A non-profit and a
grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates
essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote
literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.
Via Publishers Weekly: “We are all human, but the way we experience the world is not universal.”
If you’ll be at the BookCon in New York City this week(end) do stop by the following panels/signings to meet these amazing authors on the WNDB team and celebrated by the WNDB team!
Bears repeating and hope to see you at BookCon this weekend!
THE BOOKCON SIGNINGS & PANELS
*BookCon signings are in-booth or autographing area as noted
Saturday, May 30th
Nicola Yoon – 10am (Penguin Random House)
Shannon Hale – 10:30am (Candlewick Press booth)
We Need Diverse Books Panel: Science Fiction/Fantasy with Kameron Hurley, Ken Liu, Joe Monti, Nnedi Okorafor, Daniel Jose Older – 11am in Room 1A21.
Daniel Jose Older & Nnedi Okorafor – 12:30pm (Autographing area)
Ken Liu – 12:30pm (Autographing area)
Kameron Hurley - 12:30pm (Autographing area)
Lamar Giles - 12:45pm (Mystery Writers of America booth)
Jason Reynolds & Ellen Hopkins – 5pm (Autographing area)
Sunday, May 31st
Melissa de la Cruz - 11am (Autographing area)
We Need Diverse Books Panel: Luminaries of Children’s Literature with Libba Bray, Soman Chainani, David Levithan, Meg Medina, and Jacqueline Woodson – 11:15am in Room 1A10.
We Need Diverse Books has 2 panels at BookCon this weekend and we hope to see you there!
On Saturday, May 30th at 11am in Room 1A21 will be the science fiction & fantasy focused panel “We Need Diverse Books: In Our World and Beyond” with Daniel Jose Older, Ken Liu, Joe Monti, Kameron Hurley, and Nnedi Okorafor!
On Sunday, May 31st at 11:15am in Room 1A10 will be “We Need Diverse Books presents Luminaries of Children’s Literature” featuring David Levithan, Jacqueline Woodson, Libba Bray, Meg Medina, and Soman Chainani (Note Sherman Alexie will not be at this panel)!
If you’ll be at Book Expo and/or the BookCon in New York City this week do stop by the following panels/signings to meet these amazing authors on the WNDB team and celebrated by the WNDB team!
BOOK EXPO SIGNINGS & PANELS
*unless otherwise noted BEA signings are in autographing area
Reminder about signings & panels at BEA and BookCon this week! Hope to see you there!
If you’ll be at Book Expo and/or the BookCon in New York City this week do stop by the following panels/signings to meet these amazing authors on the WNDB team and celebrated by the WNDB team!
BOOK EXPO SIGNINGS & PANELS
*unless otherwise noted BEA signings are in autographing area
Wednesday, May 27th
Tim Federle – 2:30pm
R.J. Palacio - 4pm (Penguin Random House booth)
Thursday, May 28th
Anne Ursu – 9:30am
Kwame Alexander – 10am
Kristina Yee – 11am
Sunil Yapa – 11am
Suzan Lori-Parks - 1pm (Theatre Communications Group booth)
Brian Selznick – 1:30pm
Dawn Metcalf - 1pm (Harlequin booth)
Adi Alsaid - 1pm (Harlequin booth)
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts - 2pm (Abrams booth)
Soman Chainani - 2pm (HarperCollins booth)
Ta-Nehisi Coates - 2:30pm (Penguin Random House booth)
Miranda Paul – 3pm
Libba Bray - 3pm (Hachette Book Group booth)
Vu Tran - 3:30pm (Liveright booth)
Friday, May 29th
Marie Lu - 9:30am (Penguin Random House booth)
Lamar Giles – 9:30am
Salina Yoon – 9:30am
Ilene Gregorio – 10:30am
Tim Federle - 11am (Running Press booth)
Kristy Shen & Bryce Leung - 11am
Don Tate – 11:30am
Shannon Hale – 11:30am
Nicola Yoon - 12:30pm (Penguin Random House booth)
Adi Alsaid - 1pm (Harlequin booth)
We Need Diverse Books Panel – 1pm, Rm. 1E10
Meg Medina - 1:30pm (Candlewick booth)
Celeste Ng - 1:30pm (Penguin Random House booth)
Marieke Nijkamp - 2pm (Sourcebooks booth)
Rita Williams-Garcia – 2pm
Christopher Myers – 2pm
Don Tate - 2:15pm (Peachtree booth)
Alex Gino - 2:30pm
David Levithan - 3pm (Penguin Random House booth)
We Need Diverse Books signing – 7pm at La Casa Azul
Bookstore
THE BOOKCON SIGNINGS & PANELS
*BookCon signings are in-booth or autographing area as noted
Saturday, May 30th
Nicola Yoon – 10am (Penguin Random House)
Shannon Hale – 10:30am (Candlewick Press booth)
We Need Diverse Books Panel: Science Fiction/Fantasy with Kameron Hurley, Ken Liu, Joe Monti, Nnedi Okorafor, Daniel Jose Older –
11am in Room 1A21.
