Community Conversation: Importance of Diversity in Children’s Literature
January 22, 2021
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The push for more diversity in children鈥檚 literature has seen a big resurgence in the last year, but in an age where many young students are spending a lot more time isolated, the books they read could be having a bigger socio-emotional impact than ever before.
In this Community Conversation, NBC 5 Today鈥檚 Laura Harris talks with North Texas author Sharon Jones-Scaife and聽JVID视频 North Texas聽representative Kyra Horton about not just diversity in books for minority children, but the reason it鈥檚 important for children in the minority as well.
Jones-Scaife has her own series of children鈥檚 books she wrote and illustrated. You can find them on her聽聽or Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Walmart.com, Target.com.
