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Children's Librarian Mode: Activated
Jun. 18th, 2020 11:28 amSince June is Pride Month and tomorrow is Juneteenth and both my country and the Harry Potter fandom are on metaphorical fire right now, I have decided to put on my (white) children's librarian hat to ADDRESS SOME STUFF and, in no particular order, PROVIDE SOME RESOURCES!
First up: a plug for your local library (obvs) and, failing that, for bookshop.org, which is the indie bookstore response to Amazon. If you want to be more intentional in your book-buying, here is a list of BIPOC-owned indie bookstores you can order from.
With book sourcing out of the way, we can move on to our first topic: JKR. Unfortunately, this stands for J. K. Rowling and not 'Just Kidding, Right???'
( What does 'death of the author' mean? )
( One fan's reasoning behind continuing to read the Harry Potter books )
And now we can get on to the fun part: book recs! People who read fiction develop more empathy and emotional intelligence, two things we could use a lot more of in this world.
( So you don't want to read Harry Potter but you still want to read a fantasy series )
( Some good queer books for kids )
( Kids' books with black main characters who get to have fun )
( So you also want to read grownup books for grownups )
Phew, that's a lot of linking! If anyone has more books or resources they'd like to add, please comment and tell me and I'll add them to the lists. Thanks to the lockdown I don't have access to a lot of my usual library resources, so I'm going mostly off memory for this post. As I come across more stuff I'll add it too!
First up: a plug for your local library (obvs) and, failing that, for bookshop.org, which is the indie bookstore response to Amazon. If you want to be more intentional in your book-buying, here is a list of BIPOC-owned indie bookstores you can order from.
With book sourcing out of the way, we can move on to our first topic: JKR. Unfortunately, this stands for J. K. Rowling and not 'Just Kidding, Right???'
( What does 'death of the author' mean? )
( One fan's reasoning behind continuing to read the Harry Potter books )
And now we can get on to the fun part: book recs! People who read fiction develop more empathy and emotional intelligence, two things we could use a lot more of in this world.
( So you don't want to read Harry Potter but you still want to read a fantasy series )
( Some good queer books for kids )
( Kids' books with black main characters who get to have fun )
( So you also want to read grownup books for grownups )
Phew, that's a lot of linking! If anyone has more books or resources they'd like to add, please comment and tell me and I'll add them to the lists. Thanks to the lockdown I don't have access to a lot of my usual library resources, so I'm going mostly off memory for this post. As I come across more stuff I'll add it too!
