An independent children's book publisher focusing on diversity. It is the company's mission to meet the need for stories that all children can identify with and enjoy.
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Lee & Low Books Office is closing early so we can all get out of the city for Thanksgiving! Enjoy your holiday, everyone. Personally, I plan to eat my weight in stuffing before I come back.
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Two days ’till Thanksgiving! There’s lots to love about this holiday, and some of it doesn’t even have to do with food (although…pies! stuffing! MORE PIES!).
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Sharon can hardly believe the news. Di Di, her two-year-old brother, is being taken to China to spend a year with their grandparents. Why can’t he go to day care, or be watched by a babysitter when Mama goes back to work? Sharon wonders. But her parents say it is better for relatives to take care of little children.
by Andrea Cheng, illustrated by Nicole Wong
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Lee & Low Books A salad of links! Nothing like a healthy dose of thinking to prepare one for Thanksgiving.
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I know, I know, salad isn’t a food we usually associate with Thanksgiving. (Stuffing is not salad. Nor is green bean casserole.) But in my reading this week, I came across a quote disagreeing with the concept of America as a melting pot. ...
Lee & Low Books Heritage Months: Good Thing or Bad Thing?
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First, celebrations are in order for both Soichiro Honda and Isamu Noguchi, who share a November 17th birthday. It’s a nice little coincidence that two very different creative minds from Japan should share the same birthday.
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"'At 0.02 cents per day it works out at $745.00 for 51
years,' the letter said. 'I've sent along a few more dollars in case
the rates changed.'"
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The phrase “the check is in the mail” took on a whole new meaning for Phoenix, AZ, high school librarian Georgette Bordine, who recently received a surprise package in the mail containing two books belonging to the Camelback High School library—which were 51 years overdue.
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In the noisy streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, another busy morning is beginning as Yasmin rides to work in her father’s rattling rickshaw. Yasmin longs to go to school so she can learn to read, but her family needs the money she and her sister earn at the brickyard to help keep the rice bag full and the roof repaired.
As ...she hammers away at bricks day after day, Yasmin dreams of a different life. If she could read, she could be anything she wants to be when she grows up. One night Yasmin has an idea—a secret plan that will bring her one step closer to making her dream a reality.
Book coming April 2010. Written by Ann Malaspina, illustrated by Doug Chayka.
Lee & Low Books Did you see us featured on Independent Publisher Online Magazine? Check it out!
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The North American continent is a very culturally diverse place that’s becoming more so at a very rapid pace. The first African-American U.S. president has been elected, the first Latina U.S. Supreme Court ...
Lee & Low Books This Week in Diversity we've got more casting issues, interracial adoption, language acquisition, Navajo code talkers, and, of course, Sesame Street.
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Friday afternoon: time to read up on diversity around the web! This week we have a rather miscellaneous batch of links for you, so dig in.
Lee & Low Books Starting a new series on the blog: videos! talking about race! We start off with "How to Tell People They Sound Racist." Or, how NOT to tell people, as the case may be...
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But we also like the spoken word, so in addition to great posts and articles on race and diversity, we’re going to be sharing some great videos we’ve found around the web.
Lee & Low Books After a notably awesome book launch for THE EAST-WEST HOUSE, Christy Hale shares some excellent advice with us on how she made it happen:
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Today I am conducting a joint blog with author/illustrator, Christy Hale. We are going to talk about the nuts and bolts behind planning a book launch. A successful book launch doesn’t just happen all by itself. ...
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Tim’s birthday is just a week away, and more than anything he wants a skateboard. But money is tight, and Tim knows his family cannot afford to buy him a board.
As Tim ponders how he might earn money for a skateboard, he hears The Can Man down the street collecting empty soft drink cans. The clang of the cans in the ho...meless man’s cart gives Tim an idea. He will collect cans too, and cash them in for the redemption money. By the end of the week, Tim has almost reached his goal—until a couple of chance encounters with The Can Man change everything.
Art by Craig Orback, for The Can Man by Laura E. Williams, coming March 2010.
Lee & Low Books It's that time of the week again! South Korea, England, American music, American sports: melting pots.
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Let’s start with South Korea, which is experiencing a clash between its historical ideas of ethnic homogeneity and its increasing immigrant population. A New York Times article draws attention to both the prevalence of racism in South Korea and the new efforts that are being made to stem it. ...
Lee & Low Books Clever, clever co-workers celebrating the Yankees' World Series win with Photoshop...
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Not exactly how illustrator Dom Lee originally envisioned it. But hey, changes must be made to reflect our changing world, right?
Lee & Low Books E-Books: love 'em or hate 'em? Tell us!
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We’ve been thinking about E-Books a lot lately. For the first time ever, we have a book available as an E-Book: Alicia Afterimage over at Scribd.
