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“I’ve always been an outsider…” – An Author Interview with SJ Sindu

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SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author of two literary novels (Marriage of a Thousand Lies, which won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award; and Blue-Skinned Gods, which was an Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), two hybrid chapbooks (I Once Met You But You Were Dead, which won the Split […]

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Searching for Adoptee Voices in Picture Books: The Single Story We Have and the Many Stories We Need

Infographic by Sarah Park Dahlen and David Huyck shows the need for diverse representation in picture books.

Veteran classroom teacher and Korean American transracial adoptee, Meredith Seung Mee Buse has been featured in The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer, recognized with a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and learned innumerable lessons from her students. On her blog, 365days365hours.com, Meredith grapples with her identity as a transracial adoptee and showcases her […]

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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 […]

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Youth and Innocence: Colorism in Picture Books

Illustration by Kaylani Juanita from When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff

Amy George is an MLIS graduate student at the University of Maryland with a focus on diversity and inclusion and a current intern at the Diverse BookFinder. Do you see yourself in picture books? I didn’t when I was a kid. Now as a parent I see so many diverse characters, it can be really […]

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