Profiles And Perspectives: From a Writer’s Perspective: Recreating Images of Community in Multicultural Children’s Books

Monica Brown is an author of bilingual children’s books that honor the uniqueness of her subjects, not ignoring common ground, but not universalizing cultural difference. In this profile, she discusses the way contemporary Latino/a children’s literature, in particular her own, intervenes in a history of exclusion in children’s publishing and intervenes in the cycle of stereotypical representations and children’s stories about--though not by--Latinos/as.