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…
By Angela Cervantes CBC Diversity I am an original flashlight girl. You know the type. Hours after parents called for bedtime; I was still up under my bedcovers with a flashlight reading a favorite book. Many times, those books…
By Shelley Diaz CBC Diversity I decided I wanted to work in children’s publishing in sixth grade. I had devoured all of the Anne of Green Gables books by this time, and I was convinced that I could be…
CBC Diversity 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…
By Nina Lindsay CBC Diversity (Editor’s Note: The following is part of a CBC Diversity series of guest posts marketing and sales of children’s books.) I have little patience for: “brown people on covers don’t sell books.” My library’s…