Daniel Jose Older & Nnedi Okorafor – 12:30pm (Autographing area)
Ken Liu – 12:30pm (Autographing area)
Kameron Hurley - 12:30pm (Autographing area)
Lamar Giles - 12:45pm (Mystery Writers of America booth)
Jason Reynolds & Ellen Hopkins – 5pm (Autographing area)
Sunday, May 31st
Melissa de la Cruz - 11am (Autographing area)
We Need Diverse Books Panel: Luminaries of Children’s
Literature with Libba Bray, Soman Chainani, David Levithan, Meg Medina, and Jacqueline Woodson – 11:15am in Room 1A10.
Adam Silvera — More Happy Than Not
Adi Alsaid — Never Always Sometimes and Let’s Get Lost
Alexander London — Guardian and Proxy
Alexandra Bracken — The Darkest Minds, Never Fade, In The Afterlight
Anne Heltzel — Charlie, Presumed Dead
Dhonielle Clayton — Tiny Pretty Things
Elizabeth Eulberg — We Can Work It Out
Jennifer E. Smith — The Geography of You and Me
Jennifer L. Armentrout — Stone Cold Touch
Katie McGarry — Nowhere But Here
Kody Keplinger — Lying Out Loud
Lance Rubin — Denton Little’s Death Date
Leila Sales — Tonight The Streets Are Ours and This Song Can Save Your Life
Marieke Nijkamp — This Is Where It Ends
Melissa Grey — The Girl at Midnight
Sona Charaipotra — Tiny Pretty Things
Susan Dennard — Truthwitch
Tiffany Schmidt — Hold Me Like A Breath
Tommy Wallach — We All Looked Up
Virginia Boecker — The Witch Hunter
Yay!!!!!!!
This will be a fabulous event in NYC during BEA/BookCon week. Hope to see you there!
#WeNeedDiverseBooks because every story deserves to be told! A child should be able to look to books and find a friend that understands what he is going through.
We’re excited to provide a transcript of the team and author portions of our panel. Here’s a link to the audio.
Transcript of The World Agrees: #WeNeedDiverseBooks Panel
The BookCon
May 31, 2014
Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY
NB: transcript is edited slightly for clarity
I.W. Gregorio: I’d like to start off by doing a virtual mic drop for everyone who Tweeted and submitted photos.
My name is I.W. Gregorio, and on behalf of the whole #WeNeedDiverseBooks team I’d like to thank you for being here. As you know, #WeNeedDiverseBooks is a grassroots campaign, and by definition it owes its success to you. So please accept our sincerest gratitude for your Tweets, your retweets, your love and your support. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover, so without further ado, I’d like to introduce some key members of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks team.
Unedited audiostream of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks panel at BookCon 2014 in New York, NY:
“After taking the Internet by storm, the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign is moving forward with brand new initiatives to continue the call for diversity in children’s literature. Join the WNDB team as they share highlights of their campaign, discuss the success of grassroots activism, highlight diverse books and how everyone can diversify their shelves and talk next steps for the campaign. Ellen Oh (PROPHECY Series), Aisha Saeed (Written in the Stars, 2015), Marieke Nijkamp, founder of DiversifYA, Lamar Giles (Fake ID) and Mike Jung (Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities). Special Guests include acclaimed Authors Grace Lin (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon), Matt de la Peña (The Living) and Jacqueline Woodson (Beneath a Meth Moon). Moderated by I.W. Gregorio (None of the Above, 2015).”
Here is a link to the “cheat sheet” for selling diversity that was handed out in the #WeNeedDiverseBooks panel at BookCon! You can download the .pdf from Grace’s blog.
So, what are you waiting for? GO FORTH AND HANDSELL!!
Thank you, Rachel Renee Russell, @realjohngreen @veronicaroth @marie_lu alayadawnjohnson, & daniellempaige for supporting the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign! The button is small, but the message mighty. We couldn’t be more thrilled that a SRO crowd heard our message (and that these fabulous authors actually WORE it :D). Quotes from our interviewees, and a stream of the entire panel to come…
