“There are other girls out there too who are stowing away in their books because the outside world’s not that great.”
This 11-year-old wonder from New Jersey got sick of reading books about "white boys and their dogs," so she started a campaign called #1000BlackGirlBooks that aims to collect children’s books featuring black girls as main characters.
Andrea Cipriani Mecchi
"My grandmother specifically took very good care to find me books with little black girls in them. She had a hard time, so she ended up actually having me read a lot of books about animals, because she couldn't find too many books with young black girls as protagonists. Two of the books that she had for me and taught me to read with were Amazing Grace and Tar Beach, which was a really beautiful dreamscape book that I still think about a lot." - Ashley Ford
Crown Publishers
