In the early 1990s, when Martin was in graduate school, she wrote papers about wilderness-survival stories for kids. So when Martin notes that something is mysteriously missing from the genre-that there’s a curious absence in kids’ books where one could argue there shouldn’t be-she’s someone who would know. As the Beverly Cleary Endowed Professor for Children and Youth Services at the University of Washington’s Information School, she trains future librarians in how to best serve young readers, and as a children’s-book critic, she assesses the craft and messaging of swaths of new additions to children’s literature every year. Part of Michelle Martin’s job is being intimately familiar with the wide-ranging canon of children’s literature.
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