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Five tips to make school bookshelves more diverse and five books to get you started

  • Written by Helen Joanne Adam, Lecturer in Literacy Education and Children's Literature, Edith Cowan University
Five tips to make school bookshelves more diverse and five books to get you startedChildren need to be able to see themselves in the books they read.Cockburn Libraries/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

A lack of diverse books is failing children from minority backgrounds. This is something that should concern all Australians.

I studied five Australian early learning settings and found less than 5% of books contained cultural diversity. My more...

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