Hi folks! Welcome to the Scratchpad! Yay, fall is here! Hope you are enjoying temps below 90F. Time to write. Hope those words are flying against the paper.
JOIN US! For our upcoming PARTY in December. Deets to be announced soon!
LOCAL EVENTS
Webinar: Business Tips and Taxes for Writers and Illustrators with Author, CPA, Carol Topp
Date/TimeDate(s) - 11/10/2015
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS
Big shout out to Natalia Goldberg for sharing a wealth of resources and info below! Natalia is the author of: Paraguay (Other Places Travel Guide), the
indispensable travel guide to Paraguay!
Infographics>
http://i1.wp.com/blog.leeandlow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Childrens-Books-Infographic-2015-copy.jpg?zoom=1.5&resize=474%2C632 (from: http://blog.leeandlow.com/2013/06/17/why-hasnt-the-number-of-multicultural-books-increased-in-eighteen-years/)
http://www.firstbook.org/images/sfap%20lack%20of%20diversity%20ccbc%20list%202015.jpg
http://i1.wp.com/blog.leeandlow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Childrens-Books-Infographic-2015-copy.jpg?zoom=1.5&resize=474%2C632 (from: http://blog.leeandlow.com/2013/06/17/why-hasnt-the-number-of-multicultural-books-increased-in-eighteen-years/)
http://www.firstbook.org/images/sfap%20lack%20of%20diversity%20ccbc%20list%202015.jpg
Publishers:
Cinco Puntos Press (El Paso) http://cincopuntos.com
Lee & Low Books (New York) http://leeandlow.com/
- TuBooks - middle grade, YA
fantasy and scifi
- Children's Book Press -
Bilingual
- Shen's Books - focus on Asian
cultures
- Piñata Books - Children and
young adult imprint
Some Latino Authors:
- Pat Mora http://www.patmora.com/
- Monica Brown www.monicabrown.net
- Margarita Engle - 1st latina
Newberry Award winner 2014 www.margaritaengle.com/
- Gary Soto http://www.garysoto.com/index.html
Some Latino Illustrators:
- John Parra http://johnparraart.com/
- Duncan Tonatiuh http://www.duncantonatiuh.com/
Resources:
- www.cbcdiversity.com
- #drawingdiversity (hashtag
from CBC Diversity)
- School Library Journal
Diversity Issue http://www.slj.com/features/the-diversity-issue-slj-2014/
- School Library Journal
article on positive effects of cross racial scenes: http://www.slj.com/2014/05/diversity/how-cross-racial-scenes-in-picture-books-build-acceptance/
Tools and concepts for Writing Diverse Characters:
- Cultural Relevance
Rubric: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1003/CR-Rubric.pdf
- A Checklist to
"See" Race/Culture in Kid/YA Books http://www.mitaliblog.com/2014/10/a-checklist-to-see-raceculture-in-kidya.html
- "Casual Diversity"
- Transracial Writing for the
Sincere (by Nisi Sawl, author of "Writing the Other") http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/transracial-writing-for-the-sincere/
- Writing the Other
(inexpensive e-book) http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-933500-00-3.php
- Fundamentals of Writing the
Other (with nice illustrations to break up the heavy stuff) http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieljoseolder/fundamentals-of-writing-the-other#.utbKELL6d
- Representing diversity on YA
covers: http://www.cbcdiversity.com/post/131494165827/representing-diversity-on-2014-ya-book-covers
- Portraying People of COlor in
childrens YA fantasy: http://www.stacylwhitman.com/2009/05/18/portraying-people-of-color-in-childrensya-fantasy-are-we-anywhere-near-there-yet/
- There are a ton useful links
at the beginning of this post - head down the rabbit hole and be sure to
look at the comments too: http://writeworld.org/post/35452234551/gee-i-dont-know-how-to-research-writing
- Another site with tons of
useful links, focused on YA: http://www.yahighway.com/2008/01/diversity-in-ya.html
- Good post that touches on the
difficulties of writing people of color when you are white (see point
2."white writers, people will go IN on you"). Another one with
good comments> http://www.yahighway.com/2011/02/writing-race-in-ya-guest-post-by-nicola.html
Awards:
Tomás Rivera Book Award http://riverabookaward.org/
Américas Book Award http://www.claspprograms.org/americasaward
Coretta Scott King Book Award http://www.ala.org/emiert/cskbookawards
Asian Pacific ALA Awards http://www.apalaweb.org/awards/literature-awards/
Stonewall Book Awards http://www.ala.org/glbtrt/award
Native American Youth Services Award http://ailanet.org/activities/american-indian-youth-literature-award/
Book Lists:
- Children's books with casual
diversity: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2014/02/04/casual-diversity-and-the-childrens-book/
- Tejas Star Reading List (put
together by the Latino Texas Association of School Librarians
(TASL), the Children’s Round Table, Public Library Division (PLD), and the
Latino Caucus. http://www.txla.org/tejas-star
- http://www.slj.com/2014/05/diversity/culturally-diverse-books-selected-by-sljs-review-editors/
Diversity Initiatives:
- We Need Diverse Books: http://weneeddiversebooks.org/
- First Book Stories for
All: http://www.firstbook.org/first-book-story/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=297
- Multicultural Children's Book
Day: http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/
- Children's Book Council
Diversity Initiative: www.cbcdiversity.com
INTEREST
Did you know this? Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has provided 60, 000, 000 free books to almost 1 million kids in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK. Check out the program here.
The views expressed here are my own, and not necessarily those of the SCBWI.
