How Cross-Racial Scenes in Picture Books Build Acceptance
If asked, most children’s book enthusiasts—writers and illustrators, editors and publishers, librarians and teachers, and parents—would surely agree with poet Lucille Clifton that “the literature of...
View ArticleVideo: “Do You Write About Race?”| SLJ Day of Dialog 2014
Authors address the topic of the day in this 12-minute clip from the “Diversity in Middle Grade Fiction” panel at School Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog, held in New York on May 28, 2014. Authors...
View ArticleEmily Jenkins Apologizes for “A Fine Dessert”
Describing her book as “racially insensitive,” author Emily Jenkins took to the web Sunday morning to apologize for her picture book A Fine Dessert (Schwartz & Wade, 2015), announcing her intent to...
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