Lee & Low Books will be at the School Library Journal Day of Dialog and the Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend and we’d love to see you!
We’ll have a table at the Day of Dialog on Friday, September 15 and at the Brooklyn Book Festival (booth #20) on Saturday, September 16. If you’ll be at either, please stop by and say hello! And catch our authors Tony Medina and Emma Otheguy at some great events:
It’s that time of year again! The annual American Library Association conference is just around the corner and we would love to meet you! If you will be in Chicago this year, come visit us in booth #3115 where we’ll give away ARCs, bookmarks, posters, postcards, and other free swag!
Next week we’ll be attending the Educational Thought Leaders’ Conference at Kean University in New Jersey. Will you be there? If so, please stop by to say hello! Continue reading
The Texas Library Association Annual Conference is next week and we’re so excited to meet everyone! The conference takes place in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and LEE & LOW will be Booth #2724!
This week we’ll be attending the NABE (National Association for 
Bilingual Educators) Conference in Dallas, Texas. Will you be there? If so, please stop by booth #505 in the exhibit hall to say hello! Here are some of the great books and collections we’re excited to share there: Continue reading
Last week, Tu Books Publisher Stacy Whitman spoke at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English (KATE) conference about why and how to use diverse books in the classroom. In this blog post, we share some highlights from her presentation that may be helpful for readers across the country. Continue reading
I’m getting married in a little under two weeks, and a few nights ago I had my first anxiety dream about my upcoming wedding. It went like this: my wedding and the American Library Association Annual Conference (ALA) had been scheduled for the same time. I was arranging books at our exhibit booth in my wedding dress, and when I tried to leave to head to the altar, an author appeared for her signing. She demanded that I stay and fix the lighting, which she said was not flattering. I woke up in a cold sweat.
It doesn’t take Freud to figure out where this dream came from. As any marketing person can tell you, conferences take an immense amount of work, planning, and mental energy. As it turns out, weddings do too. The good news is that I’ve learned a lot in my eight years of planning and attending conferences that helped me stay sane throughout the wedding planning process—and there’s a lot that wedding planning can teach about conferences, too. Here are a few tips that I’ve found to be true for both events: Continue reading
It’s that time of year again! The annual ALA conference is just around the corner and we would love to meet you! We’ll be in at Booth #1469!
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The Texas Library Association Annual Conference is next week and we’re so excited to meet everyone! The conference takes place in the George R. Brown Convention Center and LEE & LOW will be Booth #1746!
See below for our signing schedule as well as a few other events that our authors and illustrators will be participating in: Continue reading
Over the last few years, we have seen the number of panels about diversity skyrocket. It wasn’t long ago that an all-white BookCon lineup inspired the creation of We Need Diverse Books; now, a few years later, we constantly come across conference lineups with multiple diversity-focused panels (take the upcoming YALSA Symposium for young adult librarians, as just one example). Many regional and national conferences have adopted diversity as a conference theme, and we have been invited to speak at multiple Diversity Summits, Diversity Days, and more.
This is a terrific thing. Panels are an important way to keep the focus on this topic and to educate the movers and shakers within all different industries about why diversity matters. The high number of panels focused on diversity is a good indicator that more people are thinking about these issues than ever before.
But here’s the thing about panels: just putting the word “diversity” on a panel and hoping it does the job isn’t enough. Continue reading
