by Elaine Luther | Jul 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Has The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein always bothered you? When I was a kid, my brother and I devoured the Shel Silverstein poetry books, such as Where the Sidewalk Ends. Quirky things like a little girl who eats and entire elephant didn’t bother me. But I...
by Elaine Luther | Jun 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dolls for Boys When my son was a toddler, he adopted one of his older sister’s dolls, declared it a boy doll instead of a girl doll and renamed it. Despite the wide selection of clothes available, he preferred that his doll was naked. I was cool with all of...
by Elaine Luther | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Representation Matters! Have you heard about Marley Dias? When she was in 6th grade, she wanted to read more books with black girls as the main character, so she started a champaign and set out to find 1000. “I knew I was frustrated by the lack of diversity in the...
by Elaine Luther | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Here at Being Bold, we believe that representation matters! We all need to see ourselves in books and on screens, so we were excited to see this list! The blog What Do We Do All Day has created a list of children’s books with characters on the Autism Spectrum,...
by Elaine Luther | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Bath was chosen as the city since Austen’s parents lived there and some of her books are set there. “It will also be good to go a little way to redress the fact that less than 3% of all statues in the UK are of historical, non-royal women,” said Mr...
by Elaine Luther | Dec 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
On December 10, 1869, Wyoming became the first American territory to give women the right to vote! You’ll notice that’s well before the rest of the nation, since nation-wide, American women got the right to vote in 1920, after a very long and very hard...
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