You Should Meet Mae Jemison
Blast off into space and get to know Mae Jemison—the first African-American woman to ever go to space—with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read early reader, part of a new […]
Blast off into space and get to know Mae Jemison—the first African-American woman to ever go to space—with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read early reader, part of a new […]
From the foreword to Moonshot, by editor Hope Nicholson: MOONSHOT is a project that is a thrilling new collection that showcases diverse aboriginal representation in comic books. This is an anthology […]
Writing While Indigenous/Writing While Chinese Intersectionality in Oz YA Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal writer, illustrator and law academic who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region […]
The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson; art by Kelly Mellings. Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication date: spring 2015 Why you need to read this graphic novel: […]
Cities around the world are marking June as the first-ever Pride Month, and to celebrate, we’re taking a look at a few young adult titles that feature bisexual protagonists or strong secondary characters. These […]
Five Finds is a sporadic feature on my blog in which I share five books that match a given theme/subject/topic. Topics so far have included Fiction for Budding Cupcake […]
Climbing the Date Palm is the second book in the Mangoverse series (The Second Mango is the first – you might want to start there) buuuut this one fits better with […]
I was going to discuss the immigrant experience from a personal perspective being an immigrant myself. I was going to talk about the importance of books when you are feeling […]
Looking for an immigration story? Try Laurence Yep. More recently known for the charming A Dragon’s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans, co-written with his wife, Joanne Ryder, Laurence […]
A couple of months earlier (two or three?) I posted a list of titles that, in my opinion, deal with diverse characters and/or are written by POC authors. Here are […]