When Robert Ridinger began the process of identifying books about Juneteenth, he expected to find mostly historical texts written for adults and adolescents.
That wasn’t the case.
“And I looked under every rock I could think of,” says Ridinger, a professor and subject specialist librarian at Northern Illinois University’s Founders Memorial Library. “I knew what the holiday was, so I was expecting a more historical treatment, but almost everything that’s been written … is children’s books.”
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