Ellen Oh

Jul 19, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Ellen Oh |E.B. White |Garth Williams |Raina Telgemeier

We Need Diverse Books co-founder Oh follows up Flying Lessons & Other Stories (2017) with a collection of 12 interwoven, slice-of-life tales from acclaimed middle-grade authors. In an unnamed American city stands a (potentially haunted) yellow apartment building called the Entrada, where aromas of food and loud sounds set the tone for a summer of communal living. Desirée, apparently of West Indian descent, helps Ro perform a lion dance for her Chinese school.

Mar 8, 2024 | johnsoncountypost.com | Ellen Oh |Kim Johnson |Laeken Zea Kemp

The March Read Across SMSD theme encourages all of us to “Celebrate Diversity.” Click here to view the video. The books selected this month give us the opportunity to help broaden our understanding of ourselves and others – especially the people we interact with every day. The elementary featured book is called “A Crown for Corina” by Laeken Zea Kemp. In this book, readers meet Corina, who is celebrating her birthday by making a beautiful crown with flowers picked from her grandmother’s garden.

Jan 16, 2024 | lasvegassun.com | Becky Pringle |Caroline Richmond |Ellen Oh

Books that once lined the shelves of the library in a Jacksonville, Fla., elementary school are now stored in boxes. The school librarian spends her days vetting titles to comply with new censorship laws passed by the state. In Spotsylvania County, Va., educators spent up to 40 hours a week reviewing titles after a mother of two students single-handedly challenged over 70 books in her school district. In one Utah district, 199 of 205 challenges were tracked to one married couple.

Nov 28, 2023 | ajc.com | Maureen Downey |Becky Pringle |Caroline Richmond |Ellen Oh

In a guest column, three education advocates share their growing concern over censorship campaigns that target books about and by people of color and those with LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Middle school teacher Becky Pringle is president of the National Education Association.

Jul 15, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Anica Mrose Rissi |Jon Klassen |Ellen Oh |Harper Collins

Wishing Season by Anica Mrose Rissi; Quill Tree, 240 pages ($18.99) Age 8 to 12. “At ten minutes past the usual time, the school bus rolled to its usual stop, opened its door, and coughed out a girl.”Thus begins this beautifully written, moving novel, set in summer on an island off Maine, of an 11-year-old girl struggling with overwhelming grief after the death of her beloved twin brother.