Hi! Here’s a single-sheet zine I made back in September to give away at San Francisco Zine Fest 2019, titled FIVE GREAT STORYTIME BOOKS BY AUTHORS OF COLOR. At the link below, you can download a PDF of it which you can then print, fold, and add to your own zine library; repeat as often as you like. (Or you can just read the whole thing by looking at the photos. It’s short!)
Despite being involved with San Francisco Zine Fest and the DIY arts scene for many years, I’ve only ever actually made a couple of zines — usually one per year, the night before the fest, pulling from my screenshots folder in some way — so this is a departure from my usual steez in that it it’s intended to be useful to others! (I did still make it the night before the fest tho. A method is a method)
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I made this in part because I pride myself, as a preschool storytime volunteer with a background in racial equity in the arts, as presenting POC-centered stories to my kids — but when I started looking at my favorite books more closely, I found that my carefully curated collection was still mostly white authors. So this zine represents my ongoing efforts to do the best I can by my kids. If you’re a fellow storytime reader looking to bring more #ownstories into your rotation, or if you just have some young kids in your life that you care about, I hope this will be a help to you!