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A woman, nicknamed book lady, wants to give away one million books to her community

A woman, nicknamed book lady, wants to give away one million books to her community CNN 3/8/2021 By Maria Morava and Saeed Ahmed, CNN © Courtesy Jennifer Williams Jennifer WIlliams is on a mission to give away 1 million books to people in her small town of Danville, Virginia. Jennifer Williams wants students to love reading the way she did as a child. So, she decided to give away 1 million books to people in her small town of Danville, Virginia and she s earned the nickname book lady in the process. Since Williams started in 2017, she s given away more than 63,000 books, mostly to students.

Black Children Aren t Seeing Themselves in the Books They Read This Mom Is Working to Change That

Updated: 5:53 AM PST, February 28, 2021 Author Nancy Redd said she wrote her first children s book Bedtime Bonnet for her daughter, who didn t want to wear a bonnet because she never saw her favorite characters from the books she loved to read wearing one. There was a time that 6-year-old Nancy Bhattacharya hated wearing her bonnet. She never saw her favorite characters from the books she loved to read wearing one, so despite having textured hair that would be damaged by a normal pillow case, she didn’t think it was for her. “Because she’d never seen anybody besides me and her grandma wearing a bonnet, she presumed bonnets were just for old people,” her mom, Nancy Redd, told Inside Edition Digital. “Whenever you see a [Black] female cartoon character laying down at night, her hair was never protected by bonnet, which most people who actually live a Black experience know, that is inaccurate assessment of how we sleep.”

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