Picture This! Leveraging Award-Winning Picture Books as Primary Sources in Secondary Social Studies shows how teachers can use picture books to teach secondary school students about social studies topics in American society.

Using Caldecott Award-winning books as primary sources, each chapter interprets 1–4 picture books to offer insights into how the U.S. has grappled with social and political issues and crises across time. This book demonstrates how to create classroom analysis of picture books as primary source documents, spurring conversations about the states of social justice in the U.S. With contributions from in-service secondary education teachers and university instructors, each chapter includes lesson plans and ideas, classroom objectives, example assessments for classroom use, and step-by-step illustrations of how the lessons can be replicated easily by teachers.

Packed with useful tools for use in the classroom, this book will be useful reading for in-service social studies teachers working in middle and high schools. It will also be beneficial reading for Social Studies Education and Civic Education courses.

Kristine Mensonides Gritter is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Seattle Pacific University, USA.

Dixie D. Massey is Visiting Lecturer at Seattle Pacific University, USA.

Julie Antilla-Garza is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Seattle Pacific University, USA.