March 28th – April 4th, 2013
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS- Daniel Nayeri live tweeted CBC Diversity’s panel on “Marketing Your Books to a Multicultural Audience”. Check out his tweets from 4/4 starting at noon for a great recap of the event’s big takeaways.
- Diversity in 2012 Young Adult Bestsellers, Part 1: Overview at Diversity in YA – includes pie charts and graphs
- Diversity in 2012 Young Adult Bestsellers, Part 2: Main Characters Only at Diversity in YA
- Argentine Isol Takes Home World’s Largest Children’s Literature Prize, via Publishing Perspectives
- The Grown-Up Behind a Tween Phenomenon – the NY Times’ profile of Rachel Renee Russell includes the author discussing her decision to make the Dork Diaries protagonist white
- Do Girls of Color Survive Dystopia? – the first in a 2-month blog series about race and gender in YA dystopian lit at Bitch Media
- Young Adult Books Too Often Present a World Without People of Color, via Bitch Media
- You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You: Feminism and the YA Romance at Ingrid’s Notes
- Escaping Conflict, Seeking Peace: Picture books that relate refugee stories, and their Importance, via PaperTigers.org
- A Matter-of-Fact Approach to Diversity in The Elephant of Surprise? by author Brent Hartinger
- Are All Covers Created Equal? Bank Street 6th-Graders Weigh In On RACE
- It’s Not Always About Race - Author C.J. Omololu talks with DiYA about the reactions to having a boy of color on the cover of a book where race isn’t central to the story
- The Busy Storyteller and the 'Busy-Busy Little Chick' - an interview at Kirkus with Janice N. Harrington’ about her new picture book (illustrated by Brian Pinkney), based on a fable from Central Africa.
- Q&A with Shirley Hughes about her first novel, Hero on a Bicycle, set in Nazi-occupied Florence – out from Candlewick this month
- Wrap-up of Diverse YA releases in March at Diversity in YA
- Submissions for the Estela and Raúl Mora Award are open until August 15th. The award is presented annually to libraries, schools, colleges, and other community organizations with the most exemplary culminating celebrations of El día de los niños/El día de los libros
- April 20: Sean Qualls to Appear at POWERHOUSE on 8th
- April 30: Celebrate Día (Diversity in Action) , a nationally recognized initiative that emphasizes the importance of literacy for all children from all backgrounds. Until June 9: The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Presents: Latino Folk Tales: Cuentos Populares Art by Latino Artists
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