ChLA 2019: Thank You!

The International Committee’s focus panel on Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic British literature was a huge success, and we would like to thank the ChLA board for their continuing support of our efforts to broaden the membership’s understanding of children’s literature around the globe.

We also thank all the members who attended the panel as well as the participants, Patrice Lawrence, Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, and Aishwarya Subramanian. Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence’s very personal account of what it took to break into British publishing as a person of color were underscored by Melanie Ramdarshan Bold’s work on BAME British authors of young adult literature, and Aishwarya Subramanian’s historical look back to diverse literature of the 1970s.

We on the International Committee were pleased to host this discussion of British literature, and look forward to next year’s discussion of Korean literature as well.

Images from ChLA 2019

To see more pictures and learn more about the 2019 ChLA International Committee Sponsored Panel, please visit our conference page.