Diversity

"While some might see diverse books as limited, we have found the exact opposite is true when discovering each book’s marketing potential. We are open to trying different approaches, depending on what the book is about." Jason Low, Publisher, Lee & Low Books NOTE: SLJ Conversations is a sponsored supplement to SLJ's Extra Helping newsletter. This interview was commissioned by Lee & Low.

Our charts show the diversity of recent MLS grads vs. the general population.

One of the publishing industry’s biggest events is in hot water with readers and writers alike as the company has been taken to task for assembling a list of guests at the consumer-centric May 31st BookCon event that consists of 30 white writers. The lack of diversity drew fire on social media, where readers, writers, and book critics have weighed in on the pallid lineup as a symptom of larger problems the publishing industry has in addressing diversity.

New girl-friendly technology initiatives are challenging tech's boys-only culture.

Nancy Larrick’s landmark 1965 study on race and children’s books was supposed to have been a wake-up call. Not much has changed.

In a world where misinformation about Muslim Americans takes place daily, we have a chance to build understanding among children through our library collections.

The book community reflects on the issues, successes, and trends in addressing diversity in books for children and YA.

Playing upon and expanding Rudine Sims Bishop’s framework for understanding multicultural literature for children, the SLJ Reviews Editors select their favorite recent titles.

Monica Brown, author of the "Marisol McDonald" series, writes about how as a person of mixed race lineage, she doesn't fit under a neat label. Her situation is shared by the growing multiracial population in the U.S., yet children's books do not reflect these changing demographics.