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BEA 2015: Spotlight on African-American Children's Authors and Illustrators
Illustrators gathered on Thursday to talk about promoting children's books by African-Americans, and about striving toward a future where readers, writers, and publishers do not feel confined or limited by labels.
We Need Diverse Books, the grassroots organization that emerged out of last year’s controversy regarding BookCon’s initially monochromatic author lineup, marked its first anniversary with its founder and others affiliated with the organization updating an audience of about 100 on current projects before launching into a more philosophical discussion of the importance of publishing and making diverse books available to readers.
“We started because of here,” said Ellen Oh, the group’s founder and president as she introduced her fellow author-panelists at Friday afternoon’s session: Lamar Giles, Linda Sue Park, Matt de la Pena, and Tim Federle.
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This was such an amazing panel. Go read the recap. We’ll wait.
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