Danielle E. Sachdeva, PhD, is Associate Professor of Literacy and Elementary Education at the University of North Georgia, USA. She is the author of Genre-Based Strategies for Promoting Critical Literacy in Grades 4–8 (2020) and the editor of Handbook of Research on Teaching Diverse Youth Literature to Pre-Service Professionals and Supporting Students’ Intellectual Freedom in Schools: The Right to Read. She is a former President of the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Literacy Association.