we need diverse books
Today, my librarian friends, I want to ask a question of you that’s essential to your profession: “What’s on your bookshelf?”
Part 1/4 of my presentation from AAIM (Arkansas Association of Instructional Media) 2019.
I feel like I am truly getting closer to my dream. Thanks to my overactive imagination, I can almost smell the picture book newness with my name on it. In real life, while I’m waiting to hear back from publishers, I am continuing to write. After all, that’s what you do to avoid stalking your… Read more »
This week on Twitter, I had a super brief conversation (after all, it is Twitter) in which I agreed that having diversity simply for the sake of diversity in literature is an epic fail. To be honest, I hadn’t even thought of this as an issue until the original poster’s tweet graced me with its… Read more »
The We Need Diverse Books folks have done a great job of making one thing clear: We do, in fact, need diverse books. They have their reasons and their mission, and I’m all for it. Still, I have my own reasons as to why I have chosen to write diverse children’s books. I was an only… Read more »