We Need Diverse Books from Undercurrent on Vimeo. Everybody, please go check out the We Need Diverse Books fund-raising campaign. Lots of good information over there about WNDB, which is dedicated to advocating and supporting non-majority narratives in children’s literature. If you can, contribute; if you can’t, consider passing on the news to someone else…. Read more »
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#WeNeedDiverseBooks
Check out the conversation, today through Saturday: #WeNeedDiverseBooks Here some ways to participate: http://weneeddiversebooks.tumblr.com/post/83943947418/we-need-diverse-books-campaign Here’s the Tumblr: http://weneeddiversebooks.tumblr.com/ Just for a taste, here are some wonderful entries coming from the Oakland library (thanks Sarah!): https://twitter.com/oaklibrary
The We Need Diverse Books Campaign; Also, Writing Frustration
I want to start by boosting the signal for a series of online events about to take place in support of diversity in children and YA’s literature. This is partly in response to the recent BookCon debacle you can read about here, but also stems from a lot of recent and growing online conversation about… Read more »
Diversity in YA Tour
Readers in San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, Cambridge MA, New York City, and San Diego — Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo’s Diversity in YA Fiction tour is coming to you in May. Here’s the Diversity in YA tour schedule. Cindy and Malinda will be presenting panels in the company of a whole lot of other great… Read more »
