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The @diversebooks team asks the room to imagine a world where books have representation of all people. 
There is a need to have positive messaging about LGBTQIA+ experience and make ability/disability visible. Rep is better but we have a long way to go. #wndb #weneeddiversebooks
“If you don’t know CCBC, get to know them. They are best source of data. ccbc.education.wisc.edu #wndb #weneeddiversebooks
They do a lot of outreach to schools, about 14,000 titles given away. diversebooks.org/our-programs/w…
Our story lets you search vetted books: ourstory.diversebooks.org/pro/1.05/
Power of Story, pdf catalog coded for diversity: kids.scholastic.com/content/dam/sc…
The submissions to the Walter is growing! First year they had 50 submissions and last year over 200 submitted and mentoring publishing professionals. #wenneeddiversebooks #wndb
Nicole used the categories from Diverse Book Finder: diversebookfinder.org
Concept books from Nicole, including An ABC of Equality by Chana Gibelke Ewing. There is a range of rep present in the book.
The Girl and the Wolf #ownvoices Native American
Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight. Woke Baby and Let the Children March
Strong Identity books: The Proudest Blue, When Aidan became a Brother.
Identity/any child books: You Hold Me Up (themes of reconciliation), Drawn Together (cross-generational bonds)
Hard to find Early Chapter books ( all series titles). Clubhouse mysteries, Stella Diaz has Something to say.
Promotion, placement, based on the content not the diversity helps move the books. Don’t just promote during x’ history month...
Identifying comp titles can help overcome gatekeeper objections. Intentionality in what you are offering in book clubs.
Using shelftakers created by students.
Middle Grade and YA book time! With Caroline. She clung to characters like Claudia Kishi even though they didn’t actually have that much in common. She wanted a bookshelf that reflect reality. #weneeddiversebooks
One of her projects was WNDB’s IF ... read this .. . why.
The last last day of summer. Lamar Giles’s Middle Grade debut. Edgar nominated author.
If you liked Brown Girl Dreaming...try They Call Me Güero. Identity/race written in verse. Talks about colorism in diverse community.
If you liked Wings of Fire...reAd: Anya and the Dragon. (Jewish heroine)
If you live GBBO, read Pie in the Sky ( prose/graphic novel). About Asian immigrants to Australia. Indonesian immigrant author.
If you liked: Judy Blume’s Are you There God... try The Moon Within.
For fans of Stranger Things...try The Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega.
Two more recs: The Mighty of Sunny St James. (Identity/new beginnings) & Indian No More (WNDB mentee).
YA books: “diverse anthologies” It’s A Whole Spiel, His Hideous Heart, The (other) F Word,
If you like Rita Sepeys try Stacy La’s The Downstairs Girl. (Chinese character is reconstruction-era Atlanta)
If you liked The Duff, read The Silence Between Us ( deaf heroine). Has sweet romance.
If You liked It’s Kind of A Funny Story read The Astonishing Color if After. ( mental health issues) cw:suicide death of parent.
Mental Health Awareness: Darius The Great is not Ojay, The Memory of Light, and Don’t call me crazy.
If you liked: Greg’s Anatomy Read: Symptoms of Heart Break. ( also comped to Doogie Howser)
Video game fans/online committees: if you liked Ready Player One try Slay by Britney Morris.
Books for Teen Writers: Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett, I am the Night Sky & Voces sin Fronteras.
High school Seniors can enter WNDB/PRH Creative Writing Awards. Next cycle opens in January. diversebooks.org/our-programs/p…
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