SummaryThis month's We Need Diverse MG post features not one, but two international authors whose books are landing in US and Canadian booksellers this November! Welcome Raidah Shah Idil and Yxavel Ma...

Receiving an offer of representation from an agent is so exciting…especially after all your hard work. Celebrate!

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Middle grade readers span a wide range of ages and grade levels. Even individual readers have diverse interests that you can use to interest them in a book.

Friends, I started writing these Diversity in MG Lit posts six years ago in the fall of 2018. Today marks my 50th post. I wanted to reflect on how far we’ve come and where we might best spend our energy in support of diverse books in the future. The Cooperative Children’s Book Center has been carefully and exhaustively compiling data on the racial and cultural composition of children’s book characters and children’s book authors and illustrators. Their data shows broad and consistent advances in the number of children’s books both by diverse creators and about diverse characters. The improvement has been particularly strong for Black, Asian, and Latine creators and characters. Each of those categories include more than 10% of the children’s books studied. Indigenous American, Pacific Islander and Arab titles saw a doubling over the last six years though the overall numbers are lower than 10%. Equally encouraging is the recognition diverse titles receive.  Taking the window of 2018-2024,

October offers reasons to find some great books and celebrate reading.