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Inclusive Imprints: An Update
In the September/October 2018 Horn Book article “Devoted to Diversity: Publishers with a Purpose,” Shoshana Flax examined the landscape of publishing houses and imprints focusing on inclusive representation. That article recognized long-established publishers such as Just Us Books, Lee & Low Books, and Cinco Puntos Press and identified imprints, many...
Seeing Ourselves: Write to Preserve, Edit to Protect
Angeline Boulley as a high school senior. Photo courtesy of Angeline Boulley. The first time I read a story that featured a Native American protagonist, I was a high school senior. It was a significant experience for me. As an Ojibwe teen, I hadn’t realized my absence in books until...
Reflections on the Pura Belpré Award: An Interview with Sandra Ríos Balderrama
Sandra Ríos Balderrama and Oralia Garza de Cortés began working together in 1986 to create what would become the Pura Belpré Award. The award was established ten years later (with the help of Linda Perkins and Toni Bissessar) for writers and artists whose work “portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino...
Seeing Ourselves: Cherokee DNA Tree of Life: Our Syllabary
Illustration (c) 2023 by Jeff Edwards. The Cherokee language is what ultimately defines us uniquely as Cherokees. We are one of only a very small handful of Native American tribes who have a syllabic writing system. The Cherokee Syllabary was completed by Sequoyah in 1821. His Syllabary contains eighty-six individual...
Loving Langston & Learning from Literary History
Langston Hughes. Underwood Archives/Contributor (Getty Images). Looking back to an incident during my middle-school years, I realize I’ve had the sensibilities of a scholar for a very long time. A student submitted a Langston Hughes poem to the school literary magazine as his own; the faculty sponsor did not know...
Seeing Ourselves: The Mannequin of Charles Towne
Eden Royce at age six. Photo courtesy of Eden Royce. Every Saturday when I was a kid, my mother would take me to the mall. Mostly, it was her looking through racks without making a purchase and me fidgeting, desperate to be anywhere else. I found the stores boring, the...
Getting There: Taking a Trip Through Queer Kidlit
“What is your critical axe to grind?” That’s the question our professor, without much preamble, asked the two of us in our first children’s literature graduate seminar together. She explained that our “critical axe” was the thing (and we’re paraphrasing here) about youth literature that had us in a chokehold....
Seeing Ourselves: Our Stories Could Fly: The Future of Books for Black Children
I own a well-read copy of Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. It’s a classic in many households, as it should be. It’s not just the stories that I return to over and over again; it’s the magical illustrations by the dynamic duo Leo and Diane Dillon....
A Publisher's Perspective: Three Decades of Inclusive Publishing
In 1991, when Lee & Low Books was founded, the state of diverse books was bleak. Children of color who grew up in the 1990s (or earlier) rarely saw themselves reflected in the pages of a book. Society’s lack of inclusivity led children of color to bend over backward to...
Seeing Ourselves: QTBIPOC in Abundance
I’ve always said that my wish for diverse books in the future, especially for LGBTQIA+ books — and even more so for QTBIPOC books — is that there will be so many of them that people can walk into a bookstore looking for the most specific niche and still be...
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