Each year leading up to the announcement of the Newbery and Caldecott awards, there are discussions of eligible books and attempts to p...

In an October 28 article titled “Yes, But… One Librarian’s Thoughts About Doing It Right” in OLA Quarterly (a special issue devoted to Equit...

Andrew Smith’s  Exile from Eden , the sequel to his award-winning  Grasshopper Jungle , had its book birthday last week (September 24, 201...

We recently received a question: Why are so many picture books (often biographies) written by White authors and then illustrated by a BIPOC ...

It’s almost summer, which means people are starting to plan or make goals for their next few months of reading. If you’re looking for recom...

“Cancel culture,” “Attack,” “Toxic,” “YA Twitter mob,” “McCarthyism,” “Apartheid,” “Online lynch mob,” “New-Age censorship,” “Orwellian,” ...

Today, members of the children’s literature community ask for action and change from the curators of an exhibit currently housed at the U...