Problem: Why was The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats deemed controversial? After reading the analysis of this picture book, what do you think? How can there be room for more than one reading of this particular text? According to the text " In A Broken Flute: The b Native Experience in Books for Children, Doris Seale writes, "Taking something that has not been offered to you does not make it yours. That makes it stolen. Stories are never free Because you have conquered a People does not give you a right to their spirit" (5). A culture's stories or stories about a culture are integral to that culture and to the identity of its members. To have one's stories taken or to have stories told about one group by an outsider from a politically and culturally dominant group is to exploit the vulnerability of the minority and to do further damage. Harris's depiction of Uncle Remus, told from the perspective of a white Southerner for a predominantly white audience, reinforced stereotypes of the happy slave who was devoted to his white master at the expense of his own best interests. This stereotype, which has done incalculable damage to generations of?