Resources for teaching children about social and racial justice issues.
Today we have a special guest on Biracial Bookworms. Author Sonia Panigrahy shares many of the same values as I do to provide girls, as well as ALL children with diverse female superheroes and book characters to look up to as role models. If you read my blog series of everyday female everyday superheroes, you met […]
When I left California to start teaching in international schools, all of the sudden I had kids from 10 different countries speaking 8 different languages under one roof. To create a diverse bookshelf that represented my students and their experiences was the first task on my list. I had to study long and hard in […]
Why We Need Diverse Books As book bloggers, we all have one thing in common: we love to read. Genres, writing styles, trope preferences, book formatting, reading pace, blogging pace – these are all subcategories that vary greatly amongst us, but there’s one thing common for all of us, which is our love for literature. […]
For millions of children around the world, access to education is an impossible dream. Little girls and boys need to live in an imaginary world with superheroes like Wonder Woman and Spiderman. However, they also need to see a person who cares about them meeting the needs of their every day life. Last week I […]
Have you been swept away this week by the Wonder Woman craze like the rest of the world? A superhero so amazing that boys and girls alike want to be like her; count me in! The global impact this (SH)ero is making on little boys and girls is breathtaking. Here are 7 reasons we love […]
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