NEW AT CBC DIVERSITY THIS WEEK
- Guten Tag! My trip with the German Book Office by Connie Hsu, editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
- Editor Namrata Tripathi: The Exclusive #LA13SCBWI Team Blog Interview at I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell Do I Read?
ON OUR RADAR
- Spanish Magazines for Kids Hit Mainstream at Latinas 4 Latino Literature -- Cricket now offers some of the only Spanish-language magazines for kids
- A Book that Looks Like My Family (VIDEO) on Huffington Post Live – Host Nancy Redd invites Erica Perl (from First Book), Deborah Heiligman (author), Todd Parr (author) and Cara Lemieux (journalist) to weigh in on diverse families in children’s lit
- Writing Race in Novels: The Audio Version by Mitali Perkins (Bamboo People) – 10 tips for writing race in novels
- That’s Not Very Feminist of You, Bella: Feminism and YA Romance Novels at YALSA’s The Hub
- Rapture Practice: An Interview with Aaron Hartzler at The Pirate Tree – the author discusses his YA memoir about growing up in an evangelical Christian family
- Undocumented Immigrants in Children’s Literature by Natalie Dias Lorenzi at Pragmatic Mom – includes reader recommendations
- On Writing What We Know…and Don’t by Justina Chen, author of Return to Me (Little, Brown BFYR) at Diversity in YA
- New series alert! Heck YA, Diversity! at Forever Young Adult
- New blog alert! Operation Diversity —this blog will highlight and celebrate diversity in middle grade, young adult, and new adult lit, debunk stereotypes, and feature interviews with authors and Q&A sections. Call for bloggers now open.
- Guest Post by Shaunta Grimes, author of Viral Nation at Diversity in YA
- A Call to Action by Guadalupe Garcia McCall, author of Under the Mesquite and Summer of the Mariposas at Diversity in YA
- New resource alert! Straight Parent, Gay Kid – the site gives “support, based on experience and research, to straight parents raising gay, lesbian and bi children.”
- Interview with Libertad Thomas at Diversity if YA – the blogger and aspiring fantasy novelist talks about growing up Afro-Latina
NEW RELEASES
- August 1: Horrors of History: City of the Dead by T. Neill Anderson (Charlesbridge)
- July 30: If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic) – read an interview with the author at Diversity in YA
- July 23: The Counterfeit Family Tree of Vee Crawford-Wong by L. Tam Holland (Simon & Schuster BFYR)
BOOKLISTS
- Reader recommendations: My top diverse YA reads of 2013 so far at Diversity in YA
EVENTS
This Month
- Through August 17 in NYC: La Caza Azul Summer Pop-Up Shop - the pop-up shop will carry approx. 300 books, roughly 50% of those being bilingual children's books
- June 28 - September 22: Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- August 13 - October 11: Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian's Fire with Fire Book Tour
- October 5: 2nd Annual Comadres and Compadres Writers Conference at Medgar Evars College in Brooklyn, NY – “provides Latino writers with access to published Latino authors as well as agents and editors who have a proven track record of publishing Latino books.”
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT EARLIER THIS MONTH
- Discussion #3: What would you like to see more of? at Disability in Kidlit
- Resources for Talking to Your Kids About the Case of Trayvon Martin at the Q.E.D. Foundation
OLDER, BUT WORTH READING
- CHILDREN'S BOOKS; 'I Actually Thought We Would Revolutionize the Industry' at the New York Times -- Current National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Walter Dean Myers, on the State of Multicultural Publishing in 1987
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