Spring 2025 Seasonal Showcase | Lee & Low Books
Guest post by Lee & Low Books, 2024 Silver Medallion Sponsor.
Join Lee & Low Books, the largest multicultural publisher of children’s books in the country, for our Spring 2025 Seasonal Showcase on Thursday, September 26 at 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT!
Learn about our upcoming spring picture books, chapter books, and young adult titles about everyone, for everyone. PLUS, hear from special guests Cheryl Thuesday (illustrator of Edie for Equality) and Kimm Topping (author of Generation Queer).
Cheryl “Ras” Thuesday (she/her) is an illustrator originally from London and who grew up in New Jersey. Her art style and love of vibrant colors are heavily influenced by her Caribbean and Asian heritage. Her book publications include Kind Like Marsha: Learning from LGBTQ+ Leaders and Willis Watson Is a Wannabe. Ras lives in the tristate area. You can see more of her work at rasillustration.com.
Kimm Topping (they/them) is a writer, educator, historian, and artist. As the founder of Lavender Education, they lead a national program that celebrates LGBTQIA+ history through arts and education. Generation Queer is Kimm’s first full-length book and is the first collection of illustrated biographies about LGBTQIA+ youth activists. You can learn more about Kimm at kimmtopping.com.
GIVEAWAY!
Attend the presentation live on September 26 and be automatically entered for a chance to win a set of Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) of our Spring 2025 middle grade and young adult novels:
- The Doomsday Detectives: How Walter and Luis Alvarez Solved the Mystery of Dinosaur Extinction by Cindy Jensen-Elliott & illustrated by Theo Nicole Lorenz
- The Reel Wish by Yamile Saied Méndez
- Flying in Colors by Padma Prasad Reddeppa
- Generation Queer: Stories of Youth Organizers, Artists, and Educators by Kimm Topping & illustrated by Anshika Khullar
An email with the Zoom link to access the webinar will be sent the day before the live event and then again an hour before the start time.
Attendees will have the ability to enable Closed Captioning in the Zoom platform. ASL interpretation will be provided by Travis Haigler & SignNexus.
Following the showcase, all registrants will receive a link to the recording with captioning burned on.
Missed our Fall 2024 Showcase with YA authors Olivia Abtahi & Isabel Quintero? Click here to catch up on what’s new & notable from Lee & Low.
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