Publisher Knights Of has reached its £30,000 crowdfunding target to fund a bookshop selling children’s books with BAME characters. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hiring more employees of colour and seeing stories with BAME characters as normal, not niche, are just some ideas suggested by the book industry following a damning report which revealed that only 4% of all the children’s books published in the UK last year featured a black, Asian or minority... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ethnic minority characters should feature in more books and not be defined by their "otherness". Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Almost a third of school-age children are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. But they will still struggle to find characters who resemble themselvesBooks can show us the world both as it is, and as it could be – “mirrors and windows”, as the author Malorie Blackman notes. For... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]