When The Brown Bookshelf launched 28 Days Later in 2007, our objectives have been easy – honor Black youngsters’s literature creatives who blazed trails in publishing and spotlight Black youngsters’s lit creatives who weren’t getting a major degree of recognition and promotional assist for his or her works.
We’ve completed these objectives yr after yr and are proud that 28 Days Later has the particular honor of that includes people who’ve blessed youngsters’s literature with classics, in addition to those that have picked up the baton and damaged new floor with new storytelling kinds and matters.
Over the past 15 years, the panorama of youngsters’s literature has modified and but has not modified sufficient. Campaigns like 28 Days Later stay needed within the face of guide bans and uneven advertising and marketing practices in publishing. As we advocate for the amplification of Black voices in youngsters’s literature it’s important that we’re intentional in our method.
To that finish, 28 Days Later will take a hiatus whereas we use the following yr to deep dive into what The Brown Bookshelf and its initiatives should appear like to remain true to our mission.
Though no new options will probably be accessible, in 2023, our web site stays a treasure trove of Black youngsters’s literature profiles. And we invite you to hitch us in February 2023 as we share a few of our favourite options from the 28 Days Later archives.
The Brown Bookshelf Staff
