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- Gendered covers are failing young adult readers at The Guardian
- UK's first black children's laureate: new history curriculum could alienate pupils at The Guardian
- Why Aren’t More Mexican Children’s Books Making it to America? at Publishing Perspectives – Patricia van Rhijin, director at CIDCLI, discusses the problems getting Mexican children's books published in the US. American publishers are "so square," she says.
- Related: A Mexican Conundrum at Fuse #8
- The Truth About Multicultural Stories at The Rumpus
- When the Personal Becomes Political – 2 books that “don’t overstate the obvious but bring a deeper awareness of race, white privilege, and the messy business of transforming society one mind at a time.”
- Guest Blog by Zoraida Córdova at Diversity in YA – Mermaids in America, or, how does this Ecuadorian girl end up writing fantasy?
- A Short List of Great Resources for Racial Diversity in Young Adult Sci-Fi at BitchMedia
- LGBT: The Next Generation by Bill Konigsberg at Diversity in YA
- Five More Picture Books That Celebrate Creativity in Girls at Ink & Pen
- L4LL's Summer Reading Program at Latinas for Latino Literature – includes bilingual reading lists, summer reading packets, printables, and more (even more info here)
- DiYA Author Spotlight: Julie Anne Peters at Diversity in YA
- Author Don Tate: Tips On Writing Multicultural Picture Books/Biographies via Writermorphosis
- Interview: Kayla Whaley at Diversity if YA – on what it’s like to grow up with Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Interview: Bridget Shepherd at Diversity if YA – the epic fantasy author on growing up pansexual
- DiversiTheme: The trouble with interviews, part two at Diversity if YA – follow-up interview with Hammer of Witches author Shana Mlawski
- The White House Honors La Casa Azul Bookstore Owner Aurora Anaya-Cerda as a Crowdfunding "Champion of Change" at the CBC
- Coming Soon: A Breakout Year for Black Films at the New York Times
- Cheerios Commercial Featuring Mixed Race Family Gets Racist Backlash (VIDEO) at the Huffington Post
- Related: If This Cute Cheerios Ad Causes Drama, What Won't? via NPR’s The Switch
NEW RELEASES
- The Elementals by Saundra Mitchell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 4)
- Crushed by Sara Shepard (HarperCollins, June 4)
AWARD NEWS
- Int’l Latino Book Awards Recognize Top Children’s Titles
- 25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT EARLIER THIS MONTH
- Picture Book About Islam Ignites Twitter Battle via School Library Journal
Great links! Hooray for a black children's laureate! And I loved that article at the Guardian on the gender issue in covers. Why can't a cover just be a cover? Hunger Games has a gender neutral cover. Seraphina's cover is neutral.
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