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13/04/2020

Meena Jain interviews Simran Jeet Singh about his upcoming book, Fauja Singh Keeps Going: "I have young kids at home, and one thing I’ve learned as a father is that they’re a lot smarter than we often give them credit for. ... We have to trust that they will figure things out—and that even if they don’t, that’s okay too! I’ve learned to be comfortable with that ambiguity in my classrooms and now at home..."

https://thebullhornblog.org/2020/04/13/simran-jeet-singh-fauja-singh-keeps-going/

Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is an educator, writer, activist, and scholar who speaks regularly on diversity, inclusion and equity. Simran is currently based at Union Seminary, and he’s the host of Spirit…

02/04/2020

NEW: Looking back a few months to the days when people could gather... The 3rd Annual Social Justice Children's Book Fair in Oakland, CA. Click here for bright shining faces of young readers, vibrant community, activists, and bookmakers.

https://thebullhornblog.org/2020/03/29/3rd-annual-social-justice-childrens-book-holiday-fair-oakland-ca/

Nearly two weeks ago, a “shelter in place” order went into effect here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Days later, a shelter in place order went into effect for the State of California, and a number…

18/03/2020

NEW post- author Robert Alexander reviews Hermanito & Hermanita by Khalid White and Isela Garcia-White https://thebullhornblog.org/2020/03/17/hermanitohermanita-book-review/

10 years ago while studying at UC Davis I met Dr. Khalid White and his wife Isela Garcia White. I later learned that Khalid and I both worked in the South Bay Area as educators at community college…

20/11/2019

NEW: Kenneth Braswell of Fathers Incorporated on making kids books and who inspired him to write them. Just did an interview with Kenneth Braswell of Fathers Inc out in ATL! Peep https://thebullhornblog.org/2019/11/19/interview-w-kenneth-braswell/

I came across “Daddy There’s a Noise Outside” in 2017 while reading the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog and was immediately inspired by the story. After following Kenneth’s work I learn abou…

08/11/2019

Susan Tan: "Remember – we don’t just live in culture, it lives inside us. This means that sometimes, we have to confront that we’ve internalized certain messages from larger society. It’s so important to reflect and self-educate when these moments arise, and to consider how we as individuals can act within our communities to change old patterns and messages. And then – act!"

https://thebullhornblog.org/2019/11/07/interview-with-susan-tan/

I really enjoyed reading the Cilla Lee-Jenkins series! These books have so much heart and humor, and I loved following Cilla’s journey into questions about race, culture, family, and identity. At…

23/10/2019

Interview with Weshoyot Alvitre! https://thebullhornblog.org/2019/10/18/interview-with-weshoyot-alvitre-artistillustrator/

Weshoyot Alvitre is Tongva (Los Angeles Basin) and well established in the Indigenous art community as an Illustrator. She has contributed to numerous Eisner award-winning books, including the “Umb…

18/10/2019

Carole Lindstrom, author of The Water Protectors, and The Bull Horn's newest editorial board member!
https://thebullhornblog.org/2019/10/17/interview-with-carole-lindstrom/

  Hi Carole! Can you talk a bit about your journey in activism and children’s literature. Why did you decide to write children’s books? I’ve always loved to write and I always thought I would …

18/10/2019

Laura Gonzalez: "This is the power of children’s literature which focuses on real, societal issues. These stories are not only adult stories. They are the lived experience of countless children and their families. We often assume that by putting people in close proximity, understanding will naturally occur. "

https://thebullhornblog.org/2019/10/18/librarian-perspective-laura-gonzalez/

“Do you have the new Dogman yet?,” Julio earnestly asks as he rushes into our K-8 Spanish bilingual library. His face visibly deflates as I tell him that I do not. Edward, another second-grader sta…

18/10/2019

M is for Movement, our magazine site covering social justice children's books, creators, and those who engage with them, is now retooled and renamed as The Bull Horn! We'd love your input on how to make it relevant to you!
https://thebullhornblog.org/2019/10/18/help-us-shape-the-future-of-this-blog/

Hey MIFM readers and followers, We have an announcement to make. We have changed our name. Yes, we are now called “The Bull Horn” representing a loud and direct way to speak up about kid lit; espec…

