Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.
Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.
In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.