Coloring Between the Lines

reflections on race, culture and children’s books

For Educators

The books I create do best in the school and library market, and in my experience, that's where the conversation about race and culture in children's books is most active. Educators - librarians, teachers, parents, and others who work with children - are significant colleagues for me, and I welcome your views.


Suggested Blog Posts:

"Africa is Not a Country"
"Universal Questions"
"Connecting Kids to Their World"
"The Colors of My World"
"A White Christmas"
"Noticing Race"
"Race Talk with Young Kids: How to Start"
"Books on Skin Color & Race"
"Talking with Children About RacISM"
"The Color of Their Skin"
"The Different One: Racial Identity Development"
"How to Talk About Race: Expert #1"
"How to Talk About Race: Expert #2"
"How to Talk About Race: Expert #3"
"How To Talk About Race: A List of Books"
"They Didn't Get That From Me!"
"International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination"
"Seeing What We Can't See"
"Kony 12 and Images of Africa"
"When We Don't Talk About Race with Children"
"Skills for Welcoming Difference - Part I"
"Skills for Welcoming Difference - Part II"
"Class Talk I"
"Class Talk II"
"Class Talk III"
"Do One Thing for Diversity"
"This is a Crisis"
"Tips From a Bookseller"
"Strange New World: Through the Eyes of Just-Arrived Immigrants"

I'm Your Neighbor Books:
"Welcoming New Neighbors"
"Funded!"
"'I'm Your Neighbor, Portland' Launches"
"Ramadan Mubarak"
"Welcoming New Americans" 

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This blog looks at issues of race and culture in relation to creating and using children's literature, as seen by a white American author-illustrator of multiracial, multicultural books.
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Anne Sibley O’Brien is a children’s book writer and illustrator who was raised bilingual and bicultural in South Korea. She has received the National Education Association’s Author-Illustrator Human & Civil Rights Award for the body of her work with Margy Burns Knight (TALKING WALLS and other books); the Africana Award for AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY by Knight and Mark Melnicove; and the Aesop Award and the Asian-Pacific American Award for Literature for THE LEGEND OF HONG KIL DONG: THE ROBIN HOOD OF KOREA, a graphic novel which she wrote and illustrated. She has illustrated WHAT WILL YOU BE, SARA MEE? (Charlesbridge 2010) by Kate Aver Avraham and MOON WATCHERS: SHIRIN'S RAMADAN MIRACLE (Tilbury 2010) by Reza Jalali. A PATH OF STARS (Charlesbridge 2012), a picture book about a Cambodian-American family which she wrote and illustrated under commission from the Maine Humanities Council, was named an Honor Book of the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. In 2014 she received the Katahdin Award for lifetime achievement from the Maine Library Association. Her latest title is I'M NEW HERE, a picture book about 3 immigrant children.
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