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Illustration by Baljinder Kaur from Fauja Singh Keeps Going by Simran Jeet Singh Heather Haynes Smith, Ph.D. is an associate professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. She teaches courses on special education, learning disabilities, and reading. She supports equity and reading initiatives through service, research, and providing professional development through community, professional, and […]
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Illustration by Ashley Bryan from Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan Luis is the Manager of the Courtland S. Wilson branch of the New Haven Public Library in Connecticut and a member of our Advisory Council. In this historic moment of the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide protests […]
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Illustration by Lauren Tobia from Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin Since we began collecting and coding titles for the Diverse BookFinder in 2015, we’ve been keeping track of the appearances of bi/multiracial families — that is, parents and/or children of different races and/or mixed-race people, including families built through transracial adoption. (We include […]
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Karen Wang is our summer 2020 Diverse BookFinder intern. She is a graduate student at Pratt Institute, pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science to become a children’s librarian. Before transitioning to librarianship, Karen worked in the K-12 educational technology field, developing and implementing programs for students, families, and educators across the country. Karen […]
This guest post is co-authored by our summer MLIS graduate student interns, Karen Wang and Sanura Williams. The topic was inspired by Bates student Alex Gilbertson ’22, from one of her final projects for our Co-founder and Director Dr. Krista Aronson’s Psychology course called “The Power of Picture Books.” Here at the Diverse BookFinder, our […]
Read More… from Picture Book Portrayals of Economic Struggle in the U.S.: What do the numbers say?
Sanura Williams is our summer 2020 Diverse BookFinder intern. She is a Library and Information Science graduate student at San Jose State University. Sanura aspires to work as a public librarian with a focus on youth services. She has a passion for celebrating diversity in literature, and in 2016 founded My Lit Box, an online community […]
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We’re happy to feature this guest post by author Megan Dowd Lambert. In addition to many other accomplishments (see her bio. below), Megan, in association with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, has developed the Whole Book Approach, a process building on Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) that focuses on the picture book as […]
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At the close of Immigrant Heritage Month, also the month in which we honor World Refugee Day, we celebrate the work of an important new picture book writer. In the late 1950’s, when the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America went to the high mountains of Laos to commission 32,000 Hmong men […]
Read More… from A New Voice in Picture Books: Hmong Writer Kao Kalia Yang
This is the first post in a series sharing data from our collection that identifies significant gaps in representation of BIPOC characters in picture books. This past month, in honor of Asian and Pacific Islander American (AAPI) Heritage Month — which pays “tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America’s […]
Read More… from Who’s Missing? Asian and Pacific Islander American Biographies
During this time of home learning and shuttered libraries, do you find yourself reading the same picture books over and over again with the children in your life? This guest post — by Maine author/educator Margy Burns Knight — offers an approach that might help you make those “old” books new again! Margy is a […]
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