Seeing yourself reflected, especially as a child, opens up the imagination and encourages you that you can do anything and be anything. Representation in novels and media is so important. It’s important that everyone get to see themselves as the hero of a story.” I wanted my daughter to be able to see herself in media. Maddy looks the way she does in the book because my little girl looks like that. She said, “When I was growing up, I didn’t see myself reflected in books very often. Author, Nicola Yoon recently told Bustle that there was a special reason she wrote the book in the first place: her daughter. The highly anticipated movie, Everything, Everything comes out this weekend! Lovers of the YA hit will be cramming the theaters to get a feel for the adaptation.
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