If we review the criteria as presented by A Checklist to Evaluate Children's Books that Address Disability as a Part of Diversity ( Colin has an unspecified illness that has rendered him bedridden and unable to walk. Then there is Colin, her uncle's son, hidden away, abandoned physically by his mother's accidental death and emotionally by his grieving father. We recall this novel (reminiscent of adult Victorian Gothic Literature) of Mary Lennox, a child of English colonists in India, orphaned and unloved (and unlovable), traumatized by her circumstances, and dropped in the country estate of an uncle she never had met. Our goal is to lovingly encourage educators to begin equipping children with insights and strategies that can be used to interrupt these systems in collective and intentional ways" ( Engaging Children in Conversations about Oppression Using Children's Literature, Gloria Boutte and Meir Muller). "We understand that racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and other forms of oppression represent systems of inequity that are embedded, translated, and practiced in policies, laws, and social mores.
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