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August 06, 2006
Update on Desi Reads for Kids and Teens
Pooja Makhijani gives a report on the youth literature panel at SAWCC's fourth annual literary festival, Mixed Messages, in Papertigers.org.
As I was growing up, I would search library shelves in the hopes of finding a character "like me". I never had much luck. One day, my elementary school librarian excitedly handed me a tattered copy of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. "It's set in India," she squealed. "It's the perfect book for you!""Um... OK," I stammered.
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