Thursday, July 12, 2012

Diversity in Kid’s Lit — 110 and Counting.

realkidsgoodbooks:

Inspired by Roxane Gay at The Rumpus, here’s a long old list of diverse kid’s lit writers and illustrators. And I promise you, it is not complete. 

1. Taro Yashima, picture book writer and illustrator
2. Sherman Alexi, YA
3. Karen Katz, picture book writer and illustrator
4. Lenore Look, chapter book writer
5. LeUyen Pham, illustrator
6. Jacqueline Woodson, writer all ages
7. E.B. Lewis, illustrator
8. Jorge Argueta, picture book writer
9. Yuyi Morales, picture book writer and illustrator
10. Pat Mora, writer
11. Charles R. Smith Jr., photographer
12. Sheila Hamanaka, picture book writer and illustrator
13. Jason Chin, nonfiction
14. Beatrice Hollyer, nonfiction
15. Francisco X. Alarcon, poetry
16. Maya Christina Gonzalez, picture book writer and illustrator
17. Alice Faye Duncan, picture book writer
18. Taeeun Yoo, picture book writer and illustrator
19. Allen Say, picture book writer and illustrator
20. Sandra L. Pinkney, picture book writer
21. Myles C. Pinkney, photographer
22. Jill Krementz, nonfiction
23. Karen English, chapter book writer
24. Pamela S. Turner, nonfiction
25. Walter Dean Myers, writer, various ages

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Thursday, April 12, 2012
“I learned a long time ago that life often introduces young people to situations they are in no way prepared for, even good girls, lucky girls who want for nothing. Sometimes, when you least expect it, you become the girl in the woods. You lose your name because another one is forced on you. You think you are alone until you find books about girls like you. Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds.”

From Roxane Gay’s superb, truly incredible essay on strength, stories, and the Hunger Games. (via mollitudo)

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