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Claudia Mills

Claudia Mills is the author of over 50 books for young readers, including recent titles Zero Tolerance, The Trouble with Ants (launch title in the Nora Notebooks series), and Izzy Barr, Running Star (third title in the Franklin School Friends series). Her books have been named Notable Books by the American Library Association, nominated for dozens of state readers’ choice awards, and translated into half a dozen languages. Claudia, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University, recently left her full-time position as a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she published many scholarly articles on ethical and philosophical themes in children’s literature. She is now a frequent visiting professor at DePauw University as well as a former Frederick Professor.
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26 Jul 2016

Diversity in Children's Books: A White Author's Quandary (Part II)

This post originally appeared September 29, 2015. In Part One of this two-part post on the moral importance of providing children with diverse books, I concluded that white authors need to write about non-white characters, or else they gravely falsify the “reality” presented in their stories. We don’t live in an all-white world. We don’t … Continue reading "Diversity in Children’s Books: A White Author’s Quandary (Part II)"
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19 Jul 2016

Diversity in Children's Books: A White Author's Quandary (Part I)

This post originally appeared September 22, 2015. For the first time in census history, the majority of children living in the United States are now children of color. But the vast majority of children living within the pages of American children’s books are white. According to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the University of … Continue reading "Diversity in Children’s Books: A White Author’s Quandary (Part I)"