Out-of-Print Diversity

There is a perception that we’re all very sophisticated and educated these days, as opposed to the past. That older books for children have a tendency to be racist or contain outdated ideas.

Not so.

In my *does the math* thirteen years as a children’s librarian I’ve discovered that you can find some real gems if you just dig deeply enough into a library’s backlist. And just because a title came out twenty or thirty years ago, that doesn’t mean it’s any less forward thinking than our books tod...