Announcing Our first DiYA Monthly Book Roundup!

February 10, 2012 – 11:32 am

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 [...]

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I Wear My Sunglasses . . . All the Time

September 6, 2011 – 2:46 pm

A couple months ago I made a discovery. It all started when I noticed the lenses on my sunglasses were badly scratched and beyond repair. I have worn Oakley sunglasses for years. While browsing the Oakley website I stumbled upon Asian Fit Sunglasses.

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Photo Thursday: An Empty Chair

December 16, 2010 – 6:36 pm

Last week, Chinese writer and activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel peace prize. He is imprisoned, as is his wife; no relative or representative could attend the ceremony. In his honor, instead of a video this Thursday, we have a single moving photo: Liu Xiaobo’s empty chair.

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This Week in Diversity: Bullies, Surfer-Girls, and Ancient Diversity

October 22, 2010 – 5:38 pm

October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and there are lots of great resources to use in supporting children and teens who are being bullied. We have several books, including First Day in Grapes, Willie Wins, and Chess Rumble. The Department of Health has a Stop Bullying Now site, and the National Center for Bullying has [...]

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Video Thursday: Chopsticks!

October 14, 2010 – 5:14 pm

Via Angry Asian Man, a music video on the environmental impact of disposable chopsticks: It’s great to see people thinking about the little, easy-to-do ways we can all help the environment—all the while supporting the deliciousness of sushi and other foods traditionally eaten with chopsticks!

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This Week in Diversity: Bridging the Gap

September 17, 2010 – 3:44 pm

It’s that time of the week! We begin the roundup today with an incredibly cool new project that seeks to help bridge the gap between English and written Mandarin by going back to the visual roots of characters. Take a look: Bridging the gap in a different way, over at Summer Edward’s Caribbean Children’s Literature [...]

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Two Books for Tu Books!

September 10, 2010 – 3:38 pm

It’s official! Our new Tu Books imprint has acquired its first two books, which will be published in Fall 2011. Here’s the formal announcement: Stacy Whitman at Lee & Low Books has acquired the first novels for the Tu Books imprint, which launches in fall 2011. The imprint will focus on multicultural MG/YA science fiction [...]

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This Week in Diversity: In Between

August 20, 2010 – 12:02 pm

Greetings on this fine Friday! We have a couple links for you this week, dealing with interactions and being between cultures or peoples. First, the Times has a look at Anglo-Indian culture: a relic of colonialist times, composed of people of (usually partly) European origins living in India, blending Indian and British cultures while being [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Appearance

July 30, 2010 – 3:20 pm

Greetings on another Friday afternoon! Steph Su Reads starts us out with Why I Want More Asians on YA Book Covers: My Experience with Racism, in which she shares a personal experience with racism and her dismay over the revised cover of Cindy Pon’s Silver Phoenix. Guest blogging at Feministe, Shani Hilton talks about her [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Oil, Russia, and Avenue Q

June 18, 2010 – 4:09 pm

The oil spill in the Gulf has been all over the news lately, and, frustrating though the lack of progress has been, there have been many efforts to stem the oil geyser. What about oil spills that don’t have a large impact on Americans? The Times looks at the Niger River Delta, which has seen [...]

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