{"id":25013,"date":"2018-03-26T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=25013"},"modified":"2018-03-26T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:00:58","slug":"kid-lit-marches-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=25013","title":{"rendered":"Kid Lit Marches for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

In marches all across the country children’s booksellers were on the move\u00a0this weekend to demand gun control to stem our nation’s epidemic of gun violence. Saturday’s March for Our Lives demonstrations, organized by students, included among their ranks booksellers\u00a0and other members of the kid lit community, many organized to march together by authors Raina Telgemeier and Jenny Han under the banner of Kid Lit Marches for Kids<\/a>. In addition to helping organizing groups to march together,\u00a0Telgemeier designed art for posters and banners to carry. Several other talented illustrators also designed artwork for the march, making files available online for free download. Here are some photos that colleagues shared with me over the weekend.
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Designs donated for march signs by Dan Santat (left) and Raina Telgemeier (center). On the right is canine marcher Eli.<\/p><\/div>
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\n\"\"<\/a>Author April\u00a0Halprin Wayland holds a Kidlit Marches for Kids sign designed by Telgemeier and a fellow marcher\u00a0holds a poster of Dan Santat’s art created for this cause.
\nApril says that Santat’s design brings to mind Kent State.\u00a0They marched in Manhattan Beach with more than 5,000 neighbors.
\nAbove, April’s dog Eli is tuckered out after all that marching.
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\nPat Fowler of Village Square Booksellers in Vermont \"\"<\/a>estimates there were over 250 marchers at the demonstration in Keene. Pat shows off her march sign and shares a photo of the stage where a student is reading a poem next to a march organizer. The March for Our Lives movement, including the march in Washington D.C. and sister marches all around the country, were organized by students. It was so inspiring to see these young people speaking at rallies, sharing their personal stories, and leading the way for all of us to create a safer world by doing some serious community organizing and working to get out the vote.
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\nCarol Price at BookPeople of Moscow in Idaho shares this\u00a0wonderful photo of\u00a0teenage bookstore employee Emma Seckington, pictured here. Emma helped organize Moscow’s March for Our Lives event and was one of the emcees. Carol says, “I’m so proud of Emma! And I let her off work early so she’d get to the march on time.” Another teen staffer helped Emma haul signs to the March, which Carol says had an impressive turnout. It was also one of many marches around the country taking place in snow or rain.
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\nRounding out\u00a0today’s photo gallery is a shot\u00a0from the\u00a0Boston rally. On the right is Elise Supovitz, executive director of independent sales at Candlewick. To her left is Susie Albert, New England field rep for Penguin Young Readers.\u00a0Their signs feature a familiar character who always seems to be in the middle of a crowd.
\nAnd here’s a clearer look at\u00a0a few of the great designs donated for use in the marches by kidlit illustrators:
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Poster by Raina Telgemeier<\/p><\/div>
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Poster by Dan Santat<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Poster by Victoria Jameson<\/p><\/div>
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A photo gallery from children’s booksellers, authors, and publishing staff participating in March for Our Lives events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}