Books as Window, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors

“Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.” 

--Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, Professor Emerita, Ohio State University

Mission

KidLit in Color amplifies BIPOC and indigenous voices in the publishing industry via our website, blog and social media. 

We feature traditionally published picture books, chapter books, middle grade, young adult and fiction and nonfiction.

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