2023 Starred Reviews and Best of the Year Titles

Lee & Low Books is committed to meeting the needs of educators by providing award-winning, multicultural books for today’s classrooms, along with the resources educators need to make meaningful use of each book.
The success and popularity of Lee & Low Books in classrooms inspired the idea of creating a space for educators to collaborate and share best practices and lesson ideas.
With this in mind, Lee & Low Books has developed lesson plans and teacher’s guides that support classroom instruction in reading strategies and complex content and themes. Designed by educators for educators, the Curriculum Corner offers a variety of resources to support small- and whole-group instruction, home-school connections, and national and state standards.
Did you recently win a grant that you need diverse, culturally responsive books for? Are you currently in the process of applying for a grant and would like to use Lee & Low Books as a resource or vendor for multicultural literature? Our expert team will help you satisfy whatever themes or needs that are particular for your specific project. Please note that we do not award grants. Reach out to grants@leeandlow.com to learn more about your customized list and get started!
Lee & Low Books is proud to be the nation’s largest publisher of multicultural children’s books. With the launch of our new Diverse Reading Leveled Bookrooms, districts across the country will now be able to bring more equity, inclusion, and diversity into their leveled and content-based bookrooms. We will work with you to ensure your students have access to hundreds of award-winning, culturally responsive, contemporary books at the levels they need. Email: bookrooms@leeandlow.com
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Our Teacher's Guides and Lesson Plans are developed by professional educators and offer extensive teaching ideas, curricular connections, and activities that can be adapted to many different educational settings.
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Lee & Low Books is proud to be the nation’s largest publisher of multicultural children’s books. With the launch of our new Reading Recovery® Bebop Books collections, schools across the country will now be able to bring more equity, inclusion, and diversity into their classroom libraries. We will work with you to ensure your students have access to scores of authentic, culturally responsive, contemporary books at the levels they need.
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Social justice and a focus on social activism have become an essential component of many classrooms, schools, and curricula. For three decades, Lee & Low Books has been a leader in the movement for more diversity: in books, behind the scenes, in classrooms and libraries, and beyond.
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Whether virtual or in-person, Lee & Low Books is open to working with educators, librarians, event coordinators, etc. to help coordinate author and/or illustrator visits!
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Lee & Low Books is committed to supporting educators and families in virtual, distance, and/or home learning. Whether you are a teacher, a homeschooling parent, or a librarian, you'll find educator resources on this page to support your work as well as answers to our most commonly asked questions regarding distance learning.
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Lee & Low's popular downloadable diverse book lists are curated by literacy experts and offer recommended books for social emotional learning (SEL), trauma-informed education, social activism, summer reading, and more. Each list is broken down by age range and updated regularly to support ongoing learning. Want more customization? Get in touch.
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¡Bienvenidos! Aquí podrás encontrar recursos en español y bilingües que apoyen iniciativas educativas tanto en el aula como en el hogar. Estamos comprometidos a servir a la comunidad hispanohablante con libros, guías de estudio y videos de calidad y con un español auténtico.
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Introducing the New English Learner Resource for Early Childhood from the American Institutes for Research
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2023 Starred Reviews and Best of the Year Titles
Meet Lee & Low Books at NCTE 2023!
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