Date: Wednesday, March 26 2014 Time: 8pm ET Topic: Middle Grade Fiction Use the #DiverseCanLit tag to follow along on Twitter (or TweetChat). After our great discussion on Book Fairs, Festivals and Conferences last week, we’re back to discussing books. This week we’ll cover middle grade (books targeting readers between ages 9 and 12). Below… Read Post
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March 13: #DiverseCanLit Picture Books
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014 Time: 8pm ET Topic: Picture Books Use the #DiverseCanLit tag to follow along on Twitter (or TweetChat). After a fantastic discussion about Canada Reads 2014, we can get back to our regularly scheduled programming. Tonight we’ll discuss picture books and presenting diversity to the youngest Canadians. Below are a few… Read Post
#DiverseCanLit TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
I often rely on anecdotal information when I speak about the lack of diversity in Canadian publishing. I’ll talk about the demographics of my publishing class, my difficulty finding diverse books on shelves, and compare the number of books about black children to the number of books about dinosaurs. However the work by Cooperative Children’s… Read Post
5 South Asian Writers
Milestone number two of my Heritage Reads challenge is complete! I read the work of five South Asian writers and was very pleased at the variety. At first I was worried that all the books would be about female infanticide. I’d read enough novels on the topic that I was beginning to think it was… Read Post