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Author: Adrianne Russell
Diversity: The Never Ending Story
by, Adrianne Russell
October 14, 2014

I’ve been reading since I was three years old and I can’t remember a time when diversity wasn’t an issue in children’s literature. Week after week, I’d peruse the Scholastic book orders searching for brown faces. Other than Michael Jackson biographies or the occasional Dynamite magazine cover featuring Kim Fields or the cast of The Cosby Show, the pickings were slim. It didn’t keep me from being a voracious reader but… [Read More]

Filed Under: children's literature, control the story, Diversity, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation
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