Utopian Children's books (I)
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“For as long as she could remember, Regina Williams wanted to become an astronaut...”
Her friends just laugh at her and walk away, which leaves Regina all the more determined to pursue her dream.
It would be exactly a decade until Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, and nearly twenty years until Mae Jemison launched into the cosmos as the first African American astronaut.
For all their immeasurable delight,children’s books also have a serious cultural responsibility — they capture young minds and plant in them the seeds that blossom into beliefs about what is socially acceptable, what is right and wrong, and what is possible.
No words necessary to add to that.
