{"id":1287,"date":"2011-01-25T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:41","slug":"international-multicultural-childrens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"International &#038; Multicultural Children&#8217;s Book Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across a few fascinating links via a recent issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/expression_online\">Expression Online<\/a> e-newsletter (the international SCBWI newsletter), and I thought I&#8217;d post those along with the news that the US Board on Books for Young People recently released their 2010 list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usbby.org\/outstanding_international_books_list.htm\">Outstanding International Books<\/a>. The list includes some personal favorites by Shaun Tan, Patrick Ness, and Neil Gaiman&#8211;and I got a sneak preview (well, not REALLY sneaky) and copy of the bookmark at ALA! Go check it out and download the bookmark or the PowerPoint on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usbby.org\/outstanding_international_books_list.htm\">USBBY website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know there is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibna.ir\/en\/\">Iran Book News Agency<\/a>? It&#8217;s a nonprofit organization whose website includes all sorts of interesting news about the Iranian book scene, including news about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibna.ir\/vsnca45q8byd2.y-2.html\">teen books and authors<\/a>. I found out that the classic stories of the gorgeously illuminated Shahnama will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibna.ir\/vdchmznw.23nx6d10t2.html\">rewritten for children<\/a>&#8211;very cool.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcdailyplanet.net\/blog\/mary-treacy\/books-and-young-muslim-readers-missing-links\">article in the Twin Cities <i>Daily Planet<\/i><\/a> disputes an oft-quoted claim that there are few images of Muslims in children&#8217;s literature today.  According to the article&#8217;s author, Mary Treacy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The ten years since 9\/11 have actually seen promising rise in books about Muslim history, Muslims in America, and books about young Muslims, particularly stories that debunk myths about Muslim girls and women.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcdailyplanet.net\/blog\/mary-treacy\/books-and-young-muslim-readers-missing-links\">Read the full article<\/a> for numerous examples and other resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across a few fascinating links via a recent issue of the Expression Online e-newsletter (the international SCBWI newsletter), and I thought I&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,60,47,15,10,86],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-book-news","tag-ethnicity-and-ya-literature","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views","tag-web-wanderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}