Diversity in the News
June 20th – June 27th, 2013
NEW BLOG ALERT
- July 1—31: Disability in Kidlit —Organized by Kody Keplinger and Corinne Duyvis, the blog series “will feature posts by readers, writers, bloggers, and other peeps from the YA and MG communities discussing disability and kidlit.” Call for bloggers now closed.
ON OUR RADAR
- As Demographics Shift, Kids' Books Stay Stubbornly White via NPR’s Code Switch
- Why Hasn’t the Number of Multicultural Books Increased In Eighteen Years? (includes infographic) at Lee & Low Books – features opinions from Kathleen T. Horning, Director of Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC); Poet/Author Nikki Grimes, Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University, and more
- Related: Coloring Outside the Lines: The Diversity Gap in Children’s Literature via Bookriot
- Roger Sutton from Horn Book weighs in: A very good question
