The Girl with the Brown Crayon By Vivian Gussin Paley
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1997 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0674354397 | PDF | 3 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1997 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0674354397 | PDF | 3 MB
A beautifully realized, deceptively simple classroom memoir from a longtime kindergarten teacher and author. Paley begins the narrative of her final year of teaching by focusing on Reeny, a self-assured, thoughtful, and creative black five-year-old girl in a class that's mostly Caucasian and Asian. Reeny is a wonderful character, but it is her identification with another character, Frederick the mouse in a Leo Lionni children's book, that is the catalyst for a truly remarkable classroom experience…