18/10/2019

New Interview with Bharat Babies founder Sailaja N. Joshi
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Alison Goldberg: How did your vision for Bharat Babies come about? Sailaja Joshi: The idea for Bharat Babies began when I was pregnant with my daughter in 2013. I had a library-themed baby shower, …

18/10/2019

Back to Fun Book Fair in the DC , Maryland, Virginia area
https://thebullhornblog.org/back-to-fun-book-fair-by-dana-clark-colors/

I came across Dana Clark Colors’ book fair back in December or November of last year and was really excited to see a group of independent Black authors and illustrators putting on their own e…

18/10/2019

NEW post! Interview w/ Journey for Justice (Larry Itliong) co-creator Gayle Romasanta by Bay Area MC Rocky Rivera
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Rocky Rivera is an artist and journalist from San Francisco. She recently performed at the Journey for Justice book tour kick-off in Delano and interviewed one of its authors, Gayle Romasanta, on t…

18/10/2019

NEW interview of Arisa White and Laura Atkins about "Biddy Mason Speaks Up" up by Malaika Parker
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Biddy Mason Speaks Up is the second book in the Fighting for Justice series from Heyday Books. Bridget “Biddy” Mason was an African American philanthropist, healer, and midwife who was …

18/10/2019

Better late than never! 2018 Shout Outs from our some of our favorite children's literature folks!
https://misformovement.org/2019/01/15/2018-shout-outs/

Yes, it’s 2019, and you’re supposed to get something like this out before the holiday shopping season of the year in the title. And 2018 was a bumper crop year for social justice-themed…

18/10/2019

Carole Lindstrom interviews Debby Dahl Edwardson:
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Debby Dahl Edwardson lives and writes from her home in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. She writes fiction, sci-fi and fantasy for children and young adults. Her picture book, WHALE SNOW was named an NCSS/CBC No…

18/10/2019

Francie Latour: Aunt Luce's Talking Paintings
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Francie Latour is a writer and editor whose work explores issues of race, culture and identity. She coordinates a diversity initiative at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; she is also co-foun…

18/10/2019

Check out Supriya Kelkar's interview with Pat Cummings: "I do feel that receiving comfort and reassurance are essential to make children feel secure. But knowing that they have support behind them would hopefully help them feel strong enough to speak up when they need to be heard. "
https://misformovement.org/…/19/interview-with-pat-cummings/

I had the honor of speaking to another one of the contributors to the stirring anthology WE RISE, WE RESIST, WE RAISE OUR VOICES. Pat Cummings is the award winning author and illustrator of dozens …

18/10/2019

NEW too!! Interview with Traci Sorell https://misformovement.org/…/05/interview-with-traci-sorell/

  I first met Traci two years ago at the Kweli conference in NYC. And boy, am I glad I did. She has become a dear friend and a real inspiration. Her picture book, WE ARE GRATEFUL: OTSALIHELIGA…

18/10/2019

NEW! Interview with Evelyn Coleman, contributor to "We Rise, We Resist, We Raise"
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WE RISE, WE RESIST, WE RAISE OUR VOICES, (Crown Books for Young Readers, published in partnership with Just Us Books, September 4, 2018), an anthology edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson…

18/10/2019

Jamia Wilson interviewed by Kate Schatz! "I’m also interested from a literary activist standpoint, in ensuring that children are exposed to stories that affirm diversity and inclusion, challenge them to question, and inspire them to take action about the issues they care about in the world."
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KATE SCHATZ: Let’s start with the title of the book—Young, Gifted, and Black. How did you land on it? Did you have the idea for the book and then the title, or vice versa? For older generatio…

18/10/2019

"Ultimately, my objective in both mediums is to help people reshape the way they see themselves by understanding that our self-perception is created unconsciously by the stories we’re told and tell ourselves." Sean Qualls
https://thebullhornblog/2018/06/13/sean-qualls-interview/

Sean Qualls is an award-winning, Brooklyn-based, children’s book illustrator, author and artist. In addition to his fine art painting, he has illustrated number of highly acclaimed books for childr…

