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Re: Multicultural Statistics for 2013

From: Claudia Pearson <pearsoncrz_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:59:47 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
Harking back to what booksellers will buy and publishers will publish, do you think this shift might have as much, if not more, to do with the commercial success of some Asian authors, like Lisa Yee,  than with Newbery Awards. Commercial success of these books is proof that whites will read books with this kind of non-white characters for entertainment, while Newbery Award books still tend to be seen as books kids read for school assignments.

Claudia Pearson
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From: "K.T. Horning"
Sent: Feb 4, 2014 9:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Multicultural Statistics for 2013

That used to be true, Nancy, for all kinds of multicultural literature.  I think folklore was considered a bottomless well of multiculturalism -- remember all those cultural variants of Cinderella? We still get college students doing that assignment, even though the books they are now using are ten years old or more.

I looked at our Asian log for 2013 to be sure. We recorded just three folklore books last year in the Asian log (and one is a collection of Aesop fables illustrated by a Japanese illustrator.) There is one story of the Chinese zodiac, and one retelling of an an East Indian folktale.

It looks like the majority of books by and about Asians and Asian-Americans are novels. Do you think this is a result Asian-American authors winning the Newbery and Printz? We had A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Newbery, 2002), A Step from Heaven by An Na (Printz, 2002), Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Newbery, 2005), and American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Printz, 2007).  It may just be coincidence but we have noted a marked increase in books by Asian-American authors in the past ten years. Prior to Linda Sue Park winning the Newbery, the award hadn't gone to an Asian-American author since 1928.

--KT


On 2/4/2014 9:20 AM, Nancy Tolson wrote:
Re: [ccbc-net] Multicultural Statistics for 2013 K.T. What about folklore? I think a lot of Asian books center around folk tales.


 

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