I invited my guest author to respond today, Sandra Neil Wallace, on the Wall Street Journal Op Ed piece, “Reading From Left to Left at Barnes & Noble.” The author, Dave Seminara, objected to a book display of Inspiring Books to Empower Young Readers because it was too liberal. He writes: Unless you lock your children in a…
Is it just me or did the #MeToo movement in children’s book publishing started by Anne Ursu seem to get squashed out by the greater powers that be? School Library Journal, for instance, has taken down the post about Sexual Harassment in Children’s Publishing a number of times. It’s back up now but the comments with…
Banned Book Week starts on September 23rd. It’s the annual celebration of the Freedom to Read. It’s a week to speak out for banned and challenged books. Here are the banned and challenged books that I recommend! And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole And Tango Makes Three is…
Update: I met with the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and they are cataloging the #MeToo movement as part of their archives collection. I alerted the manager of special projects for the #MeToo movement to include what is happening in children’s book publishing. So while the School Library Journal has chosen…
There has been a lot of tweets lately about #OwnVoices and who is writing diversity in children’s books after a controversial TedTalk by Nora Raleigh Baskin. I found this article by The Good Men Project that puts everything into perspective. In this post: I will lay out why racism is the foundation for #OwnVoices controversy…