On Today's Show"When you're a kid, and if you love to read, you love stories, you aren't always aware of the fact that you're being erased from those stories, or you don't yet have the expectation that you should be in those books." - Zetta Elliott
Author and scholar Zetta Elliott knows the damage being left out of the stories you consume as a kid can have in the long term. Growing up Black in suburban Canada in the 80s meant rarely having the opportunity to see herself in the books she read. It wasn't until she was a young adult that she realized this erasure's impact on her own voice as a writer.While she is best known for her Dragons in a Bag series, Zetta has had a prolific writing career and spent a great deal of time advocating for fairness and representation in children's literature. She tells us about how she found and reclaimed her voice and her struggles with publishing as a Black author.ContentsChapter 1 - Getting to Know Zetta Elliott (2:02)Chapter 2 - Being Left Out of Literature (5:50)Chapter 3 - Zetta Finds Her Voice (10:46)Chapter 4 - Won't You Celebrate With Me? (14:49)Chapter 5 - Self-Publishing (18:03)Chapter 6 - The Future Depends on Now (23:15)Chapter 7 - Beanstack Featured Librarian (27:10)Links
http://thereadingculturepod.com/
https://www.zettaelliott.com/
https://www.beanstack.com/