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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 […]

Breaking News – DBF Wins EMIERT Multicultural Award!

We are thrilled to announce that an article based on DBF data, entitled, “Room for Improvement: Picture Books Featuring BIPOC Characters, 2015-2020”, has been awarded the 2024 American Library Association (ALA) Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award (ALA/EMIERT Press Release). The Ethnic and Multicultural Information and Exchange Round Table […]

Celebrating the Black Diaspora in Children’s Books

Dr. Krista Aronson is a co-founder and the Director of the Diverse BookFinder. She is a professor of psychology and Associate Dean of Faculty at Bates College in Maine. I am a citizen of the African diaspora. My Black ancestors came to the United States involuntarily as enslaved people several generations ago. Their unrecorded history […]

Diverse Picture Books: The Puerto Rican Diaspora

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. ** […]

Revisiting Who’s Missing in Asian and Pacific Islander American Biographies

Covers of Picture Book Biographies Featuring AAPI People

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, honoring the past and present contributions of Asian and Pacific Islander people to the creation and prosperity of the United States of America. Like other cultural commemorations (Hispanic Heritage Month, Native American Heritage Month, etc.) Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month celebrates people from a vast variety of nations […]

LGBTQ+ Representation in Diverse Picture Books

Two mothers stand in the snow beside their daughter, on the right side a large green and yellow dragon is depicted in the clouds

Illustration by Basia Tran from My Footprints by Bao Phi (Capstone Press, 2020) Laura Gaskill (she/her) recently graduated with an MLIS degree from San Jose State University, and is currently an intern at the Diverse BookFinder. She is excited to advocate for diverse and inclusive representation in children’s literature, and strives to make library spaces […]

Exploring Cross-Group Relationships in Older Children’s Books

Illustration by Briana Dengoue from April & Mae

Illustrations by Briana Dengoue from April & Mae and the Book Club Cake by Megan Dowd Lambert The Diverse BookFinder expands In the fall of 2021, the Diverse BookFinder was awarded a three-year National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to fund a project titled: Middle Grade and Young Adult […]

The Power of Cross Group Books — Internationally!

Illustration by Scott M. Fischer from Lottie Paris and the Best Place by Angela Johnson.

Last month I received an unexpected and delightful invitation: to meet via Zoom with the “Black Moms of Austria,” the “Black Dads of Germany,” and a number of their allies, to share the Diverse BookFinder’s research on Cross Group books. The contact had been made through Naa Anorkor (top right in the photo), an Austrian […]

What Does a Diverse Collection Look Like?

Photo of various diverse books on a library display shelf.

Laura Beals D’Elia is the Library Teacher at the Armstrong Elementary School in Westborough, MA. She has been an elementary library teacher since 2002. She has a BA in English and Children’s Literature from Framingham State University and a MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has presented at various state and national conferences on […]

The Representation of Language & Cultural Identity in U.S. Picture Books, A Series (5)

Decorative header image including various book covers.

In this final post of our series highlighting the representation of diverse languages and cultures in picture books, DBF intern and MLIS graduate student Kat Wyly examines how essential it is to include global titles in translation in order to achieve broad representation in collections. The series highlights the Diverse BookFinder (DBF), not only as […]

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