Anastasia Higginbotham (The Children's Book Podcast #603)
- Matthew C. Winner
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min read
Anastasia Higginbotham (@AHigginBooks) shares NOT MY IDEA: A BOOK ABOUT WHITENESS. Anastasia’s Ordinary Terrible Things book series has taken on the topics of divorce, death, and sex using straightforward language and respecting the reader with each page. Her most recent entry in the series is called NOT MY IDEA: A BOOK ABOUT WHITENESS and it has been one of my most-talked about books ever since a colleague shared it with me at the beginning of this school year. Anastasia talks at length about the work that went into creating this book, laying the art from found materials, handwriting the text, and crafting the story around her own experience of processing racial injustice and White supremacy. It’s an absolutely exceptional book and one that provides the necessary space and language for confronting Whiteness and working against the historic and ongoing oppression of Black men, women, and children.
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ON TODAY'S EPISODE:
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness is a picture book about racism and racial justice, inviting white children and parents to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice.
SHOW NOTES:
Anastasia Higginbotham (Website)
Free Downloadable PDF of NOT MY IDEA from Dottir Press (through June 19)
Brooklyn Free School (website)
Anastasia on Instagram (@ahigginbooks)
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