Di Leedham is currently an independent teacher and consultant, specialising in subject English, Literacy and EAL and multilingualism, with 35 years of experience in teaching, teacher development/training and subject/school leadership, EYFS to KS5. She has been an avid reader since she was 5 but working with EAL learners and becoming involved in both HipHopEd and a local Black History Group signposted serious limitations in her knowledge of books. Her quest to address this and advocate for #reflectingrealities representation and our wonderful UK BAME children’s writers, has been supported by accessible scholarship such as Chetty/Sands O’Connor in Books For Keeps and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas :The Dark Fantastic. It has been true ‘reading for pleasure’. You can follow Di and get additional reading recommendations on Twitter @dileed and via online booklists like this one