Dr. Michelle H. Martin became the Beverly Cleary Endowed Professor in Children and Youth Services in the Information School at the University of Washington in September 2016. From 2011- June 2016 she was the inaugural Augusta Baker Endowed Chair in Childhood Literacy at the University of South Carolina. She teaches children’s and young adult literature and youth services courses and has published Brown Gold: Milestones of African-American Children’s Picture Books, 1845-2002 (Routledge 2004) and co-edited (with Claudia Nelson) Sexual Pedagogies: Sex Education in Britain, Australia, and America, 1879-2000 (Palgrave, 2003). Martin co-founded Camp Read-a-Rama (www.Read-a-Rama.org), a non-profit that uses children’s books as the springboard for year-round and summer camp literacy immersion programming. Martin publishes widely on issues of diversity in children’s literature and reviews dozens of children’s books annually.

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