Introducing the Holocaust to Children Through Books

April 4, 2013 – 12:29 pm

Marcia Vaughan, author of IRENA’S JARS OF SECRETS, shares her thoughts on how to talk to children about the Holocaust using books.

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Black History Month: Why Remember Robert Smalls?

February 6, 2013 – 10:30 am

Everyone knows Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr., but there are many other African Americans who have contributed to the rich fabric of our country but whose names have fallen through the cracks of history. We’ve asked some of our authors who chose to write biographies of these talented leaders why we should remember […]

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Black History Month Book Giveaway 2013

February 1, 2013 – 6:25 pm

It’s Black History Month, and that means it’s time for our annual giveaway from Lee & Low Books! We’re giving away three sets of three books featuring African Americans, and the contest will run through February 28, 2013. To enter, follow in the footsteps of Dave the Potter, the subject of our new biography Etched […]

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What does close reading look like in Fourth Grade?

December 10, 2012 – 7:00 am

Resident Literacy Expert Jaclyn DeForge discusses how to do a close reading of a fourth grade level text.

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Seven Inspirational Speeches and Why They Matter

November 14, 2012 – 7:00 am

I was watching President Barack Obama’s re-election speech last week and it got me thinking about speeches—how historically, great speeches really matter. Speeches are like placeholders to mark significant milestones in history.

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Rethinking Columbus Day

October 8, 2012 – 1:06 pm

In this post, our publicity intern Gina Chung offers some thoughts on reframing the Columbus Day holiday: Have you ever stopped to think about the implications of celebrating Columbus Day? While most of us probably grew up associating the holiday with classroom rhymes and pneumatic devices (“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” etc.), days […]

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Video Thursday: From the Eyes of a 100-year-old Chief

January 6, 2011 – 4:26 pm

A centenarian, chief of his indigenous village on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, speaks about culture, his life, dying, and changing times: Contains traditional Vanuatu clothing—very revealing by Western standards.Via The Daily Dish It’s great to see things like this video—or like our Vanishing Cultures books—that search out people in isolated areas and cultures […]

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Video Thursday: Visualizing the World

December 23, 2010 – 2:51 pm

Swedish doctor and statistician Hans Rosling illustrates and explains the progression of world health and wealth around the world, tracking 200 countries over 200 years. Disparities between the colonizers and the colonized, the effect of wars, emerging economies—it’s all here: We’re off for the holidays tomorrow and next week, so we’ll see you in 2011. […]

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This Week in Diversity: Looking At History and Faces

November 19, 2010 – 5:26 pm

Another Friday is here, and we have another round of links to articles we think you’ll appreciate. Enjoy, and feel free to come back and comment on what you thought. Our first reading suggestion comes from the New York Times. This year is the 150th anniversary of the start of the civil war, and the […]

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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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