On the Shoulders of Giants: Celebrating African American Authors of Young Adult Literature - Paperback

by Steven T. Bickmore (Editor), Shanetia P. Clark (Editor)

This book is a valuable tool teachers can use to help their students be inspired by literary giants who created and shaped the AAYA field.

Author Biography

Steven T. Bickmore is an Associate professor of English Education at UNLV and maintains a weekly academic blog on YA literature (http: //www.yawednesday.com/). He is a past editor of The ALAN Review (2009-2014) and a founding editor of Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature. Shanetia P. Clark, Ph.D. is an associate professor of literacy in the Department of Early and Elementary Education at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. Her interests include young adult and children's literature, the exploration of aesthetic experiences within reading and writing classrooms, and writing pedagogy