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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:24:52 -0500
This month on CCBC-Net, we're looking at books for children and young adults that feature gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or trangender characters, and also the climate in which those books are created and shared.
When we consider literature for young adults, it's easy to look back at even the past few years and see how much has changed, and how many more books are available that are beginning to offer a range of GLBT experiences. (Although of course it's still just a handful in the overall scope of pulishing.) But when we consider fiction for younger children, and picture books for young children and families, it's much more difficult to point at a wide body of work--every book published still feels to me like a groundbreaker.
What do you see as hallmaks in GLBT publishing for youth? What do you consider utstanding and notable GLBT books of the past and the present?
In addition to looking at the books themselves, we also want to look at the climate in which GLBT literature for youth has been written, published, and made available over the years. We're hoping we can hear from many perspectives--writers, editors, publishers, librarians, teachers, and others, to find out what is happening in your world today as you create, edit, publish, or purchase and make GLBT books available to chidren, teens and famlies. Is the climate in which you do your work--whatever that work is--different than it was in the past? iF so, how?
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 03 Jun 2004 04:24:52 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:24:52 -0500
This month on CCBC-Net, we're looking at books for children and young adults that feature gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or trangender characters, and also the climate in which those books are created and shared.
When we consider literature for young adults, it's easy to look back at even the past few years and see how much has changed, and how many more books are available that are beginning to offer a range of GLBT experiences. (Although of course it's still just a handful in the overall scope of pulishing.) But when we consider fiction for younger children, and picture books for young children and families, it's much more difficult to point at a wide body of work--every book published still feels to me like a groundbreaker.
What do you see as hallmaks in GLBT publishing for youth? What do you consider utstanding and notable GLBT books of the past and the present?
In addition to looking at the books themselves, we also want to look at the climate in which GLBT literature for youth has been written, published, and made available over the years. We're hoping we can hear from many perspectives--writers, editors, publishers, librarians, teachers, and others, to find out what is happening in your world today as you create, edit, publish, or purchase and make GLBT books available to chidren, teens and famlies. Is the climate in which you do your work--whatever that work is--different than it was in the past? iF so, how?
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 03 Jun 2004 04:24:52 PM CDT
