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Announcing Our first DiYA Monthly Book Roundup!

February 10, 2012 – 11:32 am

Some of you may be familiar with Diversity in YA (DiYA), a lovely project started last year by authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo to bring more attention to diversity in children’s literature. During the year-long DiYA project, Cindy and Malinda were kind enough to do a roundup each month of new titles coming out [...]

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Guadalupe Garcia McCall thanks the committee…

February 3, 2012 – 2:36 pm

Under the Mesquite author Guadalupe Garcia McCall thanks the William C. Morris and Pura Belpre award committees that honored her book, along with readers: Here’s one of my very favorite parts of Guadalupe’s Morris Ceremony speech at the American Library Association Midwinter Conference: I realized that I had to write not to be published, but [...]

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BIG news: We’ve acquired Children’s Book Press

January 26, 2012 – 5:07 pm

We’ve got some exciting news to share: LEE & LOW BOOKS has acquired multicultural children’s book publisher Children’s Book Press. From the press release: January 26, 2012—Continuing to expand despite a difficult economy, LEE & LOW BOOKS, an independent publisher of high quality books for children that focuses on diversity, announced today that it has [...]

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Diversity in 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

December 8, 2011 – 4:49 pm

In our December e-news, we took a look at how 2011 has played out in terms of diversity with a few events of note: Good: We started Tu Books! Which means more diversity in science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo organized the Diversity in YA tour and website to highlight [...]

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Cover Reveal, Part II: Cat Girl’s Day Off

December 8, 2011 – 11:32 am

Never listen to a cat. You don’t have the luxury of eight more lives when the kitty litter hits the fan. Today we’re excited to share the cover of Cat Girl’s Day Off by the oh-so-hilarious Kimberly Pauley (author of Sucks to Be Me), out this April from our Tu Books imprint: Natalie “Cat Girl” Ng [...]

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Things I’ve learned from book bloggers today

December 1, 2011 – 5:58 pm

There’s been quite a firestorm on twitter today after a certain publisher sent a letter with a new set of requirements to book bloggers about how to request and review books. Many book bloggers felt that the letter did not respect them or what they do, and were pretty angry about it. I’m not going [...]

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Why we’re walking 12 miles tomorrow

November 17, 2011 – 7:44 pm

So. Tomorrow a few of us from the Lee & Low office will be doing something kind of crazy: walking 12 miles around Manhattan. Why? Well, some of you might know that we’ve just released a book called Love Twelve Miles Long about Frederick Douglass and his mother, Harriet. When Frederick was very young, Harriet [...]

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Cover Reveal, Part I: VODNÍK

November 16, 2011 – 5:11 pm

It’s HERE! We are super excited to share the cover of Vodník by Bryce Moore, out this March from our Tu Books imprint. About the book: Short version: Slovakian fairy tales! Roma characters! CASTLES!! Long version: Vodník is a YA contemporary fantasy about Tomas, a Roma teen who moves with his family from the US [...]

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Halloween: A culture, not a costume

October 31, 2011 – 3:48 pm

Happy Halloween, everyone! Some of you may have seen this new anti-racism poster campaign coming out of Ohio State University, put together by one of their student organizations: The campaign quickly went viral and has drawn national attention (along with a number of parodies). What’s good about these posters is the extensive discussions they’ve sparked [...]

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Free webinar with Jan Reynolds, live from Bali!

October 5, 2011 – 3:35 pm

Our very own author/adventurer/world record-breaker Jan Reynolds will be hosting a live, free webinar this Friday from Bali, the site of her award-winning book, Cycle of Rice, Cycle of Life: A Story of Sustainable Farming. Tune in here at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on October 7 to explore the cycle of sustainable rice farming [...]

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