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Celebrating Librarianship
I do hate that I’ll miss the panel discussing the latest edition of The Handbook of Black Librarianship. I have a chapter in it that contextualizes the contributions of Black librarians in the field of youth literature.
2024 Pearls
Here are some of the BIPOC Pearls who have contributed to youth literature and have gone on to the ancestors.
INTERVIEW: Cheryl Willis Hudson
Music is an especially emotive form of storytelling. It’s truly a universal language and I hope readers will take away an appreciation for spirituals as a valued basis for so much of the music produced in the USA.
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Another Way Forward
As you keep faith as readers, I’ll keep faith as a writer to continue writing and showing the places where our stories interconnect. Not everyone is on the same page, but we all HAVE a page. Never forget: We are who makes the story worth reading.
Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez: Latine Heritage Month in the Library
The library didn’t give my mother, my sister, and me our strength. But the library was a place where we could learn to unlock our power ourselves.
Lucia Gonzalez: Latine Heritage Month in the Library
Taking those books home allowed me to escape the entrapment of those silent days when I could not communicate in English. I will never forget the feeling of joy upon receiving that first library card!
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Cindy L. Rodriguez: Latine Heritage Month in the Library
I remember going to the local library, getting my first library card, and piling the car with books. I couldn’t believe it—I could take them home? We didn’t have to pay for them? And I could bring them back and then get more? It was the greatest thing ever!
David Bowles: Latine Heritage Month in the Library
It was Mrs. Márquez and Sister Rose—the librarians at PSJA High School—who answered our complaint about the lack of Mexican American authors on the shelves with a suggestion: “Perhaps you could author titles that would fill those gaps, boys.”
Interview: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
What if you told someone you wish they were dead...and then they died?" the thinking of writing about grief was there -- I was processing how to process.
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