Nikki Giovanni Talks About Libraries Supporting Readers on Earth and Mars Nikki Giovanni champions libraries—on Earth and Mars—at Columbia’s Books in Bloom festival. Read More
The Judy Blume Book That Changed Everything SHE LIT: The Judy Blume Book That Changed Everything ♾️ How a Judy Blume classic revolutionized the middle grade genre. Read More
Editing Authors Amid Banned Books SHE LIT: Editing Authors Amid Banned Books 📖 An author shares how a publisher asked her to edit “racism” out Read More
‘Shakti Girls’ Author Shetal Shah Uses Poetry to Tell the Stories of Indian Innovators Shetal Shah’s “Shakti Girls” celebrates Indian diaspora heroines with poetic bios to uplift young readers. Read More
Black Characters in Children’s Literature Are Disappearing as Schools Limit History Courses *|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Searching for books by Black female authors this month? Take a look at authors we’ve featured Black characters Read More
Banning Books Could Lead to Defunding Libraries SHE LIT: Banning Books Could Lead to Defunding Libraries 📖 A rural Michigan town defunds its library over books with Read More
‘Nope’ Star Keke Palmer Wrote Books to Share Her Talent <![CDATA[SHE LIT: ‘Nope’ Star Wrote Books to Share Her Talent 💁🏾♀️]]> SHE LIT: ‘Nope’ Star Wrote Books to Share Her Read More
Karyn Parsons’ Sweet Blackberry Promotes Lesser-Known Stories for Black History Month Actress and author Karyn Parsons is sharing the stories this February her literary nonprofit Sweet Blackberry produces to educate kids Read More
‘Adventures of Qai Qai’ by Serena Williams Has the Power to Elevate Black Doll Sales Tennis superstar Serena Williams recently announced that she is releasing a children’s book next year based on the adventures of Read More
We Need Diverse Books Stops Using #OwnVoices Term The nonprofit initiative to have more children’s books reflect all identities in the literary industry says it will no longer Read More
Author Natasha Diaz Wants Us to Know Black Jewish Stories Matter When Natasha Díaz discovered her debut novel was excluded from a Black Jewish book list, she went to Twitter to Read More
Ashli St. Armant Jazzes Up the Girl Detective Tale Inspired by the girl detective stories from her childhood, Ashli St. Armant recently released her debut audiobook “Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons” on Audible. Read More
Book Review: ‘Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons’ by Ashli St. Armant “Viva Durant and The Secret of the Silver Buttons” by Ashli St. Armant is an imaginative girl detective story that combines music and mystery. Read More
