Margaret Kingsbury has 14 years of experience in the book industry and is the co-founder of Baby Librarians, a children's book review website. She's passionate about inclusivity, disability, and spreading the joys of reading. She's a regular contributing writer for BuzzFeed Books and Book Riot. Her articles have also been featured in Parents, The Lily, StarTrek.com, and more.

In this episode, Margaret and I chat about:
 
-What is missing in children's books when we talk about disability?
-What makes a book about disabilities problematic?  
-How do we think more critically about books - tokenism vs incidental representation 
-Why do you think this continues to be an area lacking representation?
-How does this impact children?
-What are your top 3 books that demonstrate disability in a positive light?
-How do we think more critically about representation in children's books and how do we model that for children or for people we interact with?

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The Current State of Disability Representation in Children's Books from Book Riot: https://bookriot.com/disability-representation-in-childrens-books/


Check out Margaret's Baby Librarians list of books with dyslexic characters: https://babylibrarians.com/5-childrens-books-with-dyslexic-characters/

Link to The Catchpoles Instagram and Ale's lesson guide too. Here it is: https://thecatchpoles.net/2021/08/08/official-what-happened-to-you-lesson-plan-created-with-the-author/

What Happened To You? by James Catchpole and Karen George
Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/3kZbHH9
Amazon US https://amzn.to/3l80WSN

I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith
Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/39dcKjX
Amazon US https://amzn.to/3MakaTK

My City Speaks by Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron
Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/3M5L935
Amazon US https://amzn.to/3PhyN9K