Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries

"A rousing call to action for more racially diverse children's literature." -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW In this...
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Author: Tiffany Rose
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Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries by Rose, Tiffany

Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries

$217.11

Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries

$217.11
Author: Tiffany Rose
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"A rousing call to action for more racially diverse children's literature." -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW

In this book a young girl pens a love letter to libraries and books, and powerfully expresses the need for diversity and the importance of representation in stories!

There was just this one thing, this nagging suspicion, that I didn't meet the criteria for a heroine's condition.

In the books that I read, an absence of melanin was a clear omission.

A voracious young reader loves nothing more than going to the library and poring through books all day, making friends with characters and going off on exciting adventures with them. However, the more she reads, the more she notices that most of the books don't have characters that look like her, and the only ones that do tell about the most painful parts of their history. Where are the heroines with Afros exploring other planets and the superheroes with 'locs saving the day?

Author: Tiffany Rose
Publisher: Little Bee Books
Published: 02/08/2022
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.30h x 9.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781499812251
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021
Booklist 03/25/2022
Publishers Weekly 04/25/2022

About the Author
Tiffany Rose is a left-handed illustrator and author who's currently living and working in China. She's a lover of coffee, wanderlust, massive curly Afros, and children being their imaginative, quirky, free selves. She is a full-time teacher, part-time author/illustrator, and world traveler. Rose remembers what it was like as a brown child not seeing herself reflected in the books and characters she loved so dearly, and has been inspired to create art and meaningful stories, like this book and her debut, M Is for Melanin, so that underrepresented children can see themselves in books. Pencil in hand, she's changing that percentage one illustration at a time.

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