The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child's Bookshelf | Grace Lin | TEDxNatick

[@KnitandCrochet424]

Thank you so much for writing children's books, it makes me so happy that the children changed there minds about how they see Asian children. This is truly wonderful.

[@mauriahsmith2424]

Oh my goodness. As a librarian this made me cry. We must always have windows, not just mirrors. Thank you for the reminder. This was beautiful.

[@mollychen6434]

Every time when I watched this, it’ll always bring tears in my eyes. Thank you Grace for doing this for the world and for the Asian kids.

[@katherinehancockporter9553]

I watched both of Grace Lin's presentations, with enchantment! As an American born, white, middle-class child, but shy and bullied in school, I identified with Grace's isolation. I found my salvation reading in grammar school and it became a lifelong habit, stretching through college, work, travel, and becoming an author, historian, photographer, lecturer, and fulfilled old lady in my eighties, still reading, writing and enjoying it all. Thank you, Grace Lin, for sharing your life story and using your talent so well! Judith Hancock Sandoval

[@OnceUponaStorageTV]

Grace Lin, your Ted Talk was incredibly inspiring! As a Filipina-American, I can relate. I'm so proud of you and astounded by the profundity of your message! Thank you for making a difference in this world. Windows & mirrors... Wow! XOXOXO

[@staceysocholotuk8197]

As a teacher-librarian, finding and promoting diverse books to students is one of my most cherished and important roles.

[@mattstalker1986]

Google replace you💪🏿🤛🏿

[@DharmaGirl07]

BRB, sobbing. This was a beautiful talk and I want to share it with everyone I know! I love Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and I'm so grateful for authors like you!

[@WenJunior]

A very touching speech. As an Asian Chinese immigrant, I also had this kind of experience. I don't want my children have this kind of isolated feeling. We are minority but it doesn't mean we don't exist. We all deserve to have the opportunity to be a hero and heroine.

[@patriciatoledo797]

Mrs. Lin your talk was incredible and very relatable to so many, myself included. Thank you for your incredibly inspiring books.

[@jessauyeung]

I almost burst into tears at the end of this talk. I was hungry for asian characters when I was growing up. And now I read your books to my children. Thank you!

[@mattstalker1986]

Sir if you’re eating Asian people, you need medical help not books! Biden 3024

[@LABRESHASMALL]

This was powerful!! Time to make sure any bookshelf I have is composed of windows and mirrors!!

[@nadinechehab5297]

Who is doing this for home work

[@christianstewart9987]

Me >:( I hate english class

[@mcleod7241]

same haha

[@sirvector5008]

me!

[@decredtrouble1966]

Me bruh... A month late assignment haha

[@diggydoo7578]

Me

[@laurapetersen4302]

100000% agree...thank you for this! I have a 7-month-old and am starting from the get-go to make sure there are lots and lots of amazing windows on the bookshelf! I also plan to write some myself. Great talk.

[@jaxery]

Having asked the same questions to myself, I could not come to the right answers. I cannot believe that you've come to change the lives of many children. I wish my siblings and I have read this book when I was younger. Thanks for a well prepared talk.

[@sophiepaine195]

Inspiring and beautifully said, Grace. Yes, the world needs more windows and mirrors to build bridges of tolerance.

[@drmschannel1213]

Thank you, Grace Lin, for sharing your personal journey. Yes! #weneeddiversebooks that serve as both mirrors and windows. Parents, classroom teachers, librarians, authors, illustrators, and publishers have the responsibility to ensure that our youth have these opportunities to develop self-worth and empathy.

[@hannahcrossett3415]

I love her books that I've read: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Starry River in the Sky, and When the Sea Turns to Silver. So cool to see her!

[@bron1701]

Absolutely stunning! What an enchanting speaker and inspiring human being. Thanks Grace Lin for sharing your wisdom and passion xxx

[@christinemapondera1447]

This is so inspiring to me as an author. Thank you!

[@Yojatram]

I have an adopted Asian daughter. About to travel to adopt our second. Our book shelf is growing with multicultural characters! This is amazing. I will be purchasing the books this amazing young woman wrote! Thank you!

[@chung-reimao8104]

Great speech. This speech will help many kids, parents, and the whole wide world. Thanks a lot.

[@miyawaki2429]

Powerful and beautiful story, Grace! Thank you for sharing this incredible talk with the world.

[@ledaniels]

Thank you, thank you for sharing your story and connecting us all.

[@melhrico79]

Beautifully expressed and inspirational!

