These inclusive children's books by women of color highlight awesome yet underrepresented communities like Sikh, indigenous, and Dominican. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2019-11-21 11:35:59 UTC ]
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In our most recent salary and jobs survey, of the 664 people who responded, 119 said they have been sexually harassed. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Presenting our editors’ selections of eagerly awaited children's and YA books for the coming season. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic will this autumn publish a second children’s book by comedian Dara Ó Briain. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hiring more employees of colour and seeing stories with BAME characters as normal, not niche, are just some ideas suggested by the book industry following a damning report which revealed that only 4% of all the children’s books published in the UK last year featured a black, Asian or minority... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Only 4% of all the children’s books published in the UK last year featured a black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) character, according to “alarming” new figures from a study into ethnic representation in children’s literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ethnic minority characters should feature in more books and not be defined by their "otherness". Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almost a third of school-age children are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. But they will still struggle to find characters who resemble themselvesBooks can show us the world both as it is, and as it could be – “mirrors and windows”, as the author Malorie Blackman notes. For... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta Books is to publish I Will Never See the World Again, the "profoundly moving" memoir of Ahmet Altan, written from the jail in which he is serving a life sentence. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wayland Books, part of the Hachette Children’s Group, is publishing a non-fiction title about masculinity by Jeffrey Boakye and Darren Chetty. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Lost Words (Hamish Hamilton) has become the first children’s book to be shortlisted for the £5,000 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children's Books' executive editor Sara Sargent says she's 'combining a non-traditional way of sourcing books with traditional storytelling' with Wattpad. The post Sourcing Content: Sara Sargent of HarperCollins Children’s Books on Working With Wattpad appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After receiving praise from LGBTQ activists across the globe, the Wellington-based authors of LGBTQ children's book Promised Land have released a second book in the series, Maiden Voyage. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, in response to the long-running discussion around prejudice in the author’s work. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having an award named in her honour, from America's Association for Library Service to Children, when in 1952 a reader complained to the publisher of Little House on the Prairie about what the reader found to be a deeply offensive statement about Native... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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About 2,000 children’s and YA book authors and their supporters have signed onto a campaign to oppose President Trump's controversial family separation immigration policy under the name "Kid Lit Says No Kids in Cages." The campaign made its appearance Monday on Twitter with a statement signed by... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Geraldine McCaughrean, accepting award for Where the World Ends, warned that restricting the language children read risks creating a future underclass who are ‘easy to manipulate’Carnegie medal winner Geraldine McCaughrean has castigated the books industry for dumbing down language in children’s... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week's hot books include a biography of Rembrandt, and an Australian YA novel that is collecting several international sales. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S re-ups its V.C. Andrews franchise, David Hajdu goes graphic, George Wallace’s daughter sells a memoir, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world’s biggest sports scandal, plus the lost world between England and Scotland. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors, publishers, and booksellers gathered for a panel discussion on efforts to reach young readers Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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