A Charlotte woman is on a mission to become a children’s book author and add more diversity in children’s literature.
Jenelle Dunn wrote a book called “Dear Little Brown Girl,” aiming to build little girls’ self-esteem, imagination and spirit.
Dunn said when she was little, she loved to read and describes the library as her second home, but she quickly noticed a lack of diversity among the selection of books.
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"When I was growing up, I didn't really see a lot of children's books with characters that look like me,” Dunn said.
According to research released from the Cooperative Children's Book Center in 2020, only 12% of children's books in the U.S. had a primary character who was Black, even less for other minority populations.
"We definitely need books that reflect the different world that we're in,” Dunn said. “We have these different races. We have these different types of people, so we should have books that reflect that."
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