March 7th – March 14th, 2013
ON OUR RADAR
- HarperCollins and Lee & Low create winning proposals for First Book’s Stories for All Project
- The Diversity in YA Tumblr, managed by YA authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo, is back!
- On Goodreads: Best YA Books with Non-White Protagonist
- Lovely interview with Grace Lin for the Girl Scouts’ Storyteller Series
- The CBC’s visual Ode to Ezra Jack Keats, who would have been 97 on 3/11/13
- For Women’s History Month, Open Road Media spotlights Virginia Hamilton (author of 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great): Virginia Hamilton, The Great
- PW KidsCast: A Conversation with Alaya Dawn Johnson on the cultural, technological, and musical influences that helped shape the futuristic Brazilian setting of her new book.
- Two Rappers’ daughters are working on a YA novel: Lil Wayne’s daughter Reginae Carter and Birdman’s daughter Bria Williams have teamed up to write, “Paparazzi Princesses” – set to be published in June by “Cash Money Content.
- An Interview with Harlem’s Little Blackbird Author Renée Watson on Watch. Connect. Read.
NEW RELEASES
- March 5: When We Wake by Karen Healey (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- March 7: My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood, by Tameka Fryer Brown, illustrated by Shane W. Evans (Viking Children’s/Penguin)
- March 26: Book trailer for Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina (Candlewick)
AWARD NEWS
Diversity in YA interviews the Tu Books New Visions Finalists (a new writing award for a debut author of color for a middle grade or young adult science fiction, fantasy, or mystery novel)
EVENTS
This Month
- March 23: Grace Lin to appear at Porter Square Books in support of Cambridge Friends School
- March 23: Karen Healey & Malinda Lo Headline Internet Chat at the Little Brown Lounge
- Beginning March 26: The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Presents: Latino Folk Tales: Cuentos Populares Art by Latino Artists Through March 29: Tall Tales & Huge Hearts: Raúl Colón, National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature
Upcoming
- April 2: International Children’s Book Day – this year’s poster by Ashley Bryan
- April 30: Celebrate Día (Diversity in Action) , a nationally recognized initiative that emphasizes the importance of literacy for all children from all backgrounds
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT EARLIER THIS MONTH
Bless Me Ultima – the influential Chicano coming-of-age novel taught in high schools and colleges around the country – is a now a film.
