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2017 New Visions Award Winners
Author Olivia Abtahi and Luisana Duarte Armendáriz have won the fifth annual New Visions Award for their novels, Twin Flames and The Regent Enigma, respectively.
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The Role of Cultural Experts and Sensitivity Readers
After her recent interview about sensitivity readers in the New York Times, Editorial Director and Publisher of Tu Books, Stacy Whitman, further discusses the role of cultural experts and sensitivity readers and the important part they play in the...
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10 Children’s Books That Celebrate World Water Day
Wednesday, March 22nd is World Water Day, an internationally recognized day started by the United Nations in 1992 to celebrate water and those who labor in water. To honor one of Earth’s most precious resources, we’ve gathered ten titl...
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Poetry Friday: Animal Poems of the Iguazú/Animalario del Iguazú
April is National Poetry Month! All month long we’ll be celebrating by posting some of our favorite poems for Poetry Friday. To celebrate Earth Day, for today’s Poetry Friday, we chose a poem from Animal Poems of the Iguazú/Animalario del Iguazú, ...
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Seven Children’s Books to Celebrate World Water Day
World Water Day is March 22nd. It’s an internationally recognized day to celebrate water and those who labor in water, started by the United Nations in 1992. The first World Water Day was celebrated in 1993.
Explore the importance of water with th...
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Reading for the Earth: Ultimate Earth Day Resource Roundup
Earth Day, April 22nd is right around the corner, and we at Lee & Low are some pretty big fans of this blue planet we live on. So, whether you choose to plant a tree or pledge to better uphold the 3 R’s -reduce, reuse, recycle- we are celebrat...
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Happy Earth Day from Lee & Low Books!
In an era of great global change, it’s more important than ever to take a moment today to think about how the Earth sustains us and how we can help to sustain it in return.
We asked author Jan Reynolds, whose work we have been showcasing thr...
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Raising Global Citizens: Jan Reynolds Author Study
Today’s world is smaller than ever, and as technology continues to advance it will only get smaller. Raising students for success means teaching them how to be global citizens, emphasizing cultural literacy and geoliteracy, and exposing them...
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Interview with Jan Reynolds, Who Circumnavigated Mount Everest
Jan Reynolds is a writer, photographer, and adventurer who has written over fourteen nonfiction books for children about her travels. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including National Geographic, The New York Times, and Outside Mag...
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Amazing Places TG
Lee & Low Books Amazing Places Teachers Guide
1
Classroom Guide for
AMAZING PLACES
Edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by Christy Hale, Chris
Soentpiet
Reading Level
*Reading Level: Grades 45
Interest Level: ...
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Dia Toolkit LEE & LOW
www.leeandlow.com 1
Book List for El dia de los ninos/El dia de los libros
(Children's Day/Book Day)
Cora Cooks Pancit
written by Dorina Lazo Gilmore
illustrated by Kristi Valiant
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/2840
Cora loves be...
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Summer Reading 2016 Complete List
Illustration copyright by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
leeandlow.com Lee & Low Books
Grades PreK-2
Junas Jar written by Jane Bah...
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Summer Reading Grades 3-5
leeandlow.com Lee & Low Books
Grades 3-5
Poems in the Attic written by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/2...
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Densho Constitutional Issues for Baseball Saved Us
Constitutional Issues
Civil Liberties, Individuals, and the Common Good
Curriculum and Resource Guide
Essential Question:
How can the United States balance
the rights of individuals with the common good?
Nati...
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Lakota Winter Counts teachers' guide for Crazy Horse's Vision
LAKOTA WINTER COUNTS
THE TEACHERS GUIDE
NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHIVES SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Acknowledgements
The following people were instrumental in the development of this teachers guide
and deserve special th...
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Pura Belpre Article from CENTRO Journal from NCTE
Pura Belpre Lights the Storytellers
Candle: Reframing the Legacy of
a Legend and What it Means for
the Fields of Latino/a Studies and
Childrens Literature
marilisa jimenez-garcia
The author (mj329@hunter.cuny.edu) is a researcher at the Cente...
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Weaving the Tapestry of Life by The Alma Project
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In partnership with Metropolitan State College of Denver
Weaving the Tapestry
of Life:
Exploring Guatemalan Culture thro...
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Magic Windows from University of Alabama
Magic
Windows:
Exploring
culture through
story and art
Book discussion
and activity
guide
Project design: Lindsay Harris &
Haley Rugger
LS 590 Multicultural Literacy Programming for Children, Teens, & Families
University o...
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Summer of the Mariposa's Teacher Guide New
1Teachers Guide copyright 2017 LEE & LOW BOOKS. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to share and adapt for personal and educational use. For questions, comments, and/or more information, please contact us at general@leeandlow.com. Visit us...
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The Storyteller's Candle by University of Alabama
Share a Story, Light Your World
Comparte una historia, ilumina tu mundo
The Storytellers Candle by Lucia Gonzalez. Illustrated
by Lulu Delacre. San Francisco: Childrens Book Press,
2008.
All over the world libraries are dedicated to...
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