Video: "Do You Write About Race?" | SLJ Day of Dialog 2014

by Kathy Ishizuka
May 31, 2014 | Filed in News & Features
Authors address the topic of the day in this 12-minute clip from the "Diversity in Middle Grade Fiction" panel at School Library Journal's Day of Dialog, held in New York on May 28, 2014.
Authors address the topic of the day in this 12-minute clip from the "Diversity in Middle Grade Fiction" panel at School Library Journal's Day of Dialog, held in New York on May 28, 2014. Authors Brenda Woods, Coe Booth, Kat Yeh, Kwame Alexander, and Raul Gonzalez comprised the panel, which was moderated by Allie Jane Bruce, children's librarian at the Bank Street College of Education.

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