childrens literature

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• SOURCE: TIME
  3/26/2021
  

  Beverly Cleary, Legendary Children's Author Who Quietly Revolutionized Kid Lit, Dies at 104

  "She often credited one young library patron for launching her literary career after the boy stubbornly lamented––as she once did––that he couldn’t find any books about kids 'like us'."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/9/2021
  

  Dr. Philip Nel on the Legacy of Dr. Seuss

  "A lot of people have a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea that an artist and a writer can be both a genius and a racist, can do brilliant work and be profoundly damaging. Those are not mutually exclusive categories."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/18/2020
  

  The Black Women Who Launched the Original Anti-Racist Reading List

  by Ashley Dennis

  Black women librarians have been important leaders in promoting books and publishing standards that encourage readers to recognize human dignity and reject racist stereotypes in children's literature.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/7/19
  

  The Gay History of America’s Classic Children’s Books

  From “Frog and Toad” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” many of the most enduring 20th-century titles share a secret language of queer compassion.

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• SOURCE: Literary Hub
  1/14/19
  

  A Brief History of Children's Literature: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

  by Jennifer Traig

  For most of history, authors have used their words to render children speechless.