![]() We believe that small acts like sharing picture books with Asian characters as protagonists can add up to help resist the racist exotification at the heart of much of the racism Asian Americans face. Such a shift feels particularly important now, as political leaders and conspiracy theories blame the pandemic on China and fan anti-Asian sentiment in the United States by depicting Asian people as inherently un-American. Lin has said that these two picture books signal a shift from a focus in her work on her Asian heritage to one of claiming her American identity. It shouldn’t be notable that the protagonist is an Asian boy, but unfortunately, it is, with the CCBC reporting only 7% of children’s books published in 2018 featuring API/APA characters (a statistic that says nothing about the quality of the representation in those titles). This companion title to Lin’s Caldecott Honor book, A Big Mooncake for Little Star offers a whimsical, original porquoi tale to explain the source of snowstorms. Find her on Instagram and Twitter Olugbemisola gets caught reading Fruit of the Lemon, by Andrea Levy. Olugbemisola lives with her family in New York City. Her forthcoming works include It Doesn’t Take A Genius (Six Foot Press), Operation Sisterhood (Crown/Random House), Mae Makes A Way (Crown/Random House), and Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future (FSG/Macmillan). Olugbemisola is also the editor of The Hero Next Door, a middle-grade anthology from We Need Diverse Books and has contributed to collections including We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (Just Us Books/Crown), and Imagine It Better: Visions of What School Might Be. Her nonfiction work includes: Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow (Discovery/Macmillan), and the picture book biography Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins (Quarto Kids). She co-authored the NAACP Image Award-nominated Two Naomis, and its sequel, Naomis Too (Balzer and Bray/HarperCollins). Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the author of 8th Grade Superzero (Scholastic), a Notable Book for a Global Society and Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and the adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for Sesame Workshop’s Ghostwriter. ![]() Kelly gets caught reading Escape From…Hurricane Katrina, by Judy Allen Dodson. A native of Pittsburgh, Kelly lives in North Carolina. ![]() She’s honored to be a contributor to anthologies including We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, and Been There, Done That. 2019 brings two more books in her series – Jada Jones: Sleepover Scientist and Jada Jones: Dancing Queen, and two picture books, Down Home with Daddy and Sing a Song. Her Jada Jones chapter book series debuted in 2017 with Rock Star and Class Act. Her books include CCBC Choices-honored picture book, One Million Men and Me, Ellen’s Broom, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor book, Junior Library Guild and Bank Street Best selection, Tea Cakes for Tosh, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, Hope’s Gift, an IRA/CBC Children’s Choices selection and One More Dino on the Floor, a Scholastic Reading Club pick. Kelly Starling Lyons is a children’s book author whose mission is to transform moments, memories, and history into stories of discovery. ![]() Tameka gets caught reading Unspeakable, by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper. ![]() Her forthcoming titles are Twelve Dinging Doorbells and Shirley Chisholm: Not Done Yet, scheduled for release in 2022 with Kokila and Millbrook Press respectively, and THAT FLAG, to be published by HarperCollins in early 2023. It was named a Parents Latina Magazine’s Best Latino Children’s Book of 2020, one of NPR’s 100 Favorite Books for Young Readers, and just won Every Child a Reader’s Anna Dewdney Read Together Award. Tameka’s most recently published book is Brown Baby Lullaby. Her work is also featured in the much-heralded anthology, We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (Crown BFYR/Just Us Books). Her titles include Around Our Way On Neighbors’ Day (Abrams BFYR) and My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood (Viking Children’s/PRH), which was lauded as a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, a Bank Street College Best Book, a CCBC Choices Best Book, an Abilene ISD Mockingbird Award nominee, a SIBA Book Award nominee, a Star of the North Picture Book Award nominee, and one of NYPL’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing. Tameka Fryer Brown is an award-winning picture book author. ![]()
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