Books Are Mirrors Windows And Sliding Glass Doors

Books are sometimes windows offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined familiar or strange.

Books are mirrors windows and sliding glass doors.

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. Rudine simms bishop coined the terms in her 1990 article mirrors windows and sliding glass doors originally published in the ohio state university perspectives. 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. An article by rudine sims bishop children s literature scholar and recipient of the coretta scott king virginia hamilton award for lifetime achievement expands this concept even further.

Choosing and using books for the classroom. Bishop makes the point that it s crucial for children from marginalized groups to view themselves in the books they read. It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published.