Robertson, Debra. “Portraying Persons with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction for Children and Teenagers.” New Providence: Reed Reference Publishing Company, 1992.
For my critical resource, I chose to review Portraying Persons with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction for Children and Teenagers, I found this review to be quite helpful. Not only did the book provide titles of books and subsequent reviews representing specific categories of disabilities such as orthopedic, neurological, or visual disabilities, but the book list resources to find other accurate and authentic sources. It also provided readers with the criterion used to critically review these books.
I really appreciated how detailed and honest the author was when reviewing books. Both negative and positive portrayals are listed within this book. What I learned most can be summed up in these words. “Anyone who wants to build skills in literary criticism or who seeks a model for perspective comparisons of portrayals of impairments and disabilities would do well to study the less positive or negative reviews included...” (3). She goes on to discuss that she urges readers to reflect on the weaknesses and strong points of each book before deciding whether or not to add it to any collection. (3). I believe that readers need to seriously survey any misconceptions that can be drawn from the text and to weigh how damaging they may prove to be.
For my critical resource, I chose to review Portraying Persons with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction for Children and Teenagers, I found this review to be quite helpful. Not only did the book provide titles of books and subsequent reviews representing specific categories of disabilities such as orthopedic, neurological, or visual disabilities, but the book list resources to find other accurate and authentic sources. It also provided readers with the criterion used to critically review these books.
I really appreciated how detailed and honest the author was when reviewing books. Both negative and positive portrayals are listed within this book. What I learned most can be summed up in these words. “Anyone who wants to build skills in literary criticism or who seeks a model for perspective comparisons of portrayals of impairments and disabilities would do well to study the less positive or negative reviews included...” (3). She goes on to discuss that she urges readers to reflect on the weaknesses and strong points of each book before deciding whether or not to add it to any collection. (3). I believe that readers need to seriously survey any misconceptions that can be drawn from the text and to weigh how damaging they may prove to be.
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