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Diversity in the News
July 11th - July 18th, 2013
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS- Children's literature lacks diversity, say authors, librarians at The Tennessean – includes thoughts from Alvina Ling, Executive Editorial Director at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and CBC Diversity Committee Member
ON OUR RADAR- Kids React Adorably To Cheerios Ad That Sparked Racist Backlash (VIDEO) at the Huffington Post
- Related: The Cheerios ad (VIDEO); an interview (VIDEO) with the young star of the ad and her family about the controversy on MSNBC
- Part IV: Are All Book Covers Created Equal? Bank Street 6th-Graders Talk With Knopf Editors!
- Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning? at the New York Times
- 'Fat Angie' Author Reaches Out to At-Risk Kids at PW – the author has embarked on an At-Risk tour, using her book as a springboard for “conversations with at-risk youngsters, including those who are economically disadvantaged, bullied, and LGBTQ.”
- Community Angered by Tossed Black History Collection at School Library Journal
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Clarion Books to Publish New David Wiesner Picture Book
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, will release it in the Spring 2015 season. Publisher Dinah Stevenson will edit this manuscript. more at the …
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2013 Phyllis Wheatley Book Awards Finalists Announced
more at the Harlem Book Fair website▸▸ more at Eventbrite.com▸▸ Finalists in the Young Readers Category Tea Cakes for Tosh written by Kelly Starling Lyons & illustrated by E. B. …
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NPR Profiles Scholastic
“Chances are you have had contact with Scholastic Publishing at some point in your life: You might have read their magazines in school, or bought a book at one of …
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Marc Simont Has Passed On
“When his roommate, Robert McCloskey, wanted to study ducklings for his next book, Marc Simont let him adopt a whole group of them. McCloskey followed them around their small Cambridge …
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The NCFL & The Joan Ganz Cooney Center Has Formed The Aprendiendo Juntos Council
In an interview with School Library Journal, Dr. Michael H. Levine of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center shared his thoughts on this new venture: “Hispanic-Latino families are pioneers in adapting …
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This Week on Girls Scouts’ The Studio: Caldecott Honor Winner Peter Brown
“A career in the arts is not easy. But it is so rewarding. My advice is to give yourself the best possible chance of succeeding, and the only way to …
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John Green Fan Creates a Nerdfighter Documentary
“By the end of April I had two videographers (Kayla Sprayue and Paul Weller) and a faculty advisor (Sonny Wingler) on board! I created a website and social media pages. …
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Andrea Davis Pinkney & Shane Evans to Collaborate on a Middle Grade Novel
The story is about “a young refugee [who] finds hope and inspiration in learning to write and expressing herself through art. The middle-grade title was inspired by true events in …
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Shelley Diaz: How I Got into Publishing
Guest post by associate editor at School Library JournalRead more »
I decided I wanted to work in children’s publishing in sixth grade. I had devoured all of the Anne of Green Gables books by this time, and I was convinced that I could be the Dominican Lucy Maud Montgomery. I kept writing through middle school and high school, and pondered over different career paths (should I be a literary agent, an editor?), and even momentarily thought about being a cultural anthropologist instead.
The fact remained: I was fascinated by stories—all people’s stories.
I declared my English Lit/Latino Studies double-major freshman year at Columbia University, and was lucky enough to snag an editorial internship with Dell Publishing (a crossword puzzle publisher) through my Hispanic Scholarship Fund mentor. That summer internship cemented my desire to work in publishing, while at the same time reinforced the fact that it had to be with work that I cared about (crossword puzzles, were just not that interesting), and at a place that gave me the opportunity to advocate for diverse literature. -
Kiera Cass Announces a New Selection Novella Entitled The Guard
HarperCollins plans to also publish The Selection Stories in print format on the same date. This book will contain The Prince (a novella released back in March 5, 2013), The …
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Shannon Messenger Pens a New Novel Called ‘Let the Storms Break’
“Vane Weston is haunted. By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. By the lies he’s told to cover for her disappearance. By the treacherous winds that slip into …
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Nominations Open for the 2013 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK – Nominations opened at American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago for the 2013 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My …
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Filming is Under Way for ‘The Maze Runner’ Movie Adaptation
Wes Ball is serving as the director for this project. Dylan O’Brien is the actor portraying lead protagonist, Thomas. Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, published James …
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Author Ruta Sepetys Awarded Lithuania’s ‘Cross of the Knight’ for Contributions in Education & Culture
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Author Ruta Sepetys was decorated with Lithuania’s ‘Cross of the Knight of the Order’ by the President of Lithuania in a formal ceremony last weekend at the nation’s …
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Brenton Thwaites to Play Jonas in ‘The Giver’ Movie
“Aged up from the book, the Jonas character is selected to become the next Receiver of Memory in the heavily ordered and seemingly perfect society. He bonds with the previous …
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Bruce Coville Signs a 4-Book Deal with Random House Children’s Books
The first title, a middle-grade novel entitled Diary of a Mad Brownie, is scheduled to be released in the Spring 2015 season. The story stars a young girl named Jamie …
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This Week on Girls Scouts’ The Studio: Author Natalie Yoder
“I think that I got my love for writing from my dad. He has always kept me on the right path and made me realize that writing was a good …
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Nintendo 3DS to Feature eReader System
In an effort “to bring their numbers up, Nintendo is once again exploring new markets. Right now, they’ve got their eyes set on the growing eBook market. In 2012 Japan’s …
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Simon & Schuster Releases the ‘Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale’ Digital Short Story
The story for the third short story follows “immortal warlock Magnus Bane [who] attends preliminary peace talks between the Shadowhunters and the Downworlders in Victorian London, he is charmed by …