First Book, Stories for All Project Chooses LEE & LOW

March 13, 2013 – 11:15 am

In a groundbreaking announcement, First Book, a non-profit social enterprise launched the Stories for All project. The project’s aim is to introduce a significant number of multicultural books into the hands of low-income children. LEE & LOW was chosen as one of two publishers to be a part of this endeavor and receive a $500,000 award.

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Happy LGBT Pride Month!

June 19, 2012 – 5:13 pm

June is LGBT Pride Month, and throughout this month people everywhere (including President Obama) have been celebrating the positive impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people have had in the world. The fight for LGBT rights has always been a matter of civil rights and equality, as our publisher noted in a recent post, […]

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Equality . . . For All

June 1, 2012 – 12:13 pm

Throughout the history of the United States, equality for all people has been fought for and won time and time again. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence ”that all men are created equal,” and over time equal rights have been gradually extended to different groups of people. However, equality has never been achieved without heated debate, despite our country’s founding principle that all people are created equal in the first place.

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DiYA March: New Diverse Middle Grade and YA Novels

March 16, 2012 – 2:57 pm

Last month we announced that we’d be taking over Diversity in YA‘s roundups of new diverse middle grade and young adult books coming out each month, started by authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo. Using the DiYA definition, we define diversity for the purpose of this roundup as: (1) main characters or major secondary characters […]

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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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This Week in Diversity: Prizes and Veterans

November 12, 2010 – 6:39 pm

There’s been a lot of chatter about prizes lately! The ALA has added another children’s book award—and more diversity. The new Stonewall Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award will be recognizing books for young readers relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience. There could also be a prize for you! To […]

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This Week in Diversity: Changing and Expanding Communities

July 23, 2010 – 11:39 am

Some interesting essays round the blogosphere this week touching on all kinds of diversity—race and more! Cynic’s blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates, and he has a really interesting look at the progression of ethnic groups through his neighborhood: first the Irish, then the Jews, now the African Americans. Each group starts as outsiders, whom the insiders […]

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This Week in Diversity: There’s an app for that

July 16, 2010 – 10:30 am

Well, it’s HOT, and it seems like the urge to stay out of the heat has led to lots of thoughtful conversations around the web this week. We begin with a new take on To Kill a Mockingbird, the classic by Harper Lee that celebrated its 50th Anniversary just this week. While it’s been taught […]

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Poll: Picture Books with Same-Sex Parents

June 14, 2010 – 11:45 am

We’re all about diversity here at Lee & Low, and we know that diversity means more than just race. It’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, and we’re wondering what our readers would think about picture books portraying the growing number of families led by same-sex parents—would you buy or review picture books featuring […]

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This Week in Diversity: Arizona, the Supreme Court, and Crayons

May 14, 2010 – 3:29 pm

Before we launch into this week’s roundup of race and diversity links, I’d like to make a plea: help your local library. Many around the country are facing massive budget cuts, so let your elected officials know that your library is important. New Yorkers, NYPL has a handy form to help you contact your City […]

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