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This book celebrates the life of Jimmy “Wink” Winkfield, a little-known sports hero. Born in 1882 to an African American sharecropping family in Kentucky, Jimmy grew up loving horses. The large, powe...

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2005 New Voices Award Winners
Don Tate of Austin, Texas and Zetta Elliot of Baton Rouge, Louisiana have been chosen as our two Honor winners for the Sixth Annual New Voices Award.

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Author Charlotte Sun and Mary Louise Sanchez have won the fourth annual New Visions Award for their historical middle-grade novels, Escape from Tiananmen Square, and The Wind Called My Name, respectively.

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Author Monica Zepeda has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Boys of the Beast. Michelle Jones Coles’ manuscript Woke received the New Visions Award Honor.

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Black History Month Book Giveaway, Book Lists, and Resources
February is Black History Month, which was created to remember the important people and events in the history of the African diaspora and to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our ...

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This book celebrates the life of Jimmy “Wink” Winkfield, a little-known sports hero. Born in 1882 to an African American sharecropping family in Kentucky, Jimmy grew up loving horses. The large, powe...

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2019 New Visions Award Winner
Author Tracy Occomy Crowder has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key.

2014 New Voices Award Winner
Andrea J. Loney of Inglewood, California, is the winner of the company’s fifteenth annual New Voices Award.

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Nicki Jay won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, The Marassa: BirthLifeDeath Book I.

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One of your most powerful tools as a writer is not your vocabulary, your mastery of grammar or even your fancy computer -- it's your voice.

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Lee & Low Books is one of the few children's book publishers still willing to consider unsolicited material. This means that rather than limiting our submissions to those from agents or previously published authors and illustrators, we welcome mat...

2005 New Voices Award Winners
Don Tate of Austin, Texas and Zetta Elliot of Baton Rouge, Louisiana have been chosen as our two Honor winners for the Sixth Annual New Voices Award.

2016 New Visions Award Winners
Author Charlotte Sun and Mary Louise Sanchez have won the fourth annual New Visions Award for their historical middle-grade novels, Escape from Tiananmen Square, and The Wind Called My Name, respectively.

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Author Monica Zepeda has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Boys of the Beast. Michelle Jones Coles’ manuscript Woke received the New Visions Award Honor.

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Black All Around New Bebop 2016
leeandlow.com Guided Reading Level: I Black All Around! Guided Reading with BLACK ALL AROUND! Guided Reading: I DRA: 16 Intervention: 16 written by Patricia Hubbell illustrated by Don Tate Overview: Join a young girl as she disco...

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"The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby" Teacher's Guide Synopsis This book celebrates the life of Jimmy “Wink” Winkfield, a little-known sports hero. Born in 1882 to an African American sharecropping family in Kentucky, Jimmy grew up loving horses. The large, powe...

2019 New Visions Award Winner Author Tracy Occomy Crowder has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key.

2014 New Voices Award Winner Andrea J. Loney of Inglewood, California, is the winner of the company’s fifteenth annual New Voices Award.

2021 New Visions Award Winners Nicki Jay won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, The Marassa: Birth*Life*Death Book I.

Finding Your Voice One of your most powerful tools as a writer is not your vocabulary, your mastery of grammar or even your fancy computer -- it's your voice.

The Submission Process: A Demystification Part I Lee & Low Books is one of the few children's book publishers still willing to consider unsolicited material. This means that rather than limiting our submissions to those from agents or previously published authors and illustrators, we welcome mat...

2005 New Voices Award Winners Don Tate of Austin, Texas and Zetta Elliot of Baton Rouge, Louisiana have been chosen as our two Honor winners for the Sixth Annual New Voices Award.

2016 New Visions Award Winners Author Charlotte Sun and Mary Louise Sanchez have won the fourth annual New Visions Award for their historical middle-grade novels, Escape from Tiananmen Square, and The Wind Called My Name, respectively.

2018 New Visions Award Winners Author Monica Zepeda has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Boys of the Beast. Michelle Jones Coles’ manuscript Woke received the New Visions Award Honor.

Black All Around New Bebop 2016 leeandlow.com Guided Reading Level: I Black All Around! Guided Reading with BLACK ALL AROUND! Guided Reading: I DRA: 16 Intervention: 16 written by Patricia Hubbell illustrated by Don Tate Overview: Join a young girl as she disco...

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"The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby" Teacher's Guide

Synopsis
This book celebrates the life of Jimmy “Wink” Winkfield, a little-known sports hero. Born in 1882 to an African American sharecropping family in Kentucky, Jimmy grew up loving horses. The large, powe...

2019 New Visions Award Winner
Author Tracy Occomy Crowder has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key.

2014 New Voices Award Winner
Andrea J. Loney of Inglewood, California, is the winner of the company’s fifteenth annual New Voices Award.

2021 New Visions Award Winners
Nicki Jay won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, The Marassa: BirthLifeDeath Book I.

Finding Your Voice
One of your most powerful tools as a writer is not your vocabulary, your mastery of grammar or even your fancy computer -- it's your voice.

The Submission Process: A Demystification Part I
Lee & Low Books is one of the few children's book publishers still willing to consider unsolicited material. This means that rather than limiting our submissions to those from agents or previously published authors and illustrators, we welcome mat...

2005 New Voices Award Winners
Don Tate of Austin, Texas and Zetta Elliot of Baton Rouge, Louisiana have been chosen as our two Honor winners for the Sixth Annual New Voices Award.

2016 New Visions Award Winners
Author Charlotte Sun and Mary Louise Sanchez have won the fourth annual New Visions Award for their historical middle-grade novels, Escape from Tiananmen Square, and The Wind Called My Name, respectively.

2018 New Visions Award Winners
Author Monica Zepeda has won the New Visions Award for her manuscript, Boys of the Beast. Michelle Jones Coles’ manuscript Woke received the New Visions Award Honor.

Black All Around New Bebop 2016
leeandlow.com Guided Reading Level: I Black All Around! Guided Reading with BLACK ALL AROUND! Guided Reading: I DRA: 16 Intervention: 16 written by Patricia Hubbell illustrated by Don Tate Overview: Join a young girl as she disco...

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