Federico Erebia: Encouraging Underrepresented Voices in Children’s Literature - PEN America Critical success like starred reviews, awards, and other commendations aren’t enough to combat censorship in all its forms.

Click below for my interview with PEN America.

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It was a fun interview, plus Jennifer is offering a 20% discount code for your favorite books on Bookelicious!

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The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Award MG/YA finalists!

ACROSS SO MANY SEAS
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THE COLOR OF SOUND
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The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Award PB finalists!

A KURTA TO REMEMBER
Gauri D. Pandya|Avandi Dwivedi

SNOW STEPS
Karen L. Kenny|Irina Avgustinovich

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The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Award Winners!

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THE MAID AND THE CROCODILE
Jordan Ifueko

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Honored to be among these great titles of commended books! Request Ladybug Launch & all of these wonderful titles from your #Library! #PADIBA #PADIBA2025 #ReadYourWord Thank you @federicoerebia.bsky.social

So excited to see Benny getting some love--and in such august company!--from the Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards! All of these books can be bought at a discounted rate from Bookshop dot Org!

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So honoured that Kicked Out has been commended in the 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards (PADIBA)!!

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PADIBA Awards 2025 - Read Your World PADIBA Awards 2025 The 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards Longlists and Commended Titles have been announced.  These high quality books with intersectional protagonists were chosen by...

Excited for 🌱 WILD GREENS, BEAUTIFUL GIRL 🌺 to be longlisted for this award, along with all these other creators. Congrats to all! readyourworld.org/awards/padib...

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Haunting Melody made it on the commended titles list for #PADIBA #PADIBA2025 #ReadYourWorld !!! 🥳🥳🥳

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✨Such an honor to see Lupita’s Brown Ballet Slippers on The 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards (PADIBA) PB/GN long list! Illustrations by Melissa Castillo. ❤️@beamingbooksmn.bsky.social
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Such an honor for 🌱 WILD GREENS, BEAUTIFUL GIRL 🌺 to be featured on this list! #PADIBA #PADIBA2025 #ReadYourWorld

PADIBA Awards 2025 - Read Your World PADIBA Awards 2025 The 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards Longlists and Commended Titles have been announced.  These high quality books with intersectional protagonists were chosen by...

You can find out more about all of the #PADIBA2025 selections on the #ReadYourWorld website: