Professional Book Reviews: The Transformative Possibility of Collaboration

Books reviewed for the issue’s Professional Book Reviews column are: Children’s Language: Connecting Reading, Writing and Talk (2008) by Judith Wells Lindfors; Designing Socially Just Learning Communities: Critical Literacy Education across the Lifespan (2009) by Rebecca Rogers, Melissa Mosley, Mary Ann Kramer, and The Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group; and Negotiating Literacy Learning: Exploring the Challenges and Achievements of Struggling Readers, K-6 (2008), edited by Janine K. Bixler.