TLA presentation 2018

1. HOT OFF THE PRESS
BEST NEW BOOKS FOR MGs/YAs,
2018

2. Teri Lesesne
(rhymes with insane)
• @professornana
• Professornana.livejournal.com
• doctorL@shsu.edu
• www.slideshare.net/professornana

3. Karin Perry
• @kperry
• http://karinsletteringanddoodles.tumlbr.com
• http://karinlibrariansketchnotes.tumblr.com
• kperry@shsu.edu

4. bit.ly/pppd2016

6. A quick backward glance

7. We picked these award winners in 2017:
America Street
Murderer’s Ape
The Hate U Give
Piecing Me Together
We Are Okay
Lucky Broken Girl

8. Emphasis on Diversity

9. OUR DEFINITION OF DIVERSITY #wndb
We recognize all diverse experiences, including
(but not limited to) LGBTQIA, Native, people of
color, gender diversity, people with disabilities*,
and ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities.
www.weneeddiversebooks.org

10. *We subscribe to a broad definition of disability, which includes
but is not limited to physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual, or
developmental disabilities, chronic conditions, and mental
illnesses (this may also include addiction). Furthermore, we
subscribe to a social model of disability, which presents
disability as created by barriers in the social environment, due
to lack of equal access, stereotyping, and other forms of
marginalization.
weneeddiversebooks.org

11. why?

12. BOING BOING
78.2% of teachers are white

13. And too many
books do not
show diversity
The All White World of
Children’s Books by Nancy
Larrick, 1970
http://www.longwood.edu/st
aff/miskecjm/384larrick.pdf

16. Kids Need
Rudine Sims Bishop
http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/LA/0852-
nov07/LA0852Profiles.pdf

17. 2018?

22. “This morning I awoke to
a dead girl standing
beside my bed, peeling
strips of skin from her
arms.”

25. July 2018

27. May 2018

31. August 2018