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Anne Sibley O’Brien

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Anne Sibley O’Brien is an award-winning author and illustrator of thirty-eight books about diverse children and communities, whose work has regularly been cited for attention to authentic cultural details. She majored in Studio Art at Mount Holyoke College, spending her junior year at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea. She has also been engaged in education about multicultural literature, diversity and antiracism for more than forty years. Her experience of being raised bilingual and bicultural in South Korea as the daughter of White American medical workers was the catalyst for her lifelong focus on human difference.

Brenna Callahan

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Brenna graduated from Bates College in 2015, where she studied Race and Education and French and Francophone Studies. Brenna's interest in diverse picture books is inspired by her work with an early literacy intervention program in Maine and her experiences reading with students of color. She completed her master’s in clinical social work at Smith College.

Brittany Kester

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Lisely Laboy

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Deborah Tomaras

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Laura Beals D’Elia

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Christina Bell

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Andrea Breau

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Ann Lindell

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Jason Heckathorn

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John Jack

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Megan Koppitch

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Patty Takacs

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Laura Beals D’Elia

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Danling Fu

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Kirsten Cappy

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Marcela Peres

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Meaghan Bonnaghan

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Patty Duval

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Suzanne Chapman

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Andrea Jamison

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Ramona Caponegro

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Suzan Alteri

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Anne Sibley O’Brien

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Anne Sibley O’Brien is an award-winning author and illustrator of thirty-eight books about diverse children and communities, whose work has regularly been cited for attention to authentic cultural details. She majored in Studio Art at Mount Holyoke College, spending her junior year at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea. She has also been engaged in education about multicultural literature, diversity and antiracism for more than forty years. Her experience of being raised bilingual and bicultural in South Korea as the daughter of White American medical workers was the catalyst for her lifelong focus on human difference.

Lisely Laboy

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Andrea Breau

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April Hines

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Ginessa Mahar

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Jesse Mixson

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Katiana Bagué

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Kestrel Ward

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Lisa Campbell

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Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler

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Mari Meke

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Michelle Nolan

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Patty Takacs

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Stephanie Birch

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Lisely Laboy

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Christina Bell

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Chelsea Johnston

Jane Harrell

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Poushali Bhadury

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Xiaoli Ma

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Kenneth Kidd

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Suzan Alteri

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Laurie Taylor

Todd Digby

Cara Boyer

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Ella Terran

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Harrison Turner

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Isabella Davis

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Savannah Gibson

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Patty Takacs

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Roxanne Russell

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