Illustrating Black Joy in Children’s Books
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10/04/22 • 36 min
Children’s books craft the way a young person sees the world, and this view carries on well into adulthood. Daily Show researcher Stephanie O. and CEO, founder, and author of Hey Carter! Books, Dr. Thomishia Booker, sit with Roy Wood Jr. to discuss the importance of positively representing Black boys in children’s literature to help them develop their own sense of self.
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Children’s books craft the way a young person sees the world, and this view carries on well into adulthood. Daily Show researcher Stephanie O. and CEO, founder, and author of Hey Carter! Books, Dr. Thomishia Booker, sit with Roy Wood Jr. to discuss the importance of positively representing Black boys in children’s literature to help them develop their own sense of self.
Watch the Original Segment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YO2q7l6zEA&t=100s
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Beyond the Scenes from The Daily Show - Illustrating Black Joy in Children’s Books
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Welcome to Beyond the Scenes, The Daily Show podcast that goes a little deeper into segments and topics that originally aired on the show, like if you had hot chocolate? Like okay, Like the Daily Show is a cup of hot chocolate, and we're all the little extra condiments and all the little extra stuff you add in to make it that much sweeter. Where the whipped cream, the caramel swirl, the large marshmallows, the cinnamon powder. And I should have m
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