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Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries

3.7/5 ( ratings)

This book is a tribute to the power of libraries and books and about 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?

Pages: 32

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: little bee books

Release: February 08, 2022

ISBN: 1499812256

ISBN 13: 9781499812251

Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries

3.7/5 ( ratings)

This book is a tribute to the power of libraries and books and about 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?

Pages: 32

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: little bee books

Release: February 08, 2022

ISBN: 1499812256

ISBN 13: 9781499812251

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