ALA Award Winners!

Wonderful news from the January 25 session of the ALA Midwinter Meeting, an annual convocation, held virtually this year, dear to the nation’s library community. One of its most anticipated highlights is the bestowal of numerous prizes and recognition for previous year’s children’s and young adult fiction and nonfiction deemed to be of resonant literary and cultural importance. Chief among them is the Newbery Medal, awarded yearly to “the most distinguished American children’s book.” This year’s Newbery Medal went to WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER by Tae Keller.

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PYR to Release Special Edition of “The Hill We Climb,” Read by Amanda Gorman at the Presidential Inauguration

Due to overwhelming demand, Penguin Young Readers will publish a special hardcover edition of “The Hill We Climb,” the poem written and delivered by Amanda Gorman at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.  At age 22, Ms. Gorman is the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration.

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Presenting Our New International Elementary Education Catalog 2020!

Dear Parents and Educators, There is something special about books for young readers—books that will entertain and enlighten; books that will challenge, yet consume. Our new International Elementary Education Catalog contains page after page of outstanding selections from the Penguin Random House family of publishers, chosen especially to support you and the children you teach! 

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Graphic Novel, Manga & Gaming Catalogs and Order Forms June–December 2020

Monthly catalogs, order forms, and Edelweiss collections for our Graphic Novels, Manga, and Gaming-related titles for June through December 2020 now appear here on PRHInternationalSales.com. These monthly catalogs include adult and children’s titles from Archie Comic Publications, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Eaglemoss, IDW Publishing, Kodansha, New York Review Comics, Pantheon Graphic Library, Square Enix,

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Jacqueline Woodson Wins the Hans Christian Anderson Award

Penguin Random House author Jacqueline Woodson was named the 2020 Recipient of the Hans Christian Anderson Award! The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children’s books. Given every other year by IBBY, the award recognize lifelong achievement and is presented to an author and an

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