Paying Attention to Diversity

There has been a lot of attention recently being paid to the issue of diversity in children’s and young adult books. Here are links to some of the manyposts and articlesresponding to this:

The We Need Diverse Books Campaign. Thistook place over three days last week, but it is still going strong. Check out the #weneeddiversebooks tweets andthe weneeddiversebookstumblrto see the incredible range of responses.
SLJ’s dedicated Diversity Issue. Articles include “Children’s Books. Still an All-White...