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Re: Three more thoughts on discovering and growing the numbers of diverse books
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From: Stacy Whitman <stacylwhitman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:56:29 -0500
There are many of us out here keeping up-to-date booklists, including frontlist titles, and Cheryl's point that we discuss some of these titles is important. There is a lot more awareness out there among editors, and though the number of diverse books of the fun sort isn't huge, the quality is really wonderful.
Others have already linked to several blogs like Rich in Color and Diversity in YA, who keep track of and review new releases. Both blogs love genre fiction in particular and have been champions of the best new SFF starring people of color. So definitely follow those blogs for more in-depth discussions of particular books.
For just a jumping off point for booklists of recent titles, I keep booklists on Pinterest. You can find them here: http://www.pinterest.com/stacylwhitman/
The book lists start with "Clean" Reads for Teens. I keep diverse lists by subject (which include all books I can include under that subject, but I make sure that it includes a wide variety of POC character books as well) and by genre/age group (lists are specifically of culturally specific and culturally generic books, using the terms we discussed earlier). These lists are not publisher-specific (except for the Books I Edited and Tu Books boards)--they include books from my own company but also other companies.
On the official Lee & Low Pinterest, we also have collections in which we've tied our books to Common Core themes: http://www.pinterest.com/leeandlow/.
For specific discussion of suggested titles, I'll save that for another email when I have the time to come back, as I have to step away from the computer right now. :)
Hope these lists are helpful!
Best, Stacy Whitman Publisher Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books http://www.leeandlow.com/p/tu.mhtml swhitman_at_leeandlow.com
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:15 PM, <maggie_bo_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> Yes, please do! Would also love to see more lists like IRA's mentioned
> if others are out there (and ever since I became aware of IRA's list a
> couple years back, I wondered why it doesn't get more--really, any--"press"
> among librarians ... is it just because there is a lack of communication
> and connection between library associations and language arts/reading
> associations? Or is there some reason librarians pretty much ignore all of
> IRA's lists?)
>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:56:29 -0500
There are many of us out here keeping up-to-date booklists, including frontlist titles, and Cheryl's point that we discuss some of these titles is important. There is a lot more awareness out there among editors, and though the number of diverse books of the fun sort isn't huge, the quality is really wonderful.
Others have already linked to several blogs like Rich in Color and Diversity in YA, who keep track of and review new releases. Both blogs love genre fiction in particular and have been champions of the best new SFF starring people of color. So definitely follow those blogs for more in-depth discussions of particular books.
For just a jumping off point for booklists of recent titles, I keep booklists on Pinterest. You can find them here: http://www.pinterest.com/stacylwhitman/
The book lists start with "Clean" Reads for Teens. I keep diverse lists by subject (which include all books I can include under that subject, but I make sure that it includes a wide variety of POC character books as well) and by genre/age group (lists are specifically of culturally specific and culturally generic books, using the terms we discussed earlier). These lists are not publisher-specific (except for the Books I Edited and Tu Books boards)--they include books from my own company but also other companies.
On the official Lee & Low Pinterest, we also have collections in which we've tied our books to Common Core themes: http://www.pinterest.com/leeandlow/.
For specific discussion of suggested titles, I'll save that for another email when I have the time to come back, as I have to step away from the computer right now. :)
Hope these lists are helpful!
Best, Stacy Whitman Publisher Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books http://www.leeandlow.com/p/tu.mhtml swhitman_at_leeandlow.com
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:15 PM, <maggie_bo_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> Yes, please do! Would also love to see more lists like IRA's mentioned
> if others are out there (and ever since I became aware of IRA's list a
> couple years back, I wondered why it doesn't get more--really, any--"press"
> among librarians ... is it just because there is a lack of communication
> and connection between library associations and language arts/reading
> associations? Or is there some reason librarians pretty much ignore all of
> IRA's lists?)
>
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