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By Diane Patrick and Calvin Reid | May 14, 2021 The power of literature to address the history of the oppression of Indigenous peoples in North America and chart their futures has never been more important. As the U.S. experiences a wave of popular concern about social justice issues, publishers are really just beginning to embrace a growing number of works on such topics as ancestral domains and land rights of Indigenous communities; preservation of their languages, traditions, rituals, and cultural knowledge; and, just as important, the reimagining of their lives through th...

Copy shortlink: Twenty years ago, I picked up a blank book and began tracking seasonal events in our neighborhood. I've never stopped. In late winter, I document the first time a sunrise is accompanied by cardinal song and the first afternoon punctuated by a steady drip of meltwater. I await the green haze of new leaves across the landscape in spring, and the flicker of bats feeding on insects at dusk. Summer brings fledgling birds begging at the feeder and muskrats zigzagging through the wetland. Before I know it, the yard is buried in dry leaves. Ice has spread acros...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Miriam at the River and Beni’s War from Kar-Ben Publishing® Receive Association of Jewish ... Lerner Publishing GroupJanuary 25, 2021 GMT Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Miriam at the River, a picture book written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Khoa Le, and Beni’s War, a middle-grade novel by Tammar Stein, have been named named a Sydney Taylor Honor Book and Sydney Taylor Notable Book, respectively. Kar-Ben Publishing®, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™, publ...

Author Jenna Grodzicki. COURTESY PHOTO  The sometimes weird and sometimes spectacular adornments of wild creatures inspired author Jenna Grodzicki of Chatham to write “Wild Style: Amazing Animal Adornments” (Millbrook Press, 2021). “Hats. Jewelry. Makeup. Perfume. People wear accessories every day. But humans aren’t the only ones with a flair for fashion,” Grodzicki writes. For wild creatures, “The right look, though, can make all the difference.” While the illustrated book is billed as being for ages 4 to 9 or grades two to three, readers of any age might enjoy the book and Gr...

Children's Publishers Choose Their Favorite Reads of 2020 Compiled by Diane Roback | Dec 22, 2020 We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year, frontlist or backlist, and what they loved about it. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published. Happy reading! Jamie Tan, senior publicist, Candlewick Press I’ve been craving the kind of books that I would devour in high school: floppy backlist paperbacks that are easy to hold in one hand while snacking with th...