[@krystalgrohn6374]

Thank you for following your dream and becoming a writer.

[@honeybeesurf]

Such an incredible story and movement! I shared this video with my 5th Grade class in. Hawai'i and they had read your book, so they were fascinated and touched! I hope you gave credit to Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop who wrote "Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors" in the 90's! Thank you for sharing your story!

[@3Boys2Cats1Dog]

Wow! Kudos, Grace Lin! Your speech brought tears to my eyes. :)

[@MonicaLi12345]

I love this

[@MykaAyah]

What a wonderful and inspiring speech.

[@julia3hawkins]

Thank you, Grace, for sharing your story. It made me cry as I was awash with a sea of various emotions. Your TEDx Talk was one of the requirements in a literacy course I'm taking. I am in iteach's Alternative Certification Program to obtain my teaching certificate. I see now why they've included your valuable message. I will find and include your books in my future elementary class and ensure that my class is filled with books that are a mix or mirrors and windows for each of my students. :)

[@callisto_x7823]

Amazing talk Grace Lin and I love your book where the mountain meets the moon!

[@cindyzhuang7137]

This talk is amazing！

[@candyxing1180]

I am such a fan of her books! They are so good!

[@nilgung]

This is a very impressing, inspiring and enlightening speech, thank you very much.

[@Sarah-qb6xn]

thank you for the talk, it was so inspiring!

[@dr.cynthiarobinson8705]

Absolutely loved this.

[@AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor]

Absolutely brilliant talk. While my own children have hundreds of picture books, none of it is about other race than white. It is not easy to find books about other cultures and races and colours or countries. I've recently started writing for children as well, as I felt some topics are not yet covered. It is starting to change now with so many authors from different backgrounds, cultures self-publishing books about minorities. My own kids are mixed and we don't have any books about THEM. That is one more topic I need to explore and write about. I do have one book about immigration though, as I am an immigrant myself. I decided to self-publish all my books. I'm currently working on one of them, about love, friendship and self-esteem. It's so brilliant being an author, especially for children. It is a great responsibility as well! Writing about mirrors and windows...

[@synchrotune2833]

I knew that name was familiar! Out of several hundred, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is one of my favorite books of all time, probably in my top 5.

[@theresatran6299]

I am a teacher, and as a POC, and it is my goal to do a better job at creating mirrors for all students in my classroom. Thank you for being so inspiring.

[@Angela_Yuriko_Smith]

So beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@palmiranava5758]

This talk is amazing!

[@shiversvinceajamu873]

Thank You for your life story.

[@reliableremarketing3978]

This was officially my favorite TedTalks... I love Grace Lin!!! :)

[@daisysantos8326]

met grace lin when visiting the erik carle museum and she was a phenomenal speaker

[@cossettesun4902]

I really enjoyed Grace Lin's speech.

[@JonesMereu]

Excellent! Love her books.

[@zammitfamily6043]

Keep defying gravity, because no wizard that there is or was is ever going to bring you down, Dorothy! They were blind, but now they see Amazing Grace!

[@zammitfamily6043]

You never have to play by the rules of someone else's game.

[@patriciaizquierdo7073]

Inspiring. Thanks for sharing this.

[@fionapeng724]

Good talk, Grace! I can relate to you.

[@ElizabethODulemba]

Fantastic, Grace Lin! :)

[@nunoalexandrevieira152]

WONDERFUL!!!

[@marichellebaldo4645]

i love it so much

[@sunrequiem]

relatable and inspiring!

[@christianstewart9987]

Anyone know when she gets to the part about what window/mirror books are? Edit: window book is something that gives a view onto someone else’s life and experience. Mirror book is a book that “reflects” onto your own life and experiences

[@allegrab.7604]

ahahah i just had to do this for school, its kinda near the middle to end I think

[@myeoli]

10:53 or somewhere near that area

[@mattstalker1986]

Just new age communist language

[@rats2863]

She came to my school today!

[@MrYondue]

This is nice plz keep this up

[@angelgonzalezmartinez9642]

bruv i literally am watching this for a school work

[@kngvibez6726]

same ::()

[@lucille7502]

same, and i kinda teared up cause it was so relatable.

[@BarelyNoticeable]

Same lmao anyone else for an Educ class perhaps?

[@skittle6857]

Same

[@allegrab.7604]

same

[@anthoni426]

2:55 had me think of lyrics to a song by TheEggoMan called Youth, where the first few lines are "No one told me they lied/ *in the books that I loved* /Chasing sugar-coated words/full of adjectives and verbs/composing who I'm dreaming of". I would give a link, but unfortunately, they took it off of Soundcloud, an animatic off of KZbin, and never recorded it for their channel here...

