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Jacksonville (FL) Public Library’s Collaborations Are a Win-Win for Students, Library, and Community
Humor can be a powerful tool when it comes to encouraging children to read. Read on to learn about Jacksonville (FL) Public Library's outreach activities that are putting smiles on a lot of faces.
Our charts show the diversity of recent MLS grads vs. the general population.
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.
While National Poetry Month may be officially over, interest in great poems well delivered, never wanes. In this column we look at three very different digital anthologies that include verse. To quote the editors of one collection, we have poets “ancient and modern, fusty and frisky, famous and forgotten,” and to that we might add, a few rising stars.
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.
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