The 2019 Estela & Raúl Mora Award Winner and Honorees
Posted In:Focus on First Book
October 3, 2019 In honor of her parents, The Estela and Raúl Mora Award was established in 2000 by renowned author and poet Pat Mora. The award honors libraries and programs that celebrate Children’s Day, Book Day, El día de los niños, El día de los libros (also known… Read More
First Book Launches STEMtober to Highlight New Educational STEM Resources
Posted In:Focus on First Book
October 1, 2019 When you hear the name, “First Book,” STEM resources like coding robots might not be the first (or second) thing you think of. The First Book community of educators know us mostly for our collection of high quality, new, free or low-cost books. But because we aim to provide the… Read More
Building Inclusive Classrooms with YASMIN en Español
Posted In:Author Voices, Our Bookshelf
September 26, 2019 Today’s blog post is written by guest blogger Saadia Faruqi, author of the YASMIN series of early reader titles. Read More
First Book Staff Recommends: Books That Changed Us for the Better
Posted In:Our Bookshelf
September 24, 2019 Every month, First Book's team of children's & young adult literature experts on staff (or as they like to call themselves, THE BOOK NERDS) choose their favorite titles from the Marketplace. September's theme is Books that Changed Us for the Better. Read More
First Book Research & Insights: Support for Toxic Stress of Poverty Most Important Learning Tool for Kids in Need
Posted In:First Book Research & Insights, Press Room
September 23, 2019 
All I Ever Wanted… Stories of Children of the Incarcerated
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September 19, 2019 "All I Ever Wanted…" is a very special book, written by nine young people with parents in prison and one older woman looking back, with the goal of helping others to know how it feels to go through the rites of passage of childhood and adolescence without a father or mother, and how it feels to suddenly find out the truth. Read More
Q&A with Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Author Partner, Tom Angleberger
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September 17, 2019 What could be better than pizza and books? For us at First Book, not much! Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! program will provide 10,000 books to classrooms for the 2019-2020 school year via First Book to encourage students to find joy in reading. We spoke with this year’s BOOK IT! author… Read More
How Educators Use “All Are Welcome” in the Classroom
Posted In:For Educators, Our Bookshelf
September 12, 2019 From arts and craft projects that inspire students to own their uniqueness to conversations of diversity and inclusion, several educators have used All Are Welcome to create opportunities for students to celebrate inclusivity within their community. Read More
Get Ready for PETE WEEK! WIN a package of Pete-tastic Prizes!
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September 8, 2019 In honor of the release of the newest Pete the Cat book, Pete the Cat & the Perfect Pizza Party, we’ve brought together our partners to create a fun & delicious prize package to give away every day next week – or as we like to call it – PETE WEEK!… Read More
First Book Partners with Walter Payton Man of the Year Chris Long Donates Nearly 80,000 Books to Kids through First Quarter for Literacy Initiative
Posted In:Our Partners, Press Room
September 5, 2019