Posts by Shelley Diaz Vale
Our 2025 Best Books list is live!!! #sljbestbooks
So proud to have been on this committee!
Every year on January 27th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the 1945 liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. This year marks the 80th anniversary. Share these graphic novels with young readers leading up to the day and all year long.
The impetus for representation has shifted, but it remains as real as ever, writes Edi Campbell. The work includes recognizing and promoting new voices in the field, so she's started this list featuring BIPOC debut authors. Suggestions welcome.
Celebrating history shapers like John Lewis and Mae Jemison and lesser-known individuals with comparable impact, such as playwrights August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry, and engineer Raye Montague, these 28 titles share the lives, struggles, and triumphs of notable Black Americans.
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SLJ's Shelley Diaz and Kid Lit Collective friends.
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Sydney Taylor Book Award winners:
Picture Book: An Etrog from Across the Sea
MG: The Girl Who Sang
YA: Night Owls
Schneider Family Book Award winners
Younger Children’s: A Little Like Magic
MG: Popcorn
YA: Chronically Dolores
Carolyn L. Garnes wins the Coretta Scott King -- Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Margaret A. Edwards Award goes to Tiffany D. Jackson
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Morris Award winner: Not Like Other Girls
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Printz Award winner is Brownstone.
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The Sibert Medal goes to Life After Whale.
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