Growing up in Cardiff, my appreciation for the vibrant tapestry of people, cultures, and ideas has always been profound. However, both as a child and later as a teacher, I couldn’t ignore the glaring absence of positive protagonists from Global Majority backgrounds in children’s literature. Searching for books that mirrored the experiences of myself or the children in my class often left me disappointed, especially in the absence of a black girl as the central character, particularly within a Welsh context. Faced with this…

Image Author  P G Bell – Photographer Tiffany Mumford   I fell in love with books when I was three years old and my mum read me The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. It was the first time I’d ever really been transported by a story. Suddenly, I could leave my bedroom in Newport behind and explore the host of magical new worlds that Blyton conjured up. The words on the page were hers, but the experience was all…