Guest Post by Austin Author Liz Garton Scanlon
This is the third week in a series of author guest posts about diversity in children’s literature and the BookPeople Modern First Library initiative. For more about BookPeople’s Modern First Library initiative, and for more recommendations of wonderful new and classic picture books to read, visit bookpeople.com.
Previous posts in this series:
Chris Barton: A Modern First Library List
Chris Barton: Loved, valued, unique? Yes. Center of the universe?
Cynthia Leitich Smith: Books as mirrors
Cynthia Leitich Smith: This book is for you
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At our beloved neighborhood school, you can find kids who speak Spanish, kids on the autism spectrum, and kids who have two moms; kids whose parents are divorced, kids who spend every summer with family in India, and kids who are differently-abled; kids with dyslexia, kids from interracial families, and kids who were adopted; kids who wear…
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