KidLitCon

Important stuff!

HAPPENING TONIGHT: Town Hall on How to Raise and Teach Anti-Racist Kids. Hosted by Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander. Streaming live at 7 p.m. EST on Facebook Live Literacy Association and Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89619854060


(With ASL interpreters. Will be recorded.)

Please join us for a Town Hall Meeting on creating anti-racist classrooms and homes...THURSDAY at 7:00 pm EST. (This will be recorded for later viewing on Facebook and YouTube).

Event page: https://facebook.com/events/s/how-to-raise-and-teach-anti-ra/261454078273904/?ti=icl

Panelists include educators Cornelius Minor, author of “We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be;” Tiffany M. Jewell, author of “This Book is Anti-Racist;” Dr. Pam Allyn, global literacy expert and coauthor (with Dr. Ernest Morrell) of “Every Child a Super Reader;” and Dr. Noni Thomas López, head of school at The Gordon School in Providence, RI, in addition to Karyn Parsons, author and founder of Sweet Blackberry, a nonprofit with a mission “to bring little known stories of African American achievement to children everywhere.”

I'm really looking forward to participating in this! Who else is adding these books to their TBR?

Generations Book Club: Black Music Month - The Brown Bookshelf Today kicks off Black Music Month. In our first list for Generations Book Club, we include books that salute our Black National Anthem, explore a middle grader finding his voice and purpose, show an 18-year-old violinist navigating complicated choices about life and love and offer wisdom and experie...

This is the last of our would-have-been sessions – a session that Pam has been running at every KidLitCon for several years now. Please feel free to share your favorite relevant books in the comments so we can take this conversation online! Here's the original description!

What are the issues that kids and teens face today and what are the books that represent these issues in literature? Turning to books in a time of crisis helps the reader process their situation. Join Hawanya Urquhart of Project Lit 313 and Pam Margolis, the Unconventional Librarian, for a discussion on tough topics in YA and Middle Grade Lit and leave with a list of crowdsourced book titles.

Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate — ProPublica No, the coronavirus is not an “equalizer.” Black people are being infected and dying at higher rates. Here’s what Milwaukee is doing about it — and why governments need to start releasing data on the race of COVID-19 patients.

KidLitCon author Heather Shumaker has videos posted for all of you homeschooling! It’s a mix of writing lesson, author experience, and bad jokes. The second one was posted today, but linking to the first episode here.

Fiction Friday Episode 1 Opening Pages Author chat for kids ages ~ 6-13 stuck at home during closed schools and for young writers and adults of all ages interested in fiction and how authors write...