Black Children’s Books and Authors:
“Understanding your audience is essential. What do you know for sure about the audience you are writing for?
I can’t tell you how many skits, memes, and videos I’ve seen lately of someone showcasing the way their mom (usually Black, Latina / Indigenous, Arab, or Asian) handles food: frying things in boiling hot oil with bare hands, eyeballing ingredients, never using measuring tools, and sharing processes rather than recipes.
The way different communities have come together in appreciating these shared traits makes me feel seen, and I feel grateful to be born into a generation that seems committed to understanding our parents’ stories and cherishing our cultural heritage instead of assimilating, forgetting, or feeling ashamed for our differences. This book is for this generation, in honor of the ones before it, and a hopeful guide for those to come.”
Read the full interview on Black Childrens Books and Authors‘ website here!