18/10/2019

Carole Lindstrom interviews Cynthia Leitich Smith:
"Authentic, compelling stories of three-dimensional Native characters are necessary to every young reader, especially those whose heritage is highlighted in a given book.
Enough with the stereotypes and manifest-destiny nonsense. Enough erasure.
We are not—and have never been—savage marauders or mystical creatures, caricatures meant to sell butter or sports teams.
We are living peoples of living Nations, living cultures.
We’re strong, we’re flawed, we’re joyful, we’re discouraged, we’re determined, we’re every quality that fuels irresistible fictional casts."
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Cynthia, or Cyn, as most of us know her, has been a dear friend and mentor of mine for several years. She is an amazing New York Times best-selling author of fiction for young readers. Her publishe…

18/10/2019

A new blog post from author Emma Otheguy : "On Book Drives" https://thebullhornblog/2018/05/22/on-book-drives/

Lately I’ve been thinking of a challenge that has come along with the many wonderful things that surrounded the publication of Martí’s Song for Freedom. It’s the day-in and day-out confrontation wi…

18/10/2019

“we don’t look at these books as a way to bore kids with political lessons, we look at them as entertaining ways to excite and awaken them in a language that means something to them.”
https://thebullhornblog.org/john-seven-jana-christy-we-say-no-a-childs-guide-to-resistance

18/10/2019

Author/illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh: “All art is political to some degree. That doesn’t mean that all children’s books need to be about politics. But I do believe that authors and illustrators need to think about who they choose to represent and how they choose to represent them.”
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Ten years ago I was a young dad going back to school when I met artist Duncan Tonatiuh in class. We were both students at Parsons in New York. Duncan was then working on his thesis project and show…

18/10/2019

Monica Clark-Robinson: "I want young readers to know that they have strength and agency. I want them to know that, young though they are, they can change the world. They are our future—no, they are their own future! "
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AFD: What teacher helped you find your writing voice? MCR: I couldn’t begin to name just one teacher! My ninth grade English teacher, several workshop leaders and speakers at conferences, the women…

18/10/2019

Lyn Miller-Lachmann: "I hope this story helps children to see the strength of their own family traditions as well as what newcomers can contribute to the places where they end up"

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Interview with Lyn Miller-Lachmann, translator of Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World), by Henriqueta Cristina; illustrated by Yara Kono (Enchanted Lion Books, 2017) AG: What’s the story behi…

18/10/2019

Deborah Kops: "Alice Paul’s campaign made a lot of people angry, including the members of a rival woman suffrage organization, but it was very successful. "
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AP: It was such a pleasure to read your new book Alice Paul and the Fight for Women’s Rights. I learned so much about Alice Paul and about the suffrage and women’s rights movements in the US! DK: T…

18/10/2019

Linda Williams Jackson: "Not everyone will be bold, nor brave enough, to do the big things, nor will everyone be in a position to do so. There might be barriers in the way, and these barriers could include family members. But stay in the fight and do what you can—even small things. "
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It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. For now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cotton plantation. Then, one town ove…

18/10/2019

Maya Christina Gonzalez "Self love opens up the pathways, sets the tone, allows the self to see through the falsehoods and inspires unity. This is exactly what Western culture fights and tries to dominate out of us: our empowered, creative unified SELVES connecting with nature and each other..."
https://misformovement.org/20…/…/26/maya-christina-gonzalez/

Maya and I first crossed paths in the early 2000s. I was fresh out of publishing studies, working at Children’s Book Press* with dreams of starting a publishing house for underrepresented stories t…

