Weekly Roundup: June 30 - July 6, 2013

• Multicultural Books for Children: 40+ Book Lists at Pragmatic Mom

• Whitewashing: The Disappearance of Race and Ethnicity from YA Covers  at Inside a Dog

• Sci Fi Fantasy Books for Kids That Have Disabled Characters  at Patheos

• Russian Book for Teens Tackles LGBT Prejudice, Growing Up  at The Moscow News

• Kolkata Schools Tweek Classics to Teach Gender Sensitivity  at Times of India

Double Dose: Weekly Roundup: June 16 - June 29, 2013

• Openly YA Tour Hits the Road at Publisher's Weekly

• Resources for Parents of Gender Variant Children  at Express Milwaukee

• As Demographics Shift, Kids' Books Stay Stubbornly White  at NPR's Code Switch

• Why Hasn't the Number of Multicultural Books Increased in Eighteen Years?  at Lee & Low's blog

• Shaikha Bodour Emphasises Importance of Providing More Books to Visually Impaired  at Gulf News

• How Young Adult Literature Challenges Gender Norms  at Thought Catalog

• Degrees of Difficulty: Writing the Other at Rich in Color

• When Every Culture Is a Foreign Culture: Writing on the Autism Spectrum  at Rich in Color

Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments!

Weekly Roundup: June 2 - June 8, 2013

•  Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman: 'I'm Looking Forward to Redressing the Balance for Teenagers' at The Guardian

• New Book Details How to Teach Yoga to Autistic and Special-Needs Kids at SunSentinel

• The Worry-Free Vacation at Rich in Color

• A Short List of Great Resources for Racial Diversity in Young Adult Sci-Fi  at bitchmedia

•  Black Characters Put Parents Off Books, New Children's Laureate Says at the Telegraph

• What Is Authentic, And What Is Offensive?  at CBC Diversity

• Mermaids in America  at Diversity in YA

Weekly Roundup: May 19 - May 25, 2013

• Little Women: Children's Literature's Stand-In Parents at The Guardian

• Ruth Feldman's 'Blue Thread' An Important YA Read: Review at New Voices

•  Archie Comics Gay Kiss: 'Playful Poke' Issue Released on Aug. 7 at Examiner.com

• Diversity on the Page, Behind the Pencil, and in the Office at Publisher's Weekly

• Using Diversity in YA Literature to Open the Doors of Reading  at ALA

• Book Covers: How Gender Is Not the Only Issue  at the HuffPost

• Children's Book Author Allen Say On Winning Awards & His Latest Project  at Oregon Public Broadcasting

• 2013 Middle Grade Black Boys: Seriously, People?  at Fuse #8

Weekly Roundup: May 12 - May 18, 2013

• Celebrate YA Books That Feature Haitian Culture at The Hub

• 10 YA Books About Southeast Asian Americans at Diversity in YA

Older but still good:

• Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Characters in YA Fiction at The Hub

Weekly Roundup: May 5 - May 11, 2013

• The Gender Coverup at the HuffPost

• YA Books Need to Reflect Our Diverse Society at The Telegraph

• Fredrick McKissack, Half of Award-Winning Writing Team, Dies at 73  at SLJ

•  Judging Covers at CBC Diversity

Weekly Roundup: April 28 - May 4, 2013

• This, That, Both, Neither: The Badging of Biracial Identity in Young Adult Realism at YALSA

• The UAE's IBBY Conference Was 'Much More Than Bringing Children Together with Books' at The National

• Anne Frank's Diary Too 'Pornographic' For 7th-Grade Students, Claims Michigan Parent at the Huffington Post 

• Racial and gender inequalities in YA literature covered in new issue of YALSA's Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults at American Libraries Magazine

 Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments!

 

Weekly Roundup: April 21 - April 27, 2013

• Review of Freaks Like Us by Susan Vaught at The Guardian

• Penguin Books India Launches 'INKED' at India Education Diary

• Ezra Jack Keats Is Celebrated by Akron Art Museum for Classic Illustrated Storybook "The Snowy Day" at Cleveland.com (I saw this exhibit at The Jewish Museum in New York and highly recommend it to anyone who has the chance to see it)

Weekly Roundup: April 14-20, 2013

Every week we come across various article and things that relate to diversity issues in children's and young adult books. Rather than attempting to write individual posts about each one, we've decided to try a weekly roundup. We're just going to link to things we deem most pertinent, but some good ones are sure to slip through the cracks, so if you have anything to add, please let us know in the comments!

 Weekly roundup for April 14-20:

• "To J.K. Rowling, from Cho Chang"  by Rachel Rostad at Youtube (not safe for work)

• Response to Critiques of "To J.K. Rowling, from Cho Chang" by Rachel Rostad at Youtube

•  Children's Books with Minority Characters Are Hard to Find; Here Are at Few Resources at Southern California Public Radio

• From the Heart: Illustrating Across Race and Culture  upcoming event with author/illustrator Anne Sibley O'Brien in Watertown, MA

•  Representing LGBT Romance on Young Adult Book Covers on Malinda Lo's blog

•  How Do You Find Feminist Children's Books? at bitchmedia

Older articles that may be of interest:

• Talking to Kids About Race  at the Battle Creek Enquirer

• Publishers Speak Out About Diversity: An Interview with the CBC Diversity Committee at YALSA

• Publishing and Diversity  at American Indians in Children's Literature