Professional Book Reviews: Cultivating Academic Literacy in Critical and Culturally Responsive Ways

We began with this guiding question: which professional resources focus on academic literacy development in critical and culturally responsive ways? We selected 4 books: Reading Lives: Working-class Children and Literacy Learning (Hicks), African American Literacies (Richardson), Widening the Circle: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for American Indian Children (Klug & Whitfield), and Multicultural Strategies for Educational Change: Carriers of the Torch in the United States and Africa (Ball).