hotographs of Dorothea Lange and Margaret Bourke-White, respectively, span such topics as WWII, the Great Depression, Japanese American internment, and the Holocaust. Young adult selections such as Autumn Street (Houghton, 1980) and Number the Stars (Houghton, 1989), both by Lois Lowry, Journey to Topaz (Creative Arts, 1971) and Journey Home (Simon & Schuster, 1978), both by Yoshiko Uchida, and Out of the Dust (Scholastic, 1997) by Karen Hesse parallel these major events. Picture-book comparisons are also informative; for example, in The Bracelet (Philomel, 1993) by Yoshiko Uchida, one can see the visual echoes of actual documentary photographs taken by Lange.
Pat Joel is a reading teacher who recently completed an online certificate program in youth literature and technology from Rutgers University.