Wutaryoo? An Old Question Gets a New Look, and an Interview with Nilah Magruder

Like a lot of libraries around the country, my own Evanston Public Library has been trying to figure out the best possible way to conduct an equity audit of our collections. Equity audits are where you take an in-depth, book-by-book look at the collection and determine, ultimately, how many BIPOC voices are represented. One of the factors that might not occur to you initially when looking at picture books is animal characters. Does your library contain more animal protagonists on the whole than ...