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Re: Look's Alvlin Ho response (or lack of an adequate one)
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From: Stacy Whitman <stacylwhitman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:40:27 -0500
[I swear, EVERY time I try to reply to the list, I get it bounced back for quoting too many lines, yet I'm deleting out lines and lines of quoted text from other emails that are hidden to me at first in my Gmail, so I'm not sure what is going wrong on my end. Re-sending and hoping it goes through this time.]
We published one last fall that's just a step up (very young middle grade, 8-10 primary audience), THE MONSTER IN THE MUDBALL by S.P. Gates, which stars a multiracial (Chinese/British white) boy and a Malawian artifact inspector, but I can't think of any besides the titles you named below in chapter books.
Best,
Stacy Whitman Publisher Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books http://www.leeandlow.com/p/tu.mhtml swhitman_at_leeandlow.com
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:17 PM, <jane_at_kidslikeus.org> wrote:
> For us, the "playing Indians" scene egregiously qualifies as
>> a "non-negotiable" even though we are really desperate for more titles in
>> this transitional chapter book format with primary characters of color. I'd
>> have to check our database, but beyond Bobby vs. Girls and Calvin Coconut,
>> I don't think we've found any others published in the past ten years
>> with primary characters who are Asian American (or multiracial) boys.
>> Jane
>>
>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:40:27 -0500
[I swear, EVERY time I try to reply to the list, I get it bounced back for quoting too many lines, yet I'm deleting out lines and lines of quoted text from other emails that are hidden to me at first in my Gmail, so I'm not sure what is going wrong on my end. Re-sending and hoping it goes through this time.]
We published one last fall that's just a step up (very young middle grade, 8-10 primary audience), THE MONSTER IN THE MUDBALL by S.P. Gates, which stars a multiracial (Chinese/British white) boy and a Malawian artifact inspector, but I can't think of any besides the titles you named below in chapter books.
Best,
Stacy Whitman Publisher Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books http://www.leeandlow.com/p/tu.mhtml swhitman_at_leeandlow.com
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:17 PM, <jane_at_kidslikeus.org> wrote:
> For us, the "playing Indians" scene egregiously qualifies as
>> a "non-negotiable" even though we are really desperate for more titles in
>> this transitional chapter book format with primary characters of color. I'd
>> have to check our database, but beyond Bobby vs. Girls and Calvin Coconut,
>> I don't think we've found any others published in the past ten years
>> with primary characters who are Asian American (or multiracial) boys.
>> Jane
>>
>
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