Enter Rachel Mae Smith, color consultant and author of The Crafted Life blog and “Colorful Living: Simple ways to brighten your world through design, décor, fashion and more,” a new book ...

“Parents of color expressed the work it takes to find books around a specific topic or moment and/or books that include characters that share their child’s race and experience,” Kepp noted.

“Just because a book has material or something about sex in it,” she ... We’ve ended that conversation. We’ve lost the color in our rainbow.” Spencer says that those who have read pieces of the novel ...