Reviews

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Popular Culture, in all its forms, is educative and can be considered a part of “public pedagogy”

Popular culture is central to my scholarship interests because popular culture, in all of its various forms, as something that teaches us about the world in informal ways. Drawing on my critical feminist stance, the works I review here are informed by this thinking.

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I should mention that I have been writing reviews for CM: Canadian Review of Materials for more than 20 years. My contributions have evolved (thankfully!) and you can read many of these, like my recent review of “Prom Kings” by Tony Correia at: https://www.cmreviews.ca

Grady, Cynthia (Author), & Hirao, Amiko (Illustrator). (2018).  Write to me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian they left behind. Watertown, MA:

Krosoczka, Jarrett J. (2009). Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. (Written July 7, 2019)

Chou, Rose L., & Pho, Annie (Eds.). (2018). Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS . Sacramento, CA: Litwin Press. (Written May 4, 2019)