Booksgiving!

November 16, 2010 – 1:55 pm

Turkey Day. Autumn Pie Day. American Gluttony Day. Thanksgiving. It’s coming. Are you ready? Have you picked out a book to get your kids in a spirit of thanks and appreciation for the natural world? Have you picked out a book to teach your kids the American origins of popular Thanksgiving foods like cranberries, potatoes, [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Prizes and Veterans

November 12, 2010 – 6:39 pm

There’s been a lot of chatter about prizes lately! The ALA has added another children’s book award—and more diversity. The new Stonewall Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award will be recognizing books for young readers relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience. There could also be a prize for you! To [...]

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Native American Heritage Books

November 9, 2010 – 5:53 pm

It’s Native American Heritage month, and do we ever have recommendations for you! You can go to our site and see all our Native American titles, but we’re going to highlight a couple of them today. Sky Dancers is a majestic story of the Mohawk steal workers who built the skyscrapers of New York City, [...]

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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: Changing and Expanding Communities

July 23, 2010 – 11:39 am

Some interesting essays round the blogosphere this week touching on all kinds of diversity—race and more! Cynic’s blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates, and he has a really interesting look at the progression of ethnic groups through his neighborhood: first the Irish, then the Jews, now the African Americans. Each group starts as outsiders, whom the insiders [...]

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Video Thursday: Illegal European Immigrants

June 10, 2010 – 1:07 pm

Via Stuff White People Do, a different perspective on Arizona’s new immigration law: Ah, humor. Reminds me of this now-classic tee shirt: But all kidding aside, what we need is not more people with guns. It’s more schools with pencils and books, more community centers offering classes for adult immigrants. And a society that looks [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Memorial Day Edition

May 28, 2010 – 1:28 pm

Book Expo America has finished and Memorial Day is almost here, but in between, here’s your weekly batch of diversity reading! Looking back to the era of Civil Rights protests and Civil Rights legislation, Breach of Peace presents some amazing portraits of some of the 1961 Freedom Riders—with their mugshots, recent interviews, and recent photos. [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Heritage

April 9, 2010 – 5:31 pm

The census, however flawed and necessary it may be, has triggered some great writing and thinking about race and how we define ourselves. From CNN we have two great essays: journalist and filmmaker Raquel Cepeda writes on being Latino and the stories her family has told of their mixed heritage, and author Walter Mosley brings [...]

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Westerns and Modern Movies

January 7, 2010 – 5:40 pm

Here’s a great look at the portrayal of Native Americans in classic Hollywood movies: They do a great job highlighting the portrayal of American Indians as violent, uncivilized, and animalistic, and the effect that has on Native American moviegoers. I did notice, though, that all the movies they showed were fairly old, and that such [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Covers, Cultures, and Cares, Oh My!

December 18, 2009 – 6:01 pm

We get a lot of bookish news and links from librarian Betsy Bird’s blog, A Fuse #8 Production, and its Fusenews collections of literary links. This week, she brought us a couple stories of covers that we’re happy to pass along. First, we have the cover to PW’s Trends in African-American Publishing issue causing a [...]

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