Category Archives: BookTalk

Black History Month Giveaway 2012

February 7, 2012 – 11:02 am

It’s Black History Month, and that means another giveaway from Lee & Low Books! We’re giving away three sets of three books featuring African Americans, and the contest will run through February 29, 2012. You may have noticed that the winners won’t get their books until after Black History Month. We think Black History Month [...]

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Native American Heritage Books

November 9, 2010 – 5:53 pm

It’s Native American Heritage month, and do we ever have recommendations for you! You can go to our site and see all our Native American titles, but we’re going to highlight a couple of them today. Sky Dancers is a majestic story of the Mohawk steal workers who built the skyscrapers of New York City, [...]

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Amazing Stories

May 25, 2010 – 3:12 pm

Amazing Faces, one of our new spring books, is a collection of poems celebrating the amazing people and faces that surround us every day. We asked the poets to share the stories behind their poems. Here are some of their responses: Jane Yolen, “Karate Kid” A number of years ago, Lee Bennett Hopkins asked me [...]

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Raising Children Away from Home

February 2, 2010 – 4:11 pm

White Americans tend to raise children in nuclear families—just parents and kids—but in many cultures and many immigrant groups, extended families are deeply involved. Only One Year, one of our new Spring books, is about a Chinese American family sending their two-year-old boy to live for a year in China, with his grandparents and surrounded [...]

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Christy Hale BookTalks about The East-West House

October 12, 2009 – 12:25 pm

A wonderful interview from Christy’s home and studio in Palo Alto, California. Christy shares the motivation and process behind making her book, The East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan. The interview captures the excitement of Christy’s mixed media approach to the book and is chock full of art in progress, finished pages, and read passages [...]

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Ted & Betsy Lewin Studio Video

September 17, 2009 – 2:29 pm

  A visit to the Caldecott honor winning couple’s art studio and home reveals a lifetime of travel, art, books, and adventure. Located in Brooklyn, Ted and Betsy’s brownstone is a testament to how world travel can inspire great stories. They also talk about their picture book Balarama: A Royal Elephant which is based on [...]

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Exploring Kenya with Lynne Barasch

September 3, 2009 – 11:32 am

“I love the freedom of writing fiction. Still, to be believable, fiction has to be grounded in some reality.” Head over to the main site for a brand-new interview with author/illustrator Lynne Barasch. Her newest book, First Come the Zebra, is a fictional story based on tribal disputes in Kenya. In the interview, Barasch discusses [...]

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Painting Demonstration

June 9, 2009 – 5:43 pm

Illustrator Bill Farnsworth shares a wonderful oil painting demonstration, using Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer as his subject. This painting demonstration shows the skill and attention to detail that goes into illustrating our picture books.

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Summer Reading Survey

June 9, 2009 – 5:39 pm

Some of our authors and illustrators share their memories of summer reading to inspire kids to cool down with a good book on hot summer days.

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