Compiled by Gayleen Rabakukk
Award-winning
Author Paul Goble, Dead at 83 (Rapid City Journal, Jan. 5, 2017).
Paul Goble’s work – writing, illustrating, or both – were included in more than 40 books.
In 1979, he won the Caldecott Medal for The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (Simon & Schuster,
Happy Holidays!
That’s my R2D2 Christmas tree.
I love R2. I love Christmas trees.
Together, they equal out-of-this-world holiday awesomeness!
I’m off on winter hiatus, and when Cynsations returns in early 2017, intern Gayleen Rabakukk will be taking the helm for a while.
I Wasn’t Dreaming of a White Christmas: Representation in YA Holiday Books by Tirzah Price. Peek: “…this year I noticed something that does bother me: The authors of my favorites are predominantly white. In fact, the authors of most of the available YA holiday reads are white.”
Have you ever wondered why the spacecraft that carried the first U.S. astronaut into space in 1961 was named the Freedom 7? Was George Lucas already planning six prequels, or what?
When my daughter Amy turned 21 years old in July 2014, she was doing summer research in astrophysics at Baylor University.
By Cyndy Etler
I’m not a fangirl. I don’t know celebrity names. I don’t ask the hairdresser to make me look Kardashian. Also I don’t diet, buy $30 lip gloss, or wear Lululemon to the organic grocery store.
I read; I write. That’s what I do; that’s what I think about. Reading and writing.
Continue Reading Guest Post: Cyndy Etler on Joining the Sorority »
David A. Robertson is the first-time children’s author of When We Were Alone, illustrated by Julie Flett (Portage & Main Press, Jan. 6, 2017)(available for pre-order). From the promotional copy:
When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden,
Continue Reading New Voice: David A. Robertson on When We Were Alone »
Illustrators bear witness.
Nothing could be more important.
One hundred years from now, when someone wants to know what it was like to be a seven-year-old girl in New York City on her birthday – or what it was like to be a Mexican-American child growing up in Texas – they won’t go to a reference book and look it up.
Where Do We Go From Here? from The Brown Bookshelf. Peek: “We may sign on to petitions and open declarations, forward emails, RT, and ‘like’, and these can all be good and powerful things. But we believe that it’s important to reflect on how we will hold ourselves accountable,
By A.R. Capetta
A.R. Capetta writing
While the goal of this blog series is to celebrate LGBTQ YA, there’s so much more room for growth.
It might seem like LGBTQ YA books are hitting new heights, when in reality they’re only beginning to find their audience.
In the words of Alex London,
By A.R.Capetta
One of the standout differences in the LGBTQ offerings in 2016, as opposed to previous years, is a boost in genre fiction.
While I love reading LGBTQ books of all kinds, in my truest and nerdiest heart, I’m a lifelong reader and devoted writer of genre fiction.
Stories with marginalized main characters tend to take a particular route through the publishing world–starting with “issue” books,
