *

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Laretta Henderson is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature.

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