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The virtual Diversity in Children’s Literature Symposium and Walter Awards ceremony are in ONE WEEK! Join us in celebrating:

  • PUNCHING THE AIR by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam (Walter Winner)
  • WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed (Walter Winner)
  • ALMOST AMERICAN GIRL by Robin Ha (Walter Honoree)
  • WE ARE NOT FREE by Traci Chee (Walter Honoree)
  • KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES by Kacen Callender (Walter Honoree)
  • VERYTHING SAD & UNTRUE by Daniel Nayeri (Walter Honoree)

Event registration here.

Coming up TOMORROW, Friday, March 12 at 1 pm ET — don’t miss it!

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Mar 11, 2021

The virtual Diversity in Children’s Literature Symposium and Walter Awards ceremony are in ONE WEEK! Join us in celebrating:

  • PUNCHING THE AIR by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam (Walter Winner)
  • WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed (Walter Winner)
  • ALMOST AMERICAN GIRL by Robin Ha (Walter Honoree)
  • WE ARE NOT FREE by Traci Chee (Walter Honoree)
  • KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES by Kacen Callender (Walter Honoree)
  • VERYTHING SAD & UNTRUE by Daniel Nayeri (Walter Honoree)

Event registration here.

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Mar 05, 2021

tracichee:

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WE ARE NOT FREE is a 2021 Walter Honoree!!! 🎉 Established in 2016, the Walter Dean Myers Award celebrates diversity in children’s literature in two categories, Teens and Younger Readers, and I am just so blown away that this year’s judging committee chose We Are Not Free as one of their honor books! ✨ @weneeddiversebooks does such incredible work promoting inclusive literature, creating opportunities for marginalized creators, and building a more equitable industry, so this is such a huge, huge honor. 🌸 Thank you so much to WNDB and the judges, and congratulations to the winners and my fellow honorees!

Winner, Teen Category: PUNCHING THE AIR by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam (illus. by Omar T. Pasha)

Honors, Teen Category: WE ARE NOT FREE by Traci Chee, ALMOST AMERICAN GIRL by Robin Ha

Winner, Younger Readers Category: WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed (color by Iman Geddy)

Honors, Younger Readers Category: KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES by Kacen Callender, EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE by Daniel Nayeri

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Jan 28, 2021
We Need Diverse Books Announces New Board Members

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We Need Diverse Books Announces New Board Members

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE We Need Diverse Books Announces New Board Members January 11, 2021 Washington, DC — We Need Diverse Books is pleased to announce the appointment of four new board members: Zor…

Announcing our newest board members! Welcome to @novelamonth, Minh Lê, Cornelius Minor, and Kaitlyn Sage Patterson!

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Jan 11, 2021
ICYMI — We’ve revealed some stunning book covers recently! Check ‘em out on diversebooks.org! THE MIRROR SEASON by Anna-Marie McLemore (03/16/21) | art by @marlygallardo | design by Liz Dresner - “An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in...

ICYMI — We’ve revealed some stunning book covers recently! Check ‘em out on diversebooks.org!

THE MIRROR SEASON by Anna-Marie McLemore (03/16/21) | art by @marlygallardo | design by Liz Dresner - “An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care."—Karen M. McManus

MEET CUTE DIARY by Emery Lee (05/04/21) | art by @motekill​ | design byErin Ferdinand - ”[A] swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen’s first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships.“

HEALER OF THE WATER MONSTER by Brian Young (05/11/21) | art by Shonto Begay - "A middle-grade chapter book about a young Navajo boy who gets lost in the desert and comes across a sick water monster from the Navajo Creation Story.”

LOVE & OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS by Misa Sugiura (06/08/21) | art by Hannah Good | design by Alison Klapthor - “[A] delightfully disastrous queer YA rom-com… When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn’t what she had in mind.”

JO JO MAKOONS by Dawn Quigley (05/11/21) | art by Tara Audibert | design by Andrea Vandergrift - “Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation…”

FAT CHANCE, CHARLIE VEGA by @crystalwrote (02/02/21) | art by Ericka Lugo - “Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.”

SISTERS OF THE NEVERSEA by Cynthia Leitich Smith (06/01/21) | art by Floyd Cooper | design by Catherine San Juan - “[A] modern take on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, one that’s centered on its girl characters and told from a decidedly Indigenous point of view.”

FINDING JUNIE KIM by Ellen Oh (05/04/21) | art by Alex Cho | design by Joel Tippie - “[When] Junie decides to interview her grandparents, she soon uncovers their unbelievable tales of bravery as kids during the Korean War.”

HANI AND ISHU’S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING by Adiba Jaigirdar (05/25/21) | art by Nabi Haider Ali | design by Julia Tyler - “TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE meets LGBT romance in this funny, heart-warming rom-com about first love and identity.”

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Oct 24, 2020
"The kid lit published today offers parents a powerful jumping-off point for homeschooling families. Aside from the fact that reading for pleasure reduces anxiety and increases our compassion for self and others, fiction and memoir for young people lend itself beautifully to creative study across disciplines; study that brings children and parents together and provides talking points for dinner table conversation and Zoom meetings with classmates and friends."
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Author Melissa Hart in her WNDB blog write-up, “How to Use Diverse Books in Your At-Home Learning”

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Apr 10, 2020
“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the publishing industry, We Need Diverse Books is adapting the 2020 Internship Grant program to better serve applicants and our publishing partners. • The application submission period has been extended...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the publishing industry, We Need Diverse Books is adapting the 2020 Internship Grant program to better serve applicants and our publishing partners.

For more information, see the FAQs or contact us at internships@diversebooks.org.

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Mar 24, 2020
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If you’re a supporter of diversity in children’s literature, then you understand the power of story to empower and affirm all identities. But do changes to the smallest bits of those stories—words, format, punctuation, letters—matter just as much? […] 

Tiny tweaks to words do have the power to both affirm and include. Recognition of a person’s identity on paper can have a powerful ripple effect on how others view them—and how they view themselves.

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Andrea Ruggirello, “How Educators Can Talk About Inclusive Language With Young People“

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Mar 24, 2020

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