{"id":357,"date":"2021-02-01T10:57:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=357"},"modified":"2021-02-01T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:57:21","slug":"representation-matters-we-need-diverse-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/representation-matters-we-need-diverse-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Representation Matters: We Need Diverse Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why We Need Diverse Children&#039;s Books\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_8H-O8iA88?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today, we examined why having diversity in children&#8217;s literature is important. We did a &#8216;scavenger&#8217; hunt through our classroom library to try to find books that had characters that were similar to\/different from us.<\/p>\n<p>We noticed that, oftentimes, different cultural\/racial communities do not have as much representation.\u00a0 Here are some things that we noticed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>The Gauntlet\u00a0<\/em>is the first book I&#8217;ve read with a Muslim main character&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should try to find more books with multi-racial characters like <em>The New Kid&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are lots of book about Black history. I hope we can get more about women&#8217;s rights&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do we have any books with blind or deaf characters?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope more books will be published that have Indigenous characters (without stereotypes)&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think? Have you read a book with a character that represents you (culture, race, gender, family, etc.)?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the graph below to get some more insight into diverse representation in children&#8217;s literature publishing!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/02\/wndb-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/02\/wndb-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/02\/wndb-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/02\/wndb-108x108.png 108w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/02\/wndb.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we examined why having diversity in children&#8217;s literature is important. We did a &#8216;scavenger&#8217; hunt through our classroom library to try to find books that had characters that were similar to\/different from us. We noticed that, oftentimes, different cultural\/racial communities do not have as much representation.\u00a0 Here are some things that we noticed: &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/representation-matters-we-need-diverse-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Representation Matters: We Need Diverse Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}