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Stories Save Lives and Walter Awards recap
2025 Walter Award winners, honorees, and committee members. L to R: Jolynn Asato, Yasmeen Shorish, Aleksandra (Sasha) Dowdy, Shoshana Flax, Sherri Winston, Eden Royce, June Hur, Ekua Holmes, Renée Watson, Dr. Shanetia P. Clark (vice chair), Jenna Wolf, Jenell Igeleke Penn (chair). Photo courtesy of Dr. Shanetia P. Clark. I...
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Review of On the Block: Stories of Home
On the Block: Stories of Home edited by Ellen OhIntermediate, Middle School Crown 208 pp.10/24 9780593648445 $17.99Library ed. 9780593648452 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593648469 $10.99Composed of twelve stories written by a dozen different authors, this We Need Diverse Books anthology is organized by apartment number in a New York City building. Each...
Review of You Are Here: Connecting Flights
You Are Here: Connecting Flights edited by Ellen Oh Intermediate, Middle School Allida/HarperCollins 272 pp. 3/23 9780063239081 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063239104 $11.99 In this collection of linked short stories, a nasty storm strikes Chicago’s (fictional) Gateway International Airport, delaying flights and suspending travel plans. Twelve-year-old Paul and his family, who...
From the Editor - June 2023
In case you missed it, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were announced yesterday; yes, we secretly knew, when we asked Scholastic if we could do a Five Questions interview with Jack Wong for this issue of Notes, that he had won the Picture Book Award for When You Can Swim,...
We Need Diverse Books: A Decade in Action
It all started on Twitter. In April 2014, the fan convention BookCon announced a lineup of authors for a “blockbuster” panel — a panel that consisted of four white men. Frustrated by this news, authors Ellen Oh and Malinda Lo discussed the lack of representation across the children’s publishing industry...
Field Notes: Teaching Flying Lessons & Other Stories
In a foreword to the paperback edition of the groundbreaking anthology Flying Lessons & Other Stories — edited by Ellen Oh, first published in 2017 in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, and dedicated to the late Walter Dean Myers — Christopher Myers writes, “Imagine…this book you are holding, Flying...
"A Conversation with Ellen Oh" event at Simmons University
Photo: Elissa Gershowitz.Earlier this week, Cindy and I attended a talk at Simmons University by author and anthologist Ellen Oh, cofounder, president, and CEO of We Need Diverse Books. She started her presentation with some of the reasons why We Need Diverse Books, both broad (statistics about POC representation and...
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