Diversity

Tell Me Another Story, fromThe Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in collaboration with the Office Performing Arts + Film, highlights past and present creators and advocates whose focus has uplifted children’s literature.

From the Walter Dean Myers and Sydney Taylor Awards to the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature, 11 honors you should know about. Use them to expand your collection and recommend worthy titles to teachers, parents, and young readers. 

Books are being challenged across the country; districts in Pennsylvania and Texas dominate the news with their decisions to remove materials. 

The author of the Schneider Family Book Award-winning novel Show Me a Sign recommends four recent releases.

In recent years, there has been a surge of Colombian creators crafting works that celebrate the vibrancy and resiliency of their culture, broadening the diversity and scope of Latino representation in children's publishing.

Initiatives like Gale’s Bias Review Project and World Book’s Sensitive Language Project aim to identify poorly represented content areas and correct outdated language. 

Pat Scales answers readers' questions about library staff deselecting materials, the most challenged booklist, and parental complaints about an "offensive" article.

The BCALA Children and Youth Literary Awards, sponsored by SLJ, honor phenomenal works of fiction and nonfiction by Black authors in four categories.

The graphic novelist strives to emulate kids’ storytelling styles in his books, about Cuban American siblings who use a little magic to fight monsters.