BIPOC Picture Book Classics Galore!: A Booklist of Necessary Titles for Every Library

At the end of June of this year I attended the American Library Association’s Annual Conference and had the express pleasure of watching a number of delightful panels. See enough of them and they all begin to blur together, but I have a clear cut memory of a woman on one of the stages proclaiming loudly that when we think of picture book classics we tend to think of books about and by white people.

This struck me as odd. It is true that historically white creators and their white subjects hav...