In 2017, Ronnie Anderson was reading to his then 3-year-old daughter, Kaiyah, when he was reminded that fairy tales weren’t particularly diverse. He wanted Kaiyah and her sister, Eliana, to see more representations of Black characters in the books they enjoyed before bed.
“I couldn’t find what I wanted on Amazon,” Anderson says. “Then I started doing research on fairy tales and realized they hadn’t changed much since Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault. So I said, ‘I’m going to write one.’”
Anderson, who grew up in Scotlandville, is now a married father of three girls. He works by day as a clinical lab scientist at Baton Rouge General. It’s a job that demands orderly thinking and attention to detail. But Anderson claims a storytelling side, too, including a casual interest in writing screenplays and plays. Something spoke to him about working on a collection of fairy tales with diverse characters.
May 05, 2021 at 06:16AM
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