Women’s History Month 2018

March is Women’s History Month, and that gave author-illustrator-supermom-friend-of-the-Horn-Book Grace Lin [edited to add, per Comment below] and colleagues including Karen Blumenthal, Meg Medina, Christine Taylor-Butler, and Jeanette Bradley, plus others a radical idea: let’s celebrate and amplify the work and voices of women in the children’s book industry. (Remember how last year we said, “now seems like an especially important time to celebrate the achievements of women and girls“? Well, now seems like that times a thousand #MeToo #TimesUp)

Grace and Karen co-organize a new Facebook group and associated hashtag (crowd sourced and voted on) — #KidLitWomen — with the following mission: “calling attention to the gender inequities of our industry, uplifting the women who have not received their due, and finding solutions to reach equality.” Every day in March, people will be posting thematic articles, essays, poems, interviews, etc., to further the mission and keep the conversation going. The Horn Book is participating by posting our own articles and by amplifying, amplifying, amplifying. Join us.

Illustration by Grace Lin.

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