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Reach Out and Read

Jun 24, 2021

All parents face challenges somewhere along the journey of raising children.  But some groups of parents deal with issues that don’t necessarily affect all.  Drs Nia Heard-Garris and Nevin Heard join us to talk about how Black children in American navigate racial identity development and awareness, and how...


Jun 10, 2021

In Part 2 of our series on LGBTQ+ children’s books, we talk to Dr. Jamie Campbell Naidoo, a professor at the University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies.  We discuss how to evaluate LGBTQ+ books for kids, common portrayals of ‘rainbow families’ in children’s books, balancing accessibility...


Jun 10, 2021

The publication of Charlotte Zolotow’s picture book William’s Doll (1972) not only broke gender stereotypes, but became a landmark moment in American children’s literature.  In a bonus episode of our “Inner Truths: LGBTQ” series, host Dr. Perri Klass speaks with Charlotte’s daughter, Crescent Dragonwagon (a...