Did you know it’s National Hispanic Heritage Month? Check out this great list of Latino and Latina YA and children’s writers!
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(Source: lauriehalseanderson)
Did you know it’s National Hispanic Heritage Month? Check out this great list of Latino and Latina YA and children’s writers!
(Source: lauriehalseanderson)
Peep the epic new Breathless Reads trailer on MTV's Hollywood Crush blog!
MTV featuring ya book trailers on their website? Four for you, MTV, four for you.
(Source: breathlessreads)
Ellen Oh (via necesitamosunarevolucion)
Found the original essay, and added the sources in. Check it out; it is really a wonderful read (and was even cross posted to Racialicious).
The best book covers are the ones without people on them, and the art leaves it up to your imagination.
Diversity in Kid’s Lit — 110 and Counting.
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
From YA Pride: 2012 LGBT YA by the numbers — in which I crunch some 2012 numbers and make pie charts.
Kidlit rock stars at ALA 2012
Those of you who’ve been following us for a while know the love we have for the amazing book trailer Nina LaCour and her friends created for her latest novel, THE DISENCHANTMENTS, which came out in February. But THE DISENCHANTMENTS was not Nina’s first book, nor was the trailer for THE DISENCHANTMENTS her first book trailer. In fall of 2009, Nina’s debut novel, HOLD STILL, was published to great acclaim (it was even a Morris Award finalist!), and she and her very talented friends (seriously, so jealous of how brilliant they are) did a trailer for that book, too! You can watch it here.
Cut to now (get it? because we’re talking about movies?)—Nina and her friends are going to shoot a HOLD STILL movie! But they need some help, so they’re working on funding the film through Kickstarter. Click the link to learn more about Nina, the book, the cast, and more!
We love this trend of authors adapting their own books into film (see: Stephen Chbosky and The Perks of Being A Wallflower). Check out the kickstarter!
YA Pride: 2012 LGBT YA Books, July-September
Every Friday in June, I’ll be listing the YA novels first published in the United States in 2012 that include LGBT main characters. Today I’m covering books published in the third quarter: July-September.
Check it out! Author Malinda Lo is compiling a great reference of LGBT YA books that are being published this year!
