Fatima Shaik: ”Books Like These Are Meant to be Troubling”
On Tuesday, December 6, the Accomack County Public Schools Board, in eastern Virginia, voted to return the books To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn to county classrooms. The… More
PEN America report analyzes challenges for diverse youth literature
PEN America's report on challenges facing diversity in children's and young adult literature is published in time for Banned Books Week. More
Remembering Vera B. Williams: A Tribute
Friends, writers, and illustrators pay tribute to the longtime former chair of PEN's CYAB Committee and much beloved children's book writer and illustrator. More
Ban, Restriction, Whatever!: On Ted Dawe’s Into the River
Long time children's and young adult librarian, judge for children's book awards, Trustee of the Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand, and literary agent Frances Plumpton discusses… More
The Common Core in Action
Writer, blogger, and middle school teacher K. Imani Tennyson kicks off the school year with how a creative curriculum can be incorporated into the Common Core teaching standards for… More
Katrina: 10 Years Later
In this second of two blog posts commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Fatima Shaik reflects on the work of PEN's Children's and Young Adult Book Committee in… More
“Writing Is Spirit”: A Synchronous Meeting with Calligrapher Ömer Basdag
CYAB Committee member Meghan Nuttall Sayres on the Turkish calligrapher Ömer Basdag and the ancient art of handwriting. More
Diversity Within Diversity: 2015 ALA Youth Media Awards “Change the Landscape” of Recognition in Children’s Literature
The flurry of each announcement at the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards in February quickly snowballed into perhaps the most diverse awards list in the history of children’s… More
Your Students … Or Your Customers?
“In other words, know your customer,” she says. Customer. This word is the last straw. I can't keep my hand down any longer. As if it’s not enough that… More
The Other America: Black Lives and the Police State
With the deaths of so many black Americans at the hands of both police officers and white vigilantes who have escaped punishment, we are coming to see that two… More
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Tributes are pouring in after prominent Tunisian human rights activist and blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, one of the heroes of the 2011 revolution, died in the early hours of Monday from a chronic illness.
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Authorities in the eastern province of Shandong have detained a Hui Muslim poet and author after he tweeted about the incarceration, surveillance, and persecution of Chinese Muslims, both in Xinjiang and across China, @RadioFreeAsia has learned.
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