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Characters & Creators: Latinx/Hispanic Representation Shines in Graphic Novels

Image shows thirteen book jackets of graphic novels listed in the article.

Anne Sibley O’Brien is a children’s book creator and a co-founder of the Diverse BookFinder. It’s Hispanic Heritage Month! To commemorate, we’re looking at Latinx/Hispanic representation in recent books for children and youth. (Twenty Spanish-speaking nations, including Spain, are defined as Hispanic. The DBF Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American tag encompasses characters whose national origins are from nineteen of […]

Humanizing History: How Picture Books Help Us Teach Hard Truths

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 […]

Multiracial Families in Recent Picture Books

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 […]

Women’s Equality Day 2020: Commemorating a Century of Women’s Suffrage for Some, Not All

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 […]

Picture Book Portrayals of Economic Struggle in the U.S.: What do the numbers say?

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 […]

Dignity In All Work: Career Day with Essential Workers

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 […]

A New Voice in Picture Books: Hmong Writer Kao Kalia Yang

The image is a photo of author Kao Kalia Yang, head turned and smiling slightly at the camera.

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 […]

Who’s Missing? Asian and Pacific Islander American Biographies

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 […]

“I HATE FICTION!” — Choosing Diverse Books for Particular Readers

Last week Director Krista Aronson and I, as cofounders of the Diverse BookFinder, had the pleasure of joining Andrew Grant-Thomas and Melissa Giraud of EmbraceRace, for a webinar as a follow-up to our action guide on selecting “good” books among those featuring characters who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). One of our […]

For These Strange & Difficult Times: Finding Diverse Electronic Picture Books #2

Our first post gave instructions for finding e-books through your local library. But what if you don’t have access to a public library, or your library doesn’t subscribe to the CloudLibrary? Below, we offer our thoughts on two programs offering electronic picture books, free for the first 30 days with a trial subscription — Epic! […]

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