Celebrate Black History Month with Two Book Collections from LEE & LOW BOOKS!
A heads up to our blog readers that we have two great sales happening now to celebrate Black History Month! We’re offering 25% off two Black History Month collections on leeandlow.com through the end...
View ArticleAwards and Grants for Authors of Color
Getting your book published is difficult, and unfortunately it tends to be much harder when you’re a Person of Color. While there are more diverse books being published, there’s still a lot of work to...
View ArticleSelection Is Privilege
Amy Koester is the Youth & Family Program Coordinator at Skokie Public Library, where she selects fiction for youth birth through teens and oversees programming aimed at children through grade 5....
View ArticleReading for the Earth: Ultimate Earth Day Resource Roundup
Earth Day, April 22nd is right around the corner, and we at Lee & Low are some pretty big fans of this blue planet we live on. So, whether you choose to plant a tree or pledge to better uphold the...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: Dreaming Up
April is National Poetry Month! All month long we’ll be celebrating by posting some of our favorite poems for Poetry Friday. For our final Poetry Friday post, we chose a poem from Dreaming Up: A...
View ArticleWhat is Día de los niños/Día de los Libros? 5 Questions for Pat Mora
Día de los niños/Día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day) is an annual celebration of books and literacy that takes place each year on our near April 30. The American Library Association says: Día...
View ArticlePresident Obama Announces ConnectED Library Challenge and #BooksforAll Project
Every child deserves the chance to learn and thrive in an environment that is enriched by the latest technology. Two years ago President Obama announced ConnectED, a signature initiative focused on...
View ArticleSubmit Your Picture Book Manuscript to the New Voices Award!
Summer is almost there! That means that the sixteenth annual NEW VOICES AWARD is now open for submissions. Established in 2000, the New Voices Award was one of the first (and remains one of the only)...
View ArticleStudent Book Review: Seeds of Change
In this guest post, Ruben Brosbe’s third-grade students from P.S. 368, The Hamilton Heights School in New York, NY demonstrate their critical thinking skills and share their reviews of the book Seeds...
View Article2015 Diverse Summer Reading Book Lists K-8
June is finally here! Winter is already a long distant memory and students are becoming more and more fixated on the summer vacation countdowns they started in January, daydreaming of exciting and...
View ArticleHow to Turn a Quiet Author Event into a Big Success
In this joint guest post, librarian Jane Levitan of the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Libraries and author/illustrator Lulu Delacre give their takes on a quiet event that turned into a great...
View ArticleWhat does Juneteenth Celebrate?
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas and more generally the emancipation of African American slaves throughout the...
View ArticlePride Month: Fifteen LGBTQ-Themed Books for Readers of Every Age
June is Pride Month! Pride Month commemorates the Stonewall Riots, which happened June 1969, and was a starting point for the Gay Rights movement. The Stonewall Inn, where the riots took place, in New...
View ArticleNew Spring and Fall Releases from LEE & LOW BOOKS and Tu Books!
Summer is here in full force. It’s the perfect time to curl up pool- or beachside with a good book! Look no further than our new spring and fall releases! Finding the Music/En pos de la música When...
View Article8 Books to Celebrate International Friendship Day
August 2nd - also known as International Friendship Day- is almost here. (I know, summer is going by WAY too fast). In honor of International Friendship Day, break out your half of your friendship...
View ArticleThe Other Side of Quiet – An Intern’s Perspective
Kandace Coston is LEE & LOW’s summer intern. She is one of five recipients of the We Need Diverse Books Internship Program inaugural grant. She graduated from Barnard College where she majored in...
View ArticleInterview: Monica Brown on Her New Book Maya’s Blanket
Out this September from the Children’s Book Press imprint of LEE & LOW, Maya’s Blanket/La manta de Maya puts a child-focused Latino spin on the traditional Yiddish folk song “Hob Ikh Mir a Mantl”...
View ArticleDiversifying Your Back-to-School Reading
In this guest post from the Lee & Low archives, professor Katie Cunningham discusses ways to diversify Common Core recommended texts. As we gather resources to begin the new school year, Katie’s...
View ArticleHow a Writing Contest for Students is Changing the Immigration Narrative
LEE & LOW BOOKS has two writing contests for unpublished authors of color: the New Voices Award, for picture book manuscripts, and the New Visions Award, for middle grade and young adult...
View ArticleDiversity Baseline Survey Update: #BigFiveSignOn and Survey Deadline
Exciting things have happened with the Diversity Baseline Survey since our last update! The Diversity Baseline Survey gathers statistics on publishing staff and reviewers in four major categories: 1)...
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