She's biracial,' he says. 'A lot of the popular children's books have a white, blue-eyed, blonde girl as the main character.' And books that did feature biracial kids were too often focused on diversity as a subject, rather than telling the story about a kid that, say, wanted to be an astronaut, and just happens to be biracial.
I want for her growing up to realize that her diversity is really important, but that it's not her entire identity, and that she can be anything,' Gonzales says.
"Kids can make themselves a main character, but also [use] any characters they come up with, and create their own stories and universes,' Gonzales says.
It's now your story, not someone else's story,' Gonzales says. 'That's much more powerful.'
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