Black British children are not, she says, seeing their experience reflected in books.
13% of Britain's population is now non-white; is that even remotely reflected in books, or publishing?
This liberating, seventies view was reflected in books with titles such as "The Courage to Divorce" and "Creative Divorce: A New Opportunity for Personal Growth".
Higher education in the humanities taught the young to find reflected in books merely their own senses of grievance or self-worth, and put anything difficult off limits.
Keating's passion for cricket was reflected in books about Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott and Graham Gooch, although Another Bloody Day in Paradise, about England's tour of the West Indies in 1980-81, arguably found him at the peak of his literary powers.
In these civilized outposts, the serious work of cocktail invention continued, reflected in books like "The Savoy Cocktail Book," while Americans made do with "Wet Drinks for Dry People," subtitled "A Book of Drinks Based on the Ordinary Home Supplies".
Children and young adults feel respected and validated and their self-esteem is enhanced when they see themselves and their wider communities and hear their dialect reflected in books, and they don't have to be set on inner city sink-estates but poverty stricken farms in the country like in my novel Winter Damage.
After a visit to EyeSeeMe, a bookstore in University City, Missouri, that promotes African American children's literature, he yearned to see more of himself reflected in books. .
And he wished to have that reflected in the book.
This independence is even reflected in the book's style.
