# Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries - Hardcover

by **Tiffany Rose** (Author)

**"****A rousing call to action for more racially diverse children's literature." -_Kirkus Reviews_, STARRED REVIEW**

**In this book a young girl pens a love letter to libraries and books, and powerfully expresses the need for diversity and the importance of representation in stories!**

_There was just this one thing, this nagging suspicion, that I didn't meet the criteria for a heroine'__s condition._

_In the books that I read, an absence of melanin was a clear omission._

A voracious young reader loves nothing more than going to the library and poring through books all day, making friends with characters and going off on exciting adventures with them. However, the more she reads, the more she notices that most of the books don't have characters that look like her, and the only ones that do tell about the most painful parts of their history. Where are the heroines with Afros exploring other planets and the superheroes with 'locs saving the day?

### Author Biography

Tiffany Rose is a left-handed illustrator and author who's currently living and working in China. She's a lover of coffee, wanderlust, massive curly Afros, and children being their imaginative, quirky, free selves. She is a full-time teacher, part-time author/illustrator, and world traveler. Rose remembers what it was like as a brown child not seeing herself reflected in the books and characters she loved so dearly, and has been inspired to create art and meaningful stories, like this book and her debut, _M Is for Melanin_, so that underrepresented children can see themselves in books. Pencil in hand, she's changing that notion one illustration at a time.

**Number of Pages:** 32

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 9.3 x 9.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** February 08, 2022

## Details

- **Price:** 17.99 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books by splitShops, Shopify Collective

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