Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Season of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day
Educator Lindsay Barrett offers suggestions for addressing Mother’s Day and Father’s Day in the classroom.
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Happy Mother’s Day: Honoring the Mothers and Grandmothers in Our Lives
A brief history and round-up of LEE & LOW titles for Mother’s Day.
Mother’s Books
With Mother’s Day coming up next month, we’ve been thinking about mothers in books. There are plenty of mothers in picture books, but they are rarely involved in children’s novels; I remember reading an essay by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (sadly, I can’t find it online—it was in the March 2009 Horn Book Magazine) in which … Continue reading Mother’s Books
New Releases: Breaking to the Beat and The Moonlit Vine & Claro de luna
Today, we are celebrating two exciting book releases: Breaking to the Beat! by Linda J. Acevedo, illustrated by Frank Morrison and The Moonlit Vine & Claro de luna by Elizabeth Santiago!
Support the LGBTQIA+ Community for Pride Month
June is Pride month, and this year we are not only celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community, we are standing up and speaking out against hate. According to a report from the American Library Association, the number of demands to ban or restrict library materials nearly doubled in 2022. Of the 2,571 unique titles targeted for censorships, the majority were written by or about members of the LGBTQIA+ community and people of color. This cannot go ignored. This Pride month, support the LGBTQIA+ community with your voices and with your dollars.
Multilingual Educator Q&A with Guadalupe García McCall: Author, Professor, and Educator
This Q&A with author and former teacher Guadalupe García McCall and Lee & Low Literacy Specialist Michelle Fuentes originally appeared in the CABE 2023 Edition of Multilingual Educator. Echoes of Grace is available wherever books are sold!
Books for AAPI Heritage Month
As we enter Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we want to honor and celebrate AAPI creators and stories both new and old. Read books by AAPI authors and illustrators, uplift AAPI voices, and support AAPI activists and organizers—not just this month, but all year round.
Nonfiction for International Women’s Day 2023
Happy International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month to all who identify as a women! Share these stories with readers of all ages as you highlight modern and historic women this month.
Black Was the Ink Connects Past and Present
This post by Michelle Coles originally appeared on We Need Diverse Books in November 2021. Black Was the Ink is available wherever books are sold!
The Reality of Rural Blackness: A Guest Post by Nisi Shawl
In this guest post, author Nisi Shawl invites readers to experience rural Black life in their middle-grade debut novel. Speculation is available wherever books are sold!