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In doing research for a grad school course, I came across this article that discusses the importance of children being exposed to diversity in literature. The author, BJ Epstein, states "Despite knowing how important it is for diversity to be represented in our day-to-day lives, many children’s books are still littered with white, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender, nominally Christian characters. And research suggests that over 80% of characters in children’s books are white – which clearly doesn’t reflect the reality of our world." She continues to explain that the statistics showing how white washed our literature is was the inspiration behind the creating of the We Need Diverse Books movement. Founded by Ellen Oh and Malinda Lo, the movement's goal is to bring the problem to light, educate us on how we can correct it, and teach the importance of works that give us access to the worlds of others. Diversebooks.org offers too many resources to list. They are tools that can be used to broach tough subjects and add diversity to our library shelves. It is an amazing resource for any media specialist. Watch a video about WNDB and what they do.
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