Award Video | Winners | Honorable Mentions| Commended Titles The Américas Award for children’s books, sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP), has announced the 2023 winners. As is explained on their website, the award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for […]

To prepare parents to discuss racism in the United States with their children, internationally renowned anti-racist educator Dr. Enid Lee recommends the board book Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race by Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Isabel Roxas. Lee, a Teaching for Change advisor, shares how she introduces the book to parents in the […]

Teaching for Change associate director, Keesha Ceran, and Social Justice Books interns, Becca Townley and Lucy Sieczka, participated in the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s Inaugural #ReadBlackBooks Conference from June 26 – June 30. The #ReadBlackBooks initiative is an effort to push back against the national rise in the banning of books by Black authors in pre-K-12 schools […]

The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) updated their annual Diversity Statistics to include data on the 3,450 books for children and teens received by the CCBC that were published in 2022. This year’s statistics show the continuation of some positive trends. After a long period of relative stagnancy, the number of children’s books the CCBC […]