The Default in Our Stars: A Guest Post by Linda Sue Park

On occasion the posts I host here on my blog inspire me to do better. Linda Sue Park has that ability.

Book review journals, book reviewers, book bloggers everywhere: I’m looking at YOU

By Linda Sue Park

“When race is a factor or is important to the story, we expect our reviewers to reflect that in their assessment.”

This is a quote from a response I received when I wrote to the editor of children’s book reviews at a major newspaper. I had written to ask them to change ...