By Michele Kirichanskaya Today we’re pleased to welcome Sonia Hartl to the WNDB blog to discuss The Lost Girls. What inspired The Lost Girls? Why Vampires? (Also, is the title based off the vampire film, The Lost Boys?) It started out with me just messing around on Twitter, probably … [Read more...] about Q&A With Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls
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Q&A With S. K. Ali, Misfit in Love
By Alaina Leary Today we’re pleased to welcome S. K. Ali to the WNDB blog to discuss her YA novel Misfit in Love, out May 25, 2021! Read our roundtable interview with S. K. Ali and other romance writers. In this fun and fresh sequel to Saints and Misfits, Janna hopes her brother’s wedding will … [Read more...] about Q&A With S. K. Ali, Misfit in Love
Platforms Like Wattpad Allow Marginalized Authors to Reach Readers
By Chazz Mair Growing up, I struggled to find myself. I was a member of one of my majority-white suburb’s few Black families and the only one out of them to be the child of first-generation immigrants. I lived in a pocket of an already small subsection of the populace. I looked and spoke … [Read more...] about Platforms Like Wattpad Allow Marginalized Authors to Reach Readers
Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr (Cookie Chronicles) in Conversation
Today we’re pleased to welcome Robbi Behr and Matthew Swanson to the WNDB blog to discuss their middle grade series Cookie Chronicles. The first two books in the series, Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom and Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Endless Waiting are out now! Meet Ben, a … [Read more...] about Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr (Cookie Chronicles) in Conversation
Black History Is Made Year-Round
As Black History Month comes to a close in the United States, we reiterate that Black history is not static, limited purely to the past — it is made year-round. The Black experience is not monolithic, and each story adds nuance to our collective understanding of it. Whether Black authors are … [Read more...] about Black History Is Made Year-Round
Jennifer Yen’s YA Novel Is Pride & Prejudice Meets the Great British Baking Show With an All-Asian Main Cast
A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen is out now. Order it here! By Karis Rogerson When I first read about A Taste for Love, I was absolutely hooked by the premise. It sounded like a teenage Bachelorette with baking! And then there’s the Jane Austen retelling, which is just the icing on the cake … [Read more...] about Jennifer Yen’s YA Novel Is Pride & Prejudice Meets the Great British Baking Show With an All-Asian Main Cast
We Need Diverse Books Is Looking for Blog Volunteers
WE ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED TO NEW APPLICATIONS. About We Need Diverse Books. In 2014, We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) began as a simple hashtag on Twitter to respond to the lack of diversity in children’s literature. Four years later, we have grown from a grassroots movement into a non-profit with a … [Read more...] about We Need Diverse Books Is Looking for Blog Volunteers
