African and African American Children’s and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom - A Critical Guide

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Associate Professor of Literacy/Children's Literature at The Pennsylvania State University – University Park, has published articles in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, The New Advocate, Language Arts, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, International Review of Education, and Bookbird : A Journal of International Children's Literature, among others.
Her most recent book is Representing Africa in Children's Literature : Old and New Ways of Seeing. In addition, she is an assistant editor of Sankofa : Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature, and she is currently serving on the editorial boards of Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL) and Language Arts. Mary Napoli is Associate Professor of Reading and Children's Literature at The Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in children's and adolescent literature, language arts, and children's literature and writing.
Prior to working at the university level, Dr. Napoli taught kindergarten and first grade in the Pocono Mountain School District. Her research interests include the integration of multicultural literature across the curriculum and girls' responses to popular cultural texts. She currently serves on the Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts Committee and the National Council of Teachers of English Excellence in Poetry for Children Committee.