GritoBlast! Mission: To not only raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity but to get more of these books into classrooms and libraries. Valarie Budayr of the website Jump Into a Book and Mia Wenjen, creator of…
LatinaLista — A few years ago, the nation was “aghast” to learn how few books Latino, black, Asian and Native American children were exposed to who had characters that looked like them. The report made the children’s book publishing…
CBC Diversity INDUSTRY Q&A WITH PUBLISHER CHRISTY OTTAVIANO Please tell us about the most recent diverse book you published. I recently published Jumped In by Patrick Flores-Scott. This novel is about Sam, a Mexican American teen who’s in a…
Amigos805.com SANTA MARIA — Allan Hancock College English professor Marc García-Martínez, Ph.D., will soon join world-renowned researchers Jane Goodall and Noam Chomsky as authors whose works have been published by the San Diego State University Press (SDSU Press), college…
By Cory Silverberg CBC Diversity The publisher Lee and Low recently mobilized social media (through the nifty infographic featured) to jumpstart a discussion of diversity in children’s literature. No surprise to anyone who is paying attention, while the US…
By Silvia Vinas LatinaLista Before the success of her bestselling, mother of Latina Chick Lit — or Chica Lit — book, “The Dirty Girls Social Club,” Alisa Valdes says, “if you were a Latina you were expected to write…
