Diversify Yours(h)elf!
Hello there!
I’m at Life, the Universe, and Everything 43 this weekend, and in addition to yakking way too much on panels about everything from clothing production to the Best Kind of Dragon (cough all dragons are best cough), I’ve also given two presentation. One on the history/evolution of children’s books, and the other on reading diverse fantasy and sci fi, the benefits thereof, and my person recommendations! And I promised that I would post my recommendations here on the ol’ blog, and so I am! The evolution of kid lit really just needs a couple of titles, because it’s mostly about how’d we get from Improving Tales for Young Ladies to Too Young To Die!, so I’ll just recommend the books ABOUT writing for children/teens.
So here’s that:
The Magic Words - Cheryl B. Klein
Paperback Crush - Gabrielle Moss
The Way to Write for Children - Joan Aiken
And now for the books by not white authors that I personally recommend:
Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
Where the Mountains Meet the Moon – Grace Lin
Shadows Over Sherwood, The Lost Library - Kekla Magoon
The First State of Being – Erin Entrada Kelly
A Wish in the Dark – Christina Soontornvat
The City of Fire, The City of Ice, Dragonwings – Laurence Yep
Daydreamer- Rob Cameron
Rick Riordan Presents:
All of them, but especially:
Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting- Roseanne Brown
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky - Kwame Mbalia
Dragon Pearl - Yoon Ha Lee
Sal & Gabi Break the Universe - Carlos Hernandez
Young Adult
Flight – Sherman Alexie
I Was a Teenage Slasher! – Stephen Graham Jones
Legendborn/Bloodmarked/Oathbound – Tracy Deonn
Blood at the Root – LaDarrion Williams
A Tempest of Tea – Hafsah Faizal
The Gilded Wolves- Roshani Chokshi
Kingdom of Souls – Rena Barron
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin – Roseanne A. Brown
Six Crimson Cranes – Elizabeth Lim
Dread Nation – Justina Ireland
The Vampire’s Beautiful Daughter – S. P. Somtow
Lunar New Year Love Story – Gene Luen Yang/LeUyen Pham
American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
Artie and the Wolf Moon – Olivia Stephens
Werewolf by Night: New Wolf Rising – Taboo
Vampires of El Norte – Isabel Cañas
Vampires Never Get Old – ed. Zoraida Cordova
Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno Garcia
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Yellowface, The Poppy War, Babel - R. F. Kuang
The Grace of Kings, the Paper Menagerie – Ken Liu
Black Sun, Tread of Angels - Rebecca Roanhorse
My Heart is a Chainsaw/Don’t Fear the Reaper/The Angel of Indian Lake
The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
Star Wars: The High Republic – Justina Ireland, Lydia Kang, Zoraida Cordova, Daniel Jose Older
The Fox Wife - Yangsze Choo
The Monstrous Misses Mai - Van Hoang
Dead Cat Tail Assassins - P. Djélì Clarke
Read them. Do it for ME.
