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Three YA authors tell SLJ about their favorite childhood books and take a deep dive into the main characters in their debut novels.

The children's publishing world is coming together to raise money to fight anti-Asian racism, NCTE is accepting applications for the Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award, Amazon and Code.org team up to create equity-minded AP computer science course, and more in this edition of News Bites.

The author of The Project discusses false assumptions about cult members, the truths of surviving trauma, and how this “crossover” book really is YA.

In the summer of 2020, a time of tragedy and activism throughout the country, Black teens were still falling in love and discovering their relationships to the world...and Renée Watson was working on a book about radical self-love and a Black girl saving herself. Here she writes about finding joy amid pain and how love can be a personal revolution.

This month’s debut authors share what it has been like to get their first YA book published in the midst of a pandemic. Crystal Maldonado, Louisa Onomé, Marti Leimbach, and Bethany Mangle also discuss some of the research and self-reflection that went into writing their stories, and the importance of staying true to yourself.

Inspired by the death of Trayvon Martin, One of the Good Ones tells the story of a young activist whose death in police custody makes national news. To honor her death, the activist’s two sisters go on a road trip following the Green Book guide for Black travelers.

We speak to Jim Ottaviani on the process of turning Edward O. Wilson's prose autobiography Naturalist into the comic book Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation.

The post Writer Jim Ottaviani on adapting Edward O. Wilson’s Naturalist | Interview appeared first on Good Comics for Kids.

Here is a list of the 2021 Youth Media Awards winners announced during the virtual ceremony at the ALA Midwinter conference.

Illustrator Michaela Goade became the first BIPOC woman and first Indigenous illustrator to win the Caldecott medal when the 2021 Youth Media Awards were announced. Goade was one of many women creators recognized as women swept the Caldecott and Newbery medals.