Diversify LexLiterature
Make Lexington a Better Place to Learn
Our Goal
Through our project we aim to make literature accessible and enjoyable to all. Reading provides both an escape into other worlds, and helps us reflect on our own lives. We hope to make it easier for every person to have books to see their identity reflected in, and to be able to learn about other's experiences.
"Our classrooms need to be places where all the children from all the cultures that make up the salad bowl of American society can find their mirrors....If [children from dominant groups] only see reflections of themselves, they will grow up with an exaggerated sense of their own importance and value in the world--a dangerous ethnocentrism."
~ Rudine Sims Bishop
Why Change?
Is children's literature actually lacking representation? Take a look at the statistics below.
