Book
Dear reader : a love letter to libraries / Tiffany Rose.
A voracious young reader pens a love letter to libraries and books, and powerfully expresses the need for diversity and the importance of representation in stories.
Record details
- ISBN: 1499812256
- ISBN: 9781499812251
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little Bee Books, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 4-8. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 23.99 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Books and reading > Juvenile fiction. Libraries > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | STO JP Rose | 31681020189718 | PICTURE | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
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. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
A voracious young reader pens a love letter to libraries and books, and powerfully expresses the need for diversity and the importance of representation in stories. - Simon and Schuster
A young Black girl pens a love letter to libraries and books, powerfully expressing the need to see herself represented in stories. From the author that brought you M Is for Melanin.
"A rousing call to action for more racially diverse children's literature." -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
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 of color, and the only ones that do tell about the most painful parts of their history. Where are the Black heroines with Afros exploring other planets and the superheroes with 'locs saving the day?
