I’m all for diversity in books–after all, God’s creation is full of so many different kinds of people and they are all created in His image. We should be reading about and seeing people of all shapes, sizes, and colors in books.
There are plenty of diverse family situations, too; families don’t come in neat little packages with tied-up bows: a mom, a dad, 2.5 children, and a puppy in a nice, suburban house. We each bring our own backgrounds to our family situations, and things are never as tidy in real life as the annual Christmas card pretends.
The Text
Many new picture books also give us a very colorful–and often delightful–look at families with several races in the mix. As more interracial marriages happen and more families adopt children of different racial backgrounds than their own, books like these are increasingly important as reflectors not only of reality but also of the beauty of reconciliation.
The Subtext
Read (and Look!) Discerningly
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Thank you for this… After loving Wonderstruck, I was halfway through The Marvels with my 12 y.o. daughter. I decided to look ahead a bit, and found that the uncle had been in a homosexual relationship. I confessed to my daughter that I had looked ahead 🙂 and the situation I had found there. She was totally fine with discontinuing the book, as we have so many other great ones to read.
It’s worth looking ahead in books you haven’t read before!