> Some on the ALSC listserv are complaining that a new ALA poster lacks ethnic diversity. (If you squint you can see two kids of color in the background.) But the poster is based on Beverly Cleary’s major characters (white people all, yes?) as seen in their latest editions, illustrated by Tracy Dockray. As black-and-white [...]
>The new look . . .
January 13, 2010 By 19 Comments
>Still to Come, My Pretties
December 1, 2009 By 8 Comments
>Beavering away here at our Fanfare list, which will be announced FIRST in Notes from the Horn Book, so sign up, you slugs. And we–that is, Lolly, mostly–are finishing up the January issue in glamtaborous full color and new features. Lolly has really knocked herself out working on it and the editorial staff has given [...]
>A few things
April 14, 2009 By 3 Comments
>Color My World
November 26, 2008 By 5 Comments
>Via Andrew Sullivan, an exhibition of photographs of children by Jeongmee Yoon displaying their obsessions with gendered colors. I see pink-bedecked and -accessorized little girls all the time but are there enough boys who feel similarly about blue to make the comparison meaningful? When I was a lad, the only rule was not-pink.
>"The Harry Potter Look"
April 13, 2008 By 6 Comments
>Its they’re misson!
March 29, 2008 By 6 Comments
>Code Pink
March 24, 2008 By 10 Comments
>Scanning the multitudes of new books throughout the office, I am struck–again–by the endurance of pink covers on light teen girl fiction. I know this is nothing new; what interests me is the fact that I wrote about this four years ago, and I’m surprised it still works–not the chicklit formula, which is eternal, but [...]
>Someone must have read the book in the meantime
December 12, 2007 By 12 Comments
>the ARC: the finished book: Deirdre Baker has some pertinent thoughts (from “Musings on Diverse Worlds,” Horn Book Magazine, January/February 2007): In some cases, where the politics of inclusivity is not in the foreground of the story, the racial attributes of nonwhite heroes are rendered virtually invisible. Both Ged of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea [...]
