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From: Lucine Kasbarian <lucinekasbarian_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:32:02 -0500 (EST)

           Thanks to Diane's comments, I think now would be a good time to mention or remind copyees about The Birthday Party Pledge, a brainchild of a number of authors, educators, librarians, and book bloggers.

          http://birthdaypartypledge.com/

          The idea is to actively build a new generation of readers by promising to give the gift of multicultural books when attending birthday parties throughout the year.

          It would probably be overstating the obvious to say that many authors of multicultural titles are today self publishing in order to be published at all. So long as statistics do not reflect self-published books, we have a less than complete picture of what is happening in this area.

          Best,

          Lucine Kasbarian
     Լուսին Գասպարեան
     www.lucinekasbarian.com
     http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Lucine_Kasbarian


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     From: Foote, Diane <dfoote_at_dom.edu>
     To: ccbc-net <ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu>
     Sent: Tue, Feb 4, 2014 11:23 am
     Subject: [ccbc-net] "Marginal" Awards




     Hello everyone! Fascinating discussion! And amazingly informative stats coming
     out of the CCBC -- kudos to you all; this is a huge service to all of us.

     I disagree strongly with the notion that ethnic awards are "marginalized." If
     you compare them to the Caldecott and Newbery, maybe so. But by that measure,
     every single existing children's book award is marginalized, including the
     National Book Award. It's just really hard to compare awards that have been
     around for 75+ years with everything else. If Belpre and CSK are marginalized,
     then so are the Sibert, Geisel, Wilder, Carnegie, Batchelder, etc. awards.

     The CSK is almost 45; the Belpre almost 20. The CSK does have a higher profile
     than the Belpre RIGHT NOW; perhaps that will change as awareness grows (and
     let's not be passive; each and every one of us, as KT notes and so many here
     have agreed we do, needs to talk up these books, write about these books, and
     BUY these books; hehe, we're probably preaching to the choir here). I do think
     awareness of the Belpre will grow faster than awareness for other awards, given
     the enormous growth of Latinos as a portion of the U.S. population.

     I echo the call for all of us to suggest books by and about people of all
     ethnicities to people of all ethnicities: I do buy gift books and make book
     recommendations across cultures and I'm so glad many here also do that. I'm sad
     THE CREATION by James Weldon Johnson, illustrated by James E. Ransome, is out of
     print; that was one of my favorite gifts to give at christenings and baptisms!
     --Diane, dfoote_at_dom.edu, 708-524-6054

     Diane Foote
     Assistant Dean, GSLIS
     Dominican University
     7900 W. Division St.
     River Forest, IL 60305
     http://www.dom.edu/gslis



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