The Gift of Hope: Guadalupe Garcia McCall on first books

May 8, 2013 – 9:00 am

Author/poet Guadalupe Garcia McCall reveals how the mission of First Book, to get low-income children their very first book, is a reality that many children face, including herself when she was growing up.

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The Origins of the Coretta Scott King Award

February 25, 2013 – 11:56 am

Dr. Henrietta M. Smith, Professor Emerita and the first African-American professor at the University of South Florida, School of Information shares her memories of how the Coretta Scott King Award began.

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Happy birthday, Richard Wright

September 4, 2012 – 4:47 pm

Author Richard Wright was born on September 4, 1908 on a plantation in rural Mississippi. He attended school through the first few weeks of high school before he dropped out to work, but always maintained a deep love of reading. As a black man in the South at that time, he was not allowed to […]

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Diverse Dystopias: A Book List

August 30, 2012 – 1:50 pm

In honor of the upcoming release of our new YA anthology, Diverse Energies, we thought we’d put together a list of dystopias with diversity. For the purposes of this list, our definition of diversity is: 1.) A book with a main character of color (not just secondary characters), or 2.) A book written by an […]

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ALA 2012: What I learned & a recap in photos

July 6, 2012 – 12:23 pm

We had a great time this year at the American Library Association in Anaheim! It’s been a while since we were out on the West Coast, and it was fun to be able to see old friends who we haven’t seen in a while and make some new ones, too. Attendance was high, enthusiasm was […]

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ALA 2012: California-Bound

June 8, 2012 – 2:31 pm

Wasn’t it *just* March? Hard to believe we’re already getting ready for ALA Annual in just a few short weeks. The best part of ALA is always meeting people face to face, and we hope many of you will come find us at Booth #2436 to say hello in person. We’ll be giving out ARCs […]

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Come See Our Authors at TLA!

April 17, 2012 – 6:03 pm

We won’t be at the Texas Library Association annual conference this week, but if you’ll be there you can still connect with two fantastic Lee & Low authors! Don Tate, author of It Jes’ Happened and illustrator of books like Summer Sun Risin’, will be a keynote speaker at the Black Caucus Roundtable (April 19, […]

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ALA 2011: Laissez les bon temps roulez!

June 21, 2011 – 5:59 pm

We’re getting excited to head down to New Orleans this week for the American Library Association Annual Conference. New Orleans has always been one of my favorite cities, and I’m looking forward to eating piles of beignets meeting many awesome librarians while we’re down there. If you’ll be there too, please stop by booth #1132 […]

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Winning a Big One

February 2, 2011 – 3:11 pm

Winning a major book award is surprising every time it happens. Like all publishers, we pretend not to pay attention to the mock award committee announcements that multiply in our inboxes each December and early January.

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This Week in Diversity: Awards Edition!

January 21, 2011 – 6:28 pm

We took a short break from blogging in the wake of last week’s big event in the children’s book world: the American Library Association’s annual announcement of their Youth Media Awards—or, as some like to call it, “The Oscars of Children’s Literature.” No outlandish outfits at these Oscars, but a few of our books do […]

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