US scholars of education recommend books of African American and African literature that are suitable for children and adolescents. Though acknowledging that in many respects African and
African-American cultures are different, they argue that exposing students to both at the same time provides greater insight. In sections on pre-kindergarten to third grade, upper elementary
and middle grades four to eight, and high school grades nine to twelve, they consider such topics as traditional families in recently published African American children's literature for the
early grades, sharing culturally relevant literature with preschool children and their families, young black adolescents reading through the grief, engaging hearts and minds with excellent
nonfiction literature, Michael Anthony's The Year in San Fernando and Cyril Everard Palmers's The Cloud with the Silver Lining as young adult fiction portraying black poverty in the
postcolonial Anglophone Caribbean, and disability in Africana adolescent literature. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