18/10/2019

Do you support everyday kids' books including same-sex-parented kids too? If so, read on, share widely, and click (link in post) to be counted among the market demand for these books. There are enough of us to change this landscape! https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmisformovement.org%2F2018%2F01%2F26%2Fwe-need-everyday-books-with-families-like-ours%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR20vYPdsnPo5Nn9nniF0UBgocl20PqTlxDl7MgERFbRU5EopyvfqR80zyE&h=AT2LviapOkfYGF7EGEoO0tiDugLKnNRUzb0FU8uqoxTv14mCc3S9CuTLtZlTFzeJAKUn-wzvGANVgjXK40AKn37hdXhNXI9_pJtaWOdfuMNTEkm5MZSlv5J6zrsTvSDfINzGgF21jscaSktFaNuwq5SwKoMhIr-iRKqrSPBiUy5XDa-0PO0weEQDEWSbW-chEFqPGX84g7iHGVIJyIX6Xml4TIIiRN3NhlwAniAKy2ZcnfTljcMZTqB0LIgFXcvF36MxeyTUXS8E2iS9y60lpT5sf3V0kGQKdYYmjWMk3vX2-ZDwPXWQjFwq_EIZb5ZOfSWt1CmZth93WatQN3T9iEryIFHpkD5lBvG6bmfiL4jzrqfVN8XXBRuGVQgBEh2n3iTLee6lWEbZdA0i9crHn2uRG_zJUdQHS5GCiQYqfvEawE6bDv3R3F0GqePxLbfaVAhriLlK-csRYNiT_bEnhQBgVVmAHK2wLZmaQqloWrBPAC8A5XAicvj3E-t77puOKE_-53bJbGiuYPDvYff8yMlsnw03KPngjmRL6InEI1S8LsD0clgdyGfabcKLwub8eQqw42g25Vw3DQM-Zhy79lncK-1HN-tdALMZVNwU5_MFmadd4KGr1t5r4qDWc3lP4FTkOXUhBGbhw7CoAQ

The State of Picture Book Offerings with Same-sex-parented Children Anna was born in our 2008 Subaru Outback on a cold night in January 2013. She is named after a Tolstoy character. We, Anna’s two …

18/10/2019

Janine Macbeth reflects on the Social Justice Children's Book Holiday Fair held in Oakland two weekends ago. "No mythologies here; we’re still marginalized and on the fringes. But we’re together, and on the rise."
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Most any significant endeavor calls for accomplices. – Phillipe Petit If you flock to high-profile exclusive events with VIPs and groupies, flashy swag bags and passed hors d’oeuvres (I…

18/10/2019

2017 has been a busy year for those creating social justice themed children's books. We asked a bunch of folks to share a couple of their faves, and here's what they said!
https://thebullhornblog.org/2017/12/12/2017-activist-kids-books-shout-outs/

This has been a busy year for social justice children’s book creators. Undoubtedly the Trump campaign, election, and the racism, sexism, xenophobia and hate it has unleashed has highlighted the nee…

18/10/2019

"what we want to do is give kids credit. We know kids are noticing racial differences and making meaning out of them." Wee the People
https://thebullhornblog2017/11/05/wee-the-people-what-we-want-to-do-is-give-kids-credit/

Last June, my kids and I attended a terrific program at the Cambridge Public Library. Wee the People, a Boston-based social justice project for kids, led a summer reading kickoff that included acti…

18/10/2019

"There have been other artists who have said “tone this or that down” if you want to get a job or impress this or that person. But I do not care, if they ask me I’m going to tell them what I think. Sometimes that makes art less cuddly, but so be it." -- Robert Liu-Trujillo
https://thebullhornblog.org/2017/10/31/robert-liu-trujillo-a-lifelong-artist-who-began-as-a-kid-obsessed-with-graffiti-writers/

I first met Robert on 17th street in downtown Oakland (CA) as I was walking to lunch with my coworkers. He was working on a giant mural with a bunch of young people hanging on various levels of sca…

18/10/2019

Cynthia Levinson on the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks: "The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has conducted many dozens of interviews not only with community leaders but also with “foot soldiers,” the everyday but very brave people who contributed their time and sometimes their bodies to the cause of civil rights. When I read the transcript of Audrey’s interview, in which she described carrying her board game on a protest march and then to jail, I knew I needed to talk with her."

https://thebullhornblog.org/2017/10/10/cynthia-levinson-the-youngest-marcher/

18/10/2019

Daniel Camacho discusses his journey, and his process in illustrating Joelito's Big Decision:
"At first I just thought I’d draw pictures for a story, but getting in the classrooms and reading the stories (as Ann developed the storyline) I realized that the students could offer a lot more, and that’s where my ideas grew from. I was actually combining my own ideas with those of the students. They really gave me good ideas for the pictures."
https://misformovement.org/2017/10/09/daniel_camacho/

I was first introduced to Daniel Camacho’s art through the children’s book he illustrated, Joelito’s Big Decision/La Gran Decisison de Joelito. Ann Berlack, the author, had contacted me with some q…