WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS
WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS
We Need Diverse Books™ is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people. https://diversebooks.org/
TRANSLATED YA BOOK PRIZE WINNERS
The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative strives to raise the visibility of world literature for adults and children at the local, national and international levels. We intend to do so by facilitating close and direct collaboration between translators, librarians, publishers, editors, and educators, because we believe that these groups in collaboration are uniquely positioned to help libraries provide support and events to engage readers of all ages in a library framework that explores and celebrates literature from around the world.
https://glli-us.org/2020-translated-ya-book-prize-winners/
READING THE WORLD
CONFESSIONS OF A LITERARY EXPLORER
Take a look at Ann Morgan's reading the world list - she read her way around the world's 196 independent nations:
EIGHT AUSTRALIAN PICTURE BOOKS THAT CELEBRATE DIVERSITY
https://theconversation.com/eight-australian-picture-books-that-celebrate-family-diversity-109429
"In Australian picture books, family representation has been overwhelmingly traditional; not just “intact”, but specifically white, middle class, with a mum, dad, and a (frequently blonde) male child protagonist. Children from diverse families are rarely represented. [...Here] are eight recently published Australian picture books that break the mould and celebrate family diversity, showing that all families - whatever shape they take - are intact."
Sarah Mokrzycki , PhD Candidate, Victoria University
The Conversation, January 10, 2019
20 BOOKS TO INSPIRE SOCIAL CHANGE
In a letter to his adolescent son, Ta-Nahisi Coates shares the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world and what it’s like to inhabit a black body in the United States. Coates offers a framework for understanding the USA's history and current crisis through his personal experiences.
Featuring a foreword by award-winning Australian novelist Fleur Ferris, Underdog celebrates the diverse, dynamic and ever-changing nature of our nation's culture. From queer teen romance to dystopian comedy, hard-hitting realism to gritty allegory, this brilliant, engrossing and inspiring collection of short stories will resonate with any teen reader, proving, yet again, why there is just so much to love about #LoveOzYA.
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family’s crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother’s wisdom about triumph through endurance and she hopes for the day when she can reclaim her life.
In this stylishly illustrated biography anthology, meet 30 artists, thinkers, athletes and activists with disabilities, from past and present. From Frida Kahlo to Stephen Hawking, find out how these iconic figures have overcome obstacles, owned their differences and paved the way for others by making their bodies and minds work for them.