We need diverse books

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I think diversity in books for kids is vital because a child needs to see herself reflected in a story just as much as we need to learn about other people. It’s mirrors and windows, but I think the trend toward more diversity in books, own voices and seeing different cultures represented is fantastic because our country’s changing; our world’s changing, and kids need that.

Books need to have diverse characters to reflect our changing world and allow children to see themselves in the stories.

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Katherine Applegate

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Katherine Applegate is the author of many books for young readers, including the 2013 Newbery Medal winner The One and Only Ivan, Crenshaw, Home of the Brave, Wishtree, the Roscoe Riley Rules series, Endling, and with her husband, Michael Grant, the Animorphs series. In this interview, Applegate talks about life-changing books for reluctant readers (including kids with dyslexia), writing “first-person gorilla”, tackling tough topics, how books can change communities, and much more.

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We need diverse books

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