“Mosaic: Our Characters in the World”: A workshop for writers of children’s and young adult books.
Maria Padian and I presented this workshop at the New England SCBWI conference in May. I’ll add resources on this topic regularly here on my site. Here are the first two handouts.
Mosaic – Our Characters in the World~ Description, Resources, Links on Diversity in Children’s Books
Mosaic-Our Characters in the world WRITING PROMPTS
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Ghiso, Maria Paula and Gerald Campano. “Ideologies of Language and Identity in U.S. Children’s Literature.” pp. 47-55. Bookbird, a Journal of International Children’s Literature. 51.3(2013).
Diversity is Not Enough, Race, Power, Publishing by Daniel Jose Older on Buzzfeed