And so throughout the weekend, we kept coming back to the questions of who should write these “diverse” books, what should they be about, and where should they—or will they—find their readers. These questions tend to complicate the issue (as all good discussions do), and create a back and forth between narrow and broad definitions of what constitutes “diversity” in children’s literature that is just now beginning to be explored by conferences and organizations such as SCBWI and the CBC Diversity Committee, to name just a couple.
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