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Announcing Our first DiYA Monthly Book Roundup!
Published on 2012-02-10 09:32:51
Some of you may be familiar with Diversity in YA (DiYA), a lovely project started last year by authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo to bring more attention to diversity in children’s literature. During the year-long DiYA project, Cindy and Malinda were kind enough to do a roundup each month of new titles coming out [...]
Black History Month Giveaway 2012
Published on 2012-02-07 09:02:06
It’s Black History Month, and that means another giveaway from Lee & Low Books! We’re giving away three sets of three books featuring African Americans, and the contest will run through February 29, 2012. You may have noticed that the winners won’t get their books until after Black History Month. We think Black History Month [...]
Guadalupe Garcia McCall thanks the committee…
Published on 2012-02-03 12:36:18
Under the Mesquite author Guadalupe Garcia McCall thanks the William C. Morris and Pura Belpre award committees that honored her book, along with readers: Here’s one of my very favorite parts of Guadalupe’s Morris Ceremony speech at the American Library Association Midwinter Conference: I realized that I had to write not to be published, but [...]