[@罗小雨-p1s]

Really really inspiring!!!And I think I would like to read your Where the Mountain Meets the Moon,it should be a great book.

[@thereisnoahscape3303]

it is!

[@wilmlysne9983]

im just watching this for school soo

[@amandaevans8604]

Grace Lin reminds us of how unfair some of the classrooms truly are to different people. We need to make sure that we are reading books with diversity of authors and characters to ensure all learners have the opportunity to see role models that look and have similar value systems to feel included and accepted. I think it is important to discuss the way in which families have come to the United States as many have more in common that they know.

[@simarsingh7993]

As a Sikh American I can relate

[@linkclan8766]

Cool

[@lizethsalinas6888]

I really loved this speech it was so inspiring 😄😄🙂

[@mingjer09]

Hooray, Pacy.

[@user-zy8me2iw8j]

I wonder if Grace/Pacy is still friends with Melody

[@mmsutantowrites]

She is. They now host a Podcast together called Book Friends Forever, one of my favorites :)

[@tranwc]

❤️

[@marielygot0515]

watching this because of homework

[@aridabaginindabag9970]

Wait, why are there only 79 comments when there are 162k views? They're all positive, too. Awesome, but not exactly realistic. I think we have a case of comments being deleting... Never seen this before.

[@GodBlessYou-b4me]

She finally sees the value of both cultures?! Most people see many windows while there is only one or two mirrors. That's universal . She should do another video looking at her life had she been in her home country. I think she is not seeing the big picture or the big window. The video is victim driven but it was interesting.

[@bl6973]

Huh, I didn’t know the wizard of oz play from year of the dog was a true story.

[@carmellaberthia4416]

Does she reference the creator of this concept? Rudine Sims Bishop?

[@ffbdxhttrxgbdyhtdy397]

I'm Chinese too😆😄😄😃😃😁😁😀😀😊😊☺☺😎😎😌😌😏😏

[@diavv28]

1:17

[@diavv28]

7:30

[@hollya2604]

Anyone else think she would actually make a great Dorothy? Like if you agree.

[@hollya2604]

If that girl who ridiculed her got chosen as Dorothy, she should have auditioned for a tree. Then she would get to throw apples at her! Let’s see how she likes THEM apples!

[@zoinks9864]

Holly Z we can shove apples everywhere if you know what I mean lmao

[@dailydino6061]

I ate Mac Donald’s.....

[@zoinks9864]

Was it good

[@connorcochran6090]

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[@EXDTrashy]

Who is also doing this for homework lmao

[@EXDTrashy]

I am

[@EXDTrashy]

I am too

[@EXDTrashy]

Me too I’m also

[@EXDTrashy]

Hahha

[@EXDTrashy]

I also did this for himework

[@hollya2604]

I can't believe kids even notice ethnicity at such a young age. I didn't even know what ethnicity was until I was a teenager well into puberty!

[@mattstalker1986]

They don’t. Guilty white libs just want to push race on our kids

[@MsMadmax1]

Dr. Maya Angelou said, "When we know better, we do better." Grace Lin is fond of sighting passages from Little House on the Prairie. She says Ma repeats her hatred of Indians when Pa tries to say something positive about them. But Grace Lin has failed to look deeper into why Ma may have felt that way. Newspapers and dime store novels fueled that prejudice in white women by regaling tails of white women being taken captive to "face a fate worse than death!" And I imagine any pioneer family riding across the prairie that came across an entire family that was slaughtered and scalped by Indians probably wouldn't speak kindly about our native people either. Instead of banning books like that, read them either to your children or with your children. Discuss the book with your child and say "Just as not all minorities aren't bad, the indigenous people who lived back when this book was written weren't all bad people either." Use it as a talking point and give them a brief history lesson on why some tribes didn't take kindly to white (or any other color settlers) at the time. We can't change history but we can talk about the mistakes that were made and help break down pre-conceived notions about minorities. And finally, if you feel that a book promotes racism there are plenty of books available by modern day authors that promote unity and understanding. By the way, when I was a child my favorite book was "All the sounds we hear". I imagine though there would be people who feel this book is inappropriate because it excludes children who are hearing impaired

[@mattstalker1986]

Most overrated author of our time. Her work was junk

[@purplepiggy2572]

:O

[@nirmalaashok7230]

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