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[10] [11] The grant was established in 2014 and named after children’s book author Walter Dean Myers, an advocate of multicultural children’s books. [11] [10] In 2015, WNDB granted their first recipients (five writers and illustrators) $2,000 each. [11] In 2016, WNDB granted five more writers and illustrators $2,000 each. [12]
Eva Longoria touted the importance of books and diverse stories for children as she announced a partnership with Mott's to make books available in book deserts.
However, data from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that in 1994 there were only 90 children’s books published by and about Latino people as opposed to 371 by and 237 about Latinos in 2022. [13] Within the last few years, there has been a push for more inclusive books within ...
Muñoz Ryan has written over forty books for young people, including picture books, early readers, middle grade, and young adult novels. She has been the author recipient of the NEA 's Human and Civil Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for multicultural literature, and the Ludington Award for her body of work.
It was a runner-up (Honor Book) for both the American Library Association Newbery Medal, recognizing the year's best U.S. children's book, and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for children's fiction. It won an International Reading Association Children's Book Award and it made School Library Journal and The New York Times annual booklists.
The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976. It is domiciled in the United States and listed on the London Stock Exchange.. Quarto creates and sells illustrated books for adults and children, across 50 countries and in 40 languages, through a variety of traditional and non-traditional channels.
Booklist also included Freedom in Congo Square on its "Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth" and "Top 10 Multicultural Nonfiction for Youth" lists. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The following year, Bank Street College of Education named it as a book of "outstanding merit" for children ages five to nine. [ 12 ]
Whoever You Are is a 1997 children's picture book by Australian writer Mem Fox and illustrated by Leslie Staub. It was published by Harcourt, Inc. It was published by Harcourt, Inc. In this book, the narrator with four children goes around the world appreciating the differences and similarities in people.