Parents should be encouraging their children to read stories about black characters, an author has said.
Catherine Johnson said: “Children – white readers – will read books about bears and owls and cats. Why can’t they read books with black families in?”
A white mother from Newport said it was a parent’s duty to educate children about different cultures.
But campaigner Donna Ali said the onus was on editors and publishers to stop seeing these books as niche.
Catherine Johnson said: “You want other people to understand the experiences of those children, you want to normalise that experience – it is not an ‘other’ thing, it’s a normal thing.”
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