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28/1/14 12:38Horn Book on the ALA Youth Media Award Winners
Debbie Reese: "The American Indian Library Association's book awards are not included on the ALA page."
From comments: "Is it time for the annual conversation about race/inclusion and these awards? It seems, somehow, to get *more* striking each year: the movement through the Coretta Scott King Awards, and the Pura Belpre, and the Stonewall Book Awards– all honoring some of the year’s most distinguished titles… and then we arrive at the “most prestigious” awards and we are back to the white, straight world."
Last year was a good year -- the Printz books had gay characters and Latino characters and Haitian characters and characters with Asperger's Syndrome. (And they were really good books, for the most part, whatever quibbles I have with the winner, In Darkness. This year, there seems to be a lot less diversity. (And another year without any nonfiction or poetry!)
Debbie Reese: "The American Indian Library Association's book awards are not included on the ALA page."
From comments: "Is it time for the annual conversation about race/inclusion and these awards? It seems, somehow, to get *more* striking each year: the movement through the Coretta Scott King Awards, and the Pura Belpre, and the Stonewall Book Awards– all honoring some of the year’s most distinguished titles… and then we arrive at the “most prestigious” awards and we are back to the white, straight world."
Last year was a good year -- the Printz books had gay characters and Latino characters and Haitian characters and characters with Asperger's Syndrome. (And they were really good books, for the most part, whatever quibbles I have with the winner, In Darkness. This year, there seems to be a lot less diversity. (And another year without any nonfiction or poetry!)