Roald Dahl teams up with Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Taika Waititi to present “James And The Giant Peach, With Taika And Friends”! This fundraising story-telling series will be told in 10 installments and will be released on the Roald Dahl YouTube channel every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm EST / 10 am PST.  

JOIN THE KNOPF DOUBLEDAY PUBLISHING GROUP NEXT WEEK:   TODAY: THURSDAY, MAY 28 #ShelfCare: Your photos of (or favorite merch from) a beloved Indie bookstore go up today! Post along with us by tagging your imprint of choice and using #ShelfCare – don’t forget to check our Instagram stories on Doubleday, Knopf, and Vintage/Anchor throughout the day. Thank you everyone who submitted!

Penguin Young Readers, Random House Children’s Books, and PBS KIDS today announced a special collaboration with former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, in support of the recently announced “Read Together, Be Together” Penguin Random House literacy initiative and PBS KIDS’ “Read-Along” effort on Facebook and YouTube. On Monday, April 20, at 12

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:

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

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

The program will offer 4 weeks of thematic games, activities, crafts, teaching recourses, and more, running Monday, April 27th through Friday, May 22nd. MARY POPE OSBORNE will also be hosting bi-weekly video events, introducing each week’s theme and answering reader questions every Monday and concluding each week with Friday storytimes. The program will feature some

RHCB ART SCHOOL is a new how-to drawing series on @RandomHouseKids Instagram with beloved illustrators on the Random House Children’s Books list. Launched on 4/3, Tad Hills kicked off the series with a how-to drawing video showcasing his two feathered friends, DUCK & GOOSE! During the videos RHCB Illustrators will give drawing lessons of characters

READ TOGETHER, BE TOGETHER is a literacy initiative launched jointly by the children’s divisions of Penguin Random House, together with PARENTS and First Book. The program kicks off with a virtual storytime program beginning today, to be hosted daily at 3PM EST  / 12PM PST, and featuring a roster of author and celebrity readers!  

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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

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