36 Children

36 Children is the 1967 memoir of Herbert Kohl's service as a young teacher working in an impoverished New York public school. The book includes a chapter titled "Journey through Space and Time", written and illustrated by Robert George Jackson III, one of his students, age eleven. Other material written and illustrated by Jackson and other students is included in the book. First published in 1967 by the New American Library, it was republished in September 1988 by the Penguin Group,[1] Reviewer Peter Schrag commented that the work contains "tough but (usually) sympathetic kids, callous administrators, and a collection of fearful school types spouting hate through their pieties and educational nonsense through their apathy" while "the writer-protagonist is part anthropologist fascinated by the ghetto, part muckraking journalist, and part teacher struggling manfully to work with the children placed in his care."[2]

36 Children
First paperback edition cover
AuthorHerbert Kohl
IllustratorRobert George Jackson, III
Subjecteducation
Published1967 (Signet/New American Library)
Media typecloth, paperback
Pages224
ISBN978-0452264632
372.9/7471
LC ClassLC2803.H3 K6

References
  1. "36 Children". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
  2. Schrag, Peter (January 1968). "36 Children, by Herbert Kohl; Death at an Early Age, by Jonathan Kozol". Commentary Magazine. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
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