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by Augusta BakerIn the 1920's and 1930's, children's books seemed to foster prejudice by planting false images in the minds of children. Most authors were white, with little knowledge about black life, and yet they wrote as if they were authorities. No wonder it was an accepted fact in children's...
by Lois LenskiHuckleberry mountain library — the only rural library in Henderson County, North Carolina — is open for two hours every other Sunday afternoon to the mountain children, and was to be open on December 23. Packages of books from three of my publishers arrived on the 22nd, just...
What's odd about the direction this discussion has taken is that I agree with Sharon Flake about almost everything. Flake points out that she and many other readers of every race are much more compelled by stories of triumph over immediate, real-world trouble than by distant fantasy or lighter fare....
When you are young and black and living in the inner city — people think they know you. They like to tell you what to read, why the way you speak is all wrong and why that outfit you are wearing is not appropriate for school. Sometimes they are right....
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