![]() ![]() “I have come to understand that my book, while intended to be inclusive and truthful and hopeful, is racially insensitive. “As the author of A Fine Dessert, I have read this discussion and the others with care and attention,” Jenkins writes in her comment. One portion of the book depicted a smiling slave mother and her daughter in 1810. Jenkins’s apology-in a comment on the blog “ Reading While White”-followed criticism of the story about four families set across 400 years making the same dessert, blackberry fool. Describing her book as “racially insensitive,” author Emily Jenkins took to the web Sunday morning to apologize for her picture book A Fine Dessert (Schwartz & Wade, 2015), announcing her intent to donate her writing fee to We Need Diverse Books, which has been confirmed by the organization. ![]()
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