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Book cover with the title "The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers" on a navy background.

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PUBLISHING MAY 28, 2024

The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers

Little, Brown Spark

An adaptable guide for anyone who wants to communicate with compassion in a rapidly changing environment.

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Allstora
Amazon
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Bookshop.org
Tertulia (use code STYLE for 20% off through May 28, 2024)

Three ghosts jeer at a Chinese American ghost dressed like a Chinese pop-culture ghost.

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So Not Ghoul

Page Street Kids (2022)

This ghoulishly playful ghost story offers a boo-tiful reminder that while sometimes school and family can make you feel invisible, bicultural pride never goes out of style.

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On this square book cover is the large tail of a blue whale on a mustard background. Various animals such as a panda, lion, sheep, and giraffe surround the tale, which has the title in fat, textured hand-drawn letters.

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Whole Whale

Barefoot Books (2021)

One hundred unusual animals try to squeeze into the pages of this raucous rhyming tale. But will there be room to fit a whole blue whale? The humorous ending features an expansive double gatefold and educational endnotes list the 100 animals in the book.

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Picture book cover with a pug front and center, surrounded by a diverse group of people enjoying donuts.

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Doug the Pug and the Kindness Crew

Scholastic (2022)

Doug the Pug loves pizza, posing for paw-traits, and above all else, spreading paw-sitivity. Join the Kindness Crew and follow Doug as he embarks on an adventure across town to share kindness with everyone he meets. Doug the Pug makes his picture book debut in this original illustrated story.

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On a cobalt-blue background, about nine featureless faces in a variety of skin tones and hairstyles are arranged in a contrasting cluster of blues, pinks, browns, oranges, blacks. The contributors' names frame the image in small, all-caps type. The title, Boundless, begins at the top left and runs down and across the cover.

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Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities

Inkyard Press (2023)

In this groundbreaking anthology, Karen Yin’s short story “My Kinda Sorta Badass Move” shares the spotlight with nineteen stories that center and celebrate the multiracial and multicultural experience.

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