Diversity

Learning to recognize and combat racism and other forms of injustice and move toward a more equitable world is a lifelong process—and one that must start as early as possible. Aimed at infants and toddlers through elementary school students, these titles introduce topics such as intersectionality and privilege, with explanations that are age-appropriate and honest.

Book about racism and antiracism and those by black creators are in high demand, for adults and children.

Just like for any other age group, it’s important that babies see people of color in their books. Use these 50 diverse titles to help build your board book collection.

In honor of Pride Month, these debut authors discuss their LGBTQIA+ themed YA books.

Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi, co-authors of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, kicked off SLJ's Day of Dialog. Here is the entire keynote conversation.

The winners of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are Saturday by Oge Mora, King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, and Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan.

Employees with disabilities and chronic illnesses have long fought for basic accommodations now granted to millions of workers from home. Here's what else is needed.

At times it can be almost business as usual for the publishing industry—and celebratory business at that. The 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Awards and Best Children’s Publishers of the Year were announced during the virtual Bologna Book Fair; the 2021 Carle Honors Honorees were named; and Candlewick and MIT Press are set to launch two new imprints.

Alex Gino's George is No. 1 on the list of most challenged books for the second year in a row, as LGBTQIA+ content is once again the top reason cited for challenges.