What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A beloved classic is born! STORY STRUCTURE OF BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL PARATEXT If blackberries didn’t also exist, I think blueberries might just as easily have been called blackberries. The black is in fact a very deep blue, but at first glance could easily be mistaken for black, and the same could be said for blueberries themselves. I think this is worth saying, only because I’ve noticed a few consumer reviews talk about the ‘black and white’ illustrations. Note with a long sigh that 2020 was the year of the Central Park Birdwatching Incident, which is why white readers as well as Black readers need to see Black characters enjoying the great outdoors in picture books, for starters. Professor Michelle Martin, with a broad handle on the corpus of children’s literature can name only a few examples of Black children playing in nature: (Similarly, classic young-adult literature about outdoor exploration or wilderness survival is largely white and nonblack think Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves, and Dogsong.) The Atlantic, Where Is The Black Blueberries For Sal? A few (such as The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses and The Not-So Great Outdoors) feature protagonists of color who aren’t specifically African American, but broadly speaking, depictions of black kids as small wilderness adventurers are largely absent from the genre.
And of the books with this focus, Martin found, the majority of the best-known-from acclaimed older titles such as Owl Moon, Blueberries for Sal, and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to recent works such as Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots? and Jo MacDonald Hiked in the Woods-are about white kids. Quite the contrary, children’s literature has a considerable focus on the natural world-on plants and bugs, woods and mountains, animals of every variety.
Publishing was almost entirely white back then, and we still have a pipeline problem.Įxploring nature is not some obscure topic in children’s literature. In this particular example, the people are white because McCloskey himself was white and he used his own white family as models. It’s worth noting that the family of this story are white. Readers who know about the author and how he made it will easily place the story in Maine, as will readers familiar with the sequel, which overtly states the stories of Sal and her mother take place in Maine: err, One Morning in Maine. The entire story takes place on a hill in the wilderness of America. How does he accomplish that? Let’s take a look. McCloskey makes use of a number of established thriller genre techniques in this story, and creates an exciting yet cosy tale. Serge Gainsbourg parle de Stan The Flasher - 1990
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