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News Bites: Help Hurricane Sandy’s Victims
Books for devastated libraries: Hurricane Sandy devastated scores of schools and libraries across the East Coast. You can help provide books for these libraries and children in need by making a tax...
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Disaster Relief Programs and Publishers Offer Many Ways to Help Schools and...
First Book staff and volunteers unload boxes of new books at a warehouse in lower Manhattan. Photo by First Book (This story was last updated at 9:32 a.m. on November 26.) Those wishing to help school...
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Simon & Schuster Fall Kids | Preview Peek
Simon & Schuster’s recent preview of its fall children’s books in New York City was a unique and unprecedented opportunity for celebration this year, as librarians and teachers gathered during the...
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Simon & Schuster Spring Kids 2014 | Preview Peek
Simon & Schuster’s spring book preview this week in New York City featured both rising and long-shining stars of the book world. Jason Reynolds, poet and debut author of the urban teen tale When I...
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SLJ Talks to National Book Award Winner Cynthia Kadohata
Photo by Brian Davis There was no predicting the 2013 National Book Award in the category of Young People’s Literature, the field was that strong. But when the winner was announced, few who had read...
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Children’s Book Author and Toymaker Tim Kehoe Dies at 43
Timothy Kehoe, author of The Unusual Mind of Vincent Shadow (2009) and its sequel The Top Secret Toys (2012, both Little, Brown), died unexpectedly in St. Paul, MN, at age 43 on February 27, reports...
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Lee & Low Wins INDIEFAB Award; “Selma for Students”| News Bites
Honors, Prizes Jason Low, publisher of Lee & Low Books. Lee & Low Books was named the INDIEFAB Publisher of the Year by Foreward magazine, recognizing the minority-owned company’s commitment to...
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Today, Simon & Schuster announced a new children’s imprint, Salaam Reads, and its intention to provide fun, compelling books for Muslim children that are also entertaining and enriching for a...
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S. & S.’s Preview Yields a Bountiful Crop of Summer 2016 Books
I will start with the best, instead of saving it for last. My three favorites of this publishers preview were, in no particular order: the picture book Sleepyheads (Aug.) by Sandra J. Howatt. It has...
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