Little Miss Linda Speaks Out About Diversity

2022 Distinguished Authors Guild-DAG

2022 Moonbeam Award- Muliticultural

2022 New York Big Book Distinguished Favorite

2022 Purple Dragonfly Book Award Honorable Mention

We live in a society that is extremely diverse, and we must find ways to treat each other with love and respect despite our differences. Little Miss Linda is a dark-skinned girl who has been treated cruelly because of the color of her skin. Her father is in the military, so she has had the privilege of living in various places around the world including Japan, Korea, Philippines, Alaska, and Germany. Often, she and her siblings would be the only African American children in their classes.

Little Miss Linda was full of excitement when her father told the family he was retiring and moving to Mississippi. She thought that the mean words about her dark skin would stop. She imagined her family would be surrounded by people who were like her, but to her surprise, she continued to be teased and taunted about the complexion of her skin.

This book illustrates how Little Miss Linda was able to turn a negative situation into a positive one. She did this through teaching her class, school, and community the power of appreciating and celebrating people regardless of their skin color.

The power and effectiveness of Little Miss Linda's diversity story is made practical by the "Skittles Story." Yes, if only Skittles could talk right? They do in this book!

Through this elementary story all children can relate to the simple truth that people are more alike than they are different and diversity is to be celebrated.

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Five Star Review by Daniel D. Staats

In Little Miss Linda Speaks Out about Diversity, Dr. Linda Holloway tackles the thorny issue of discrimination. In this case, it is mostly about racial discrimination, but discrimination in any form is just as evil. The author is an African-American herself and has experienced the pain of people holding her skin color against her. This book contains some excellent ideas concerning how to handle bullies and racists. Ryan Battle has drawn excellent illustrations to emphasize the point made in this book. This book is ideal for teaching young people of color how to handle discrimination. Just as significantly, this book can help all children learn why discrimination is wrong and a better way of accepting diversity. The sooner we teach our children that different is good, the sooner we can have peace.