April 4th - April 11th, 2013
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
- Matt de la Peña mentioned the CBC Diversity blog during his keynote at SLJ's Think Tank last Friday. Listen to the entire speech here.
- Four Latina bloggers band together to promote Latino literary talent to Latino readers and mainstream book publishers , via Latina Lista – mentions working with CBC Diversity!
ON OUR RADAR
- List: "Classic" young adult books by authors of color at Diversity in YA
- What Are “Diverse” Children’s Books? at Mamiverse
- My transgender novel is too personal to be propaganda by Cris Beam, author of I Am J (via The Guardian) -- “But literature, at its best, doesn’t live in this world of agendas and witch hunts, as tools for any side’s political purpose. Literature and its readers are in an alternate realm, and they’ll continue to meet in this quieter place.”
- A Different Light: On Identity at YALSA’s The Hub – reflects on the recent articles
- “What Makes a Good YA Coming-Out Novel” (The Horn Book)
- “A New Way for Gay Characters in YA” (Atlantic Wire)
- The Holocaust: Rescue and Resistance | Focus On at School Library Journal – includes list of recommended reading
- “Are there any girl bears?”: Gender and the 21st Century Picture Book by Betsy Bird at Fuse 8
