dr seuss books that weren’t written by dr seuss. troubling 🤔
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i guarantee there’s no better way to pass your anxieties on to the next generation than by writing children’s books totally suffused with them
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the most antiracist possible children’s book would be some shit like “wow look at all these cool fucking rocks,” you want to get children concretely engaged with the world and *not* with their identities
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you think black girls won’t notice they’re apparently the only kids who need an entire bookshelf to tell them that they’re “enough”???
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from the faces on the books alone you’d think black girls make up 70% of the population, meanwhile apparently 2% of the actual population of this city is black. so who are these books *for*???
meanwhile redmond is 36% asian and there’s *zero* asian representation
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in conclusion: how do i become a children’s book author, apparently they’ll let any old millennial do this shit now
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i have much more interesting anxieties to pass on to the next generation, such as: “is god dead?” “have we forgotten how to run civilization?” “have we called up that which we don’t know how to put down?”
gotta be worth a book deal or two
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His Asian representation point is an observation that the representation doesn’t reflect the local demographics (by a far margin) in support of his “who is this for?” Point
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I’m near Bellevue and have similar thoughts when I walk across these bookshelves
Top left of the photo (cut off) also has "Eyes that Kiss in the Corners" by Joanna Ho, which is also Asian representation. But yeah, the overall diversity may not reflect the local population.
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Not to be pedantic but one of the girls on one of the book covers seems to be Asian.
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when I was teaching I tried to get the children's book faces to roughly match the faces in my classroom (in both of the schools I tried this, the books were 99-100% white, London is apparently not as progressive as you might think)
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I also bought age-appropriate books about kids with autism and OCD. Only thing I ever spent my own money on when teaching.
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