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

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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 […]

For The Love of The Game: BIPOC Sports Stories

Lisely Laboy is the project manager at Diverse BookFinder. Lisely holds a master’s degree in Information and Library Sciences from Florida State University and undergraduate degrees from the University of Florida in Sociology and Women’s Studies. She has 10 years of public library experience, including time as a programming librarian for children and teens. Every […]

Searching for Picture Books about Segregation and Civil Rights Struggles – Outside the South!

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Alice Levine has been an educator for more than 40 years, primarily working with adult learners and families. Ms. Levine has also been active in social justice causes, especially immigration justice, for many years. Starting during her decades of work with parents, guardians, and families in the Boston Public Schools, she developed a particular interest […]

Summer Reading 2024: BIPOC Girls on Adventure

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“Where once people of color were merely talked about, we finally get to do the talking.” – An Illustrator Interview with Minnie Phan

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Minnie Phan (she/her) is a queer Vietnamese American cartoonist, illustrator and writer based in Oakland, CA. Her work has been featured by Google, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Public Library, for which she illustrated a citywide reading campaign in 2022. She is the illustrator of the picture book The […]

Diverse Books – Celebrate Ramadan & Eid al-Fitr

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Lisely Laboy (she/ella) is the project manager at Diverse BookFinder. Lisely holds a master’s degree in Information and Library Sciences from Florida State University and undergraduate degrees from the University of Florida in Sociology and Women’s Studies. She has 10 years of public library experience, including time as a programming librarian for children and teens. […]

“In order to do representation well, we’re going to have to either confront or subvert all sorts of stereotypes.” – An Author Interview with Malcolm Newsome

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Malcolm Newsome is a children’s book author from the Chicago area. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology and now works in cyber security for a company called Jemurai Security. He writes picture books with the aim of bringing hope and possibility to as many young people as he can. Malcolm is a […]

Diverse BookFinder Winter Gift Guide 2023

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It’s that time of year again; when we’re all searching for the best gifts for all our friends and loved ones. Well, we might be a little biased, but here at Diverse BookFinder, we think that books make the very best gifts and if you agree with us, then we’ve got you covered! We’ve offered […]

“I want Native children to see themselves in modern stories in their communities…” – An Author Interview with Laurel Goodluck

Laurel Goodluck is Mandan, Hidatsa from the prairies of North Dakota, and Tsimshian from the rainforest in Alaska. She now resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her Diné husband, where they raised two children also bent on storytelling in journalism and acting. Belonging to an intertribal family is at the heart of her stories, encouraging […]

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