NEW AT CBC DIVERSITY THIS WEEK
- Industry Q&A with Robin Smith, children's book reviewer
- Talking to Teens – Liz Waniewski, Executive Editor, Dial/Penguin Books for Young Readers offers insights into how teens pick books
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
- CBC Diversity: Our Industry Cares About Kids on the Margins at Mitali’s Fire Escape – “One of the most encouraging signs of change since I've been in this vocation was the establishment of the Children's Book Council’s Diversity Committee…”
ON OUR RADAR
- Publishing Diverse Books Isn’t About Reaching Quotas at Rich in Color – Tu Books publisher Stacy Whitman on why she publishes diverse books
- Young dreamers at The Horn Book – author/illustrator Christopher Myers on Trayvon Martin and children’s books
- Alexie’s ‘True Diary’ Removed from NYC School’s Summer Reading List at School Library Journal
- A Guide to YA Novels with LGBTQ Characters at YALSA’s The Hub
- Talking with children about race: Part II at hellobee
- Surviving Disappearance, Re-Imagining & Humanizing Native Peoples: Matika Wilbur at TEDxSeattle
- Interview with a Feminist Mormon at The Hairpin
- Review of the Day: The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt at Fuse #8 – Betsy Bird brings up racial issues that she sees in the picture book (author Daywalt responds in the comments section)
- DiversifYA: Paula Chase-Hyman – Q&A with the author of the Del Rio Bay series/co-founder of The Brown Bookshelf about growing up African-American
- DiversifYA: Ellen Rozek – YA writer Rosek talks about living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Tourette’s
NEW RELEASES
- August 1: Horrors of History: City of the Dead by T. Neill Anderson (Charlesbridge)
BOOKLISTS
- From Diversity to Civil Rights | Nonfiction Notes at The Horn Book
EVENTS
This Month
- Through August 17 in NYC: La Caza Azul Summer Pop-Up Shop (NYC) - the pop-up shop will carry approx. 300 books, roughly 50% of those being bilingual children's books
- August 27: Launch Party for Two Boys Kissing at Books of Wonder in NYC
- Through 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
- Why We Need Diverse Literature and How to Find It at Rich in Color
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