Penguin Virtual Events (through 6/6/2020)

Please check out below for Penguin’s virtual events next week!! Saturday, 5/30 at 5:00pm EST: Politics & Prose bookstore hosts Anthony DePalma, author of The Cubans. Join via Crowdcast. Saturday, 5/30 at 6:00pm EST/3:00pm PST: Vroman’s Bookstore hosts Jennifer Steil, author of Exile Music, and Janet Fitch.  Join via Crowdcast. Saturday, 5/30 at 6:00pm EST:

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Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Virtual Graduation Celebration!

Celebrate the Class of 2020! Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Virtual Graduation Celebration! Post a photo, donate a book! Help us donate 20,020 books to First Book! With graduation ceremonies nationwide canceled, graduates of all ages are missing a special and momentous occasion—be it pre-K, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school, college and beyond. To

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Johanna Basford Creates New Mini Coloring Book – Download for Free!

Penguin Books author Johanna Basford, universally recognized as “The Queen of Coloring,” has created a new 12-page mini coloring book, FLOURISH: A Mini Inky Adventure, which can be downloaded for free at www.johannabasford.com/flourish.    “There’s no escaping the chaos and fear Covid-19 is having on our world,” Basford says. “The global crisis is dark and scary. But in the wee

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PRH’s Digital Cookbook to Aid America’s Restaurants

In an effort to support America’s restaurant industry, Penguin Random House will publish FAMILY MEAL: Recipes from Our Community, a digital-only charitable cookbook, the proceeds from which will benefit restaurants and their workers.  The book will go on sale May 5, and is available for preorder now.   From the FAMILY MEAL introduction, Madeline McIntosh: “As a New Yorker,

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Underlined (Updated for week of 5/11)

Meet Underlined. The place where you can find everything you need to know about the best YA books, the coolest authors, and the latest trends.  This is also the spot to get book recommendations, access to exclusive content, and tons of pop-culture fun.  Underlined is a thoughtful, creative, and diverse community that believes there is a YA book

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Random House Introduces New Virtual Events Series (updated for week of 5/18/20

Random House is happy to introduce a new Virtual Events Series. Through a number of online-only events on the Random House Instagram page, authors will share information from their books—and their hearts—to help you get through the coming days. Whether you need cooking inspiration, tips on how to form new habits, a weekly dose of mindfulness, or

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Oliver Jeffers announces virtual story time on Instagram!!! (updated for week of 4/27/20)

Check in with Oliver Jeffers at 2pm EST/ 11am PST for story time (link below)!!   JOIN OLIVER JEFFERS NEXT MONDAY, April 27th at 2 PM EST/11 AM PST For an exclusive, one-time-only world premiere reading of his forthcoming book, WHAT WE’LL BUILD (Philomel; on sale October 6, 2020)   The video will be up

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Penguin Random House Open License Online Story Time and Classroom Read-Aloud Videos and Live Events

In order to encourage reading and classroom read-aloud experiences, and to support schools and public libraries forced to close by the escalating COVID-19 outbreak, Penguin Random House is permitting teachers, librarians and booksellers to create and share story time and read-aloud videos and live events, according to the following guidelines: For Teachers and Educators providing distance

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