The argument against Caps For Sale is that it lacks cultural responsiveness. An after-story discussion of the various ways families care for a child’s hair boosts the culturally responsiveness of the book.
Wanless and Patrica A Crawford, in their article “Reading Your Way to a Culturally Responsive Classroom”, use the example of the popular children’s book I Love My Hair by Natasha Tarpley. In other words, it exposes students to stories of their own and other cultures in a safe, accepting, and normalizing way. My understanding of the term is that culturally responsive books are stories that take into consideration the culture of your students as well as the culture not of your students. Is it really culturally unresponsive, and, if it is, is it okay to read it anyway?Įducation tosses around new key terms just about every millisecond, so let’s first determine what we mean by culturally responsive. When I was done fit throwing, I considered the cultural unresponsiveness of Caps For Sale. BOOKS (LIKE HUMANS) AREN’T USELESS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE OLD. I apologize in advance for pulling out the all caps again, but Twitter made me do it.
What is wrong with Caps For Sale? My kids loved it. The tweets were met with the Twitter equivalent of applause.Īnd that’s when I shook my fists and stamped my feet. Teachers posted this argument on Twitter just the other day. These are the reasons mentioned on teacher Twitter recently for ridding your classroom of Caps For Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina.
“I roll my eyes every time someone suggests a book to me that’s over 70 years old.”
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