Think Aloud: why are children's books stuck in the past?
In this episode of our 2018/19 podcast series Think Aloud, Harriet Fitch Little is joined by Ade Adepitan and Imogen Russell Williams
The trio came together, ahead of our Imagine Children’s Festival, to talk about the lack of diversity in children’s literature.
Fitch Little spoke to the paralympian, TV presenter and children’s author and the children’s book critic to ask why is children’s literature so far behind when it comes to diverse characters? And who should be dealing with this – the authors, the publishers or the parents?
The episode also features children’s author and illustrator Nadine Kaadan, who answers the burning question: how do you create a character for children?
‘I suddenly started to get a perception that certain people did certain things, that main protagonists, that strong characters, that hero characters were all white, middle class’
Ade Adepitan
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