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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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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Welcome Hearst Home!

Hearst Magazines has recently launched Hearst Home, a new illustrated lifestyle book imprint inspired by the media company’s portfolio of brands, along with Hearst Home Kids, which will publish children’s books. The new imprints, led by Hearst Books Vice President and Publisher Jacqueline Deval, will include cookbooks, diet, nutrition, health & wellness, decorating, pop culture

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Older, but Better, but Older

From the bestselling authors of How to be Parisian, Older, but Better, but Older has the playful wit, self deprecation and worldly advice we have come to expect from Caroline De Maigret and Sophie Mass, but now that advice is focused on the French woman’s mindset as she hurtles towards forty. Caroline and Sophie are back

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ALL-OF-A-KIND FAMILY HANUKKAH

A note from the author, Emily Jenkins, of All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah…   For this new picture book about Sydney Taylor’s beloved characters, I was honored to work again  with my long-time collaborator, Caldecott and Carle-winning  illustrator Paul  O. Zelinsky. He is amazing and did  huge amounts of historical research so that the book really takes

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