Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.
When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.
Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.
While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
Children learn what they live.
We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.
That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.
Kids search for what's relevant, what connects with their life... now. They know bad things happen like Hurricane Katrina. Through character driven stories, they explore what it's like to survive, thrive, and become more themselves.
Children reinvent your world for you.