![]() ![]() Grace Lin perfectly captures the back and forth of a close friendship between two very different people, and like Arnold Lobel, highlights those differences as the root of the loving humor in her stories. If you were ever a fan of Frog & Toad, you will love Ling & Ting. Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same, by Grace Lin, Little, Brown and Company, 2010 So for today’s Windows/Mirrors Book Review, and in honor of the Year of the Monkey, I am pleased to present, telling her own story: But what happens when privileged writers claim the diverse spaces on publishers’ booklists when we know that those spaces are limited? Writers of color and other diverse backgrounds can get edged out of the opportunity to tell their own stories, as described by Jacqueline Woodson in her post “Who Can Tell My Story?”. ![]() That is not to say that authors can never cross color/other lines in their fiction–many writers of many backgrounds do this successfully. ![]() She challenges white writers to support #WNDB by reading, buying and promoting diverse books, not necessarily by attempting to write them. Ellen Oh‘s article Dear White Writers poses some interesting questions for me as a curator of this Diverse Book Review series. ![]()
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