Live Oak Media

  • Children’s Book Day 2020

    Children’s Book Day 2020

    We continue to update this post as more publishers provide free resources for those impacted by COVID-19 and local stay-at-home guidance. We are living in a worldwide period of school and library closures, social distancing, and the search for activities to keep kids engaged and as active as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. AND we’re […]

  • On the Road to Awards

    On the Road to Awards

    We love those finalists lists as much as we love the ultimate winners.  Why? Shortlists give us nuance and hit a lot of possibilities. We think winning is great! We also think recognition for being in the run-up to the ultimate announcements gives readers and listeners a lot of riches. To celebrate this season’s announcements […]

  • Lots of Winning Titles for Multicultural Book Day

    Lots of Winning Titles for Multicultural Book Day

    January 31 is Multicultural Book Day and that arrives this year on the heels of the American Library Association’s 2020 announcements of youth media awards.  Among the rich array of picture books, novels, youth audience nonfiction, audiobooks, and apps, authors and illustrators, and children’s literature experts who received plaudits this year, we think these would enhance […]

  • Celebrate Children’s Book Week 2019 with Book Formats Less than 100 Years Old

    Although Children’s Book Week now marks a century of calling attention to the diversity and splendor of all that kids and caretakers can find on library and bookshop shelves, there are some great book formats that weren’t even around back in 1919–or even in 1929. It was just a year or two after 1929, however, […]

  • World Kid Lit Month Picks from the Western Hemisphere

    World Kid Lit Month Picks from the Western Hemisphere

    This is the second in a series of four posts with which we ask you to join us in celebrating World Kid Lit Month (#WorldKidLit on social media). As we continue to celebrate World Kid Lit Month with a cavalcade of kids’ books from international publishers, we make our next stop in the Western Hemisphere, […]

  • Listen Up: We’ve Got (Another) Winner!

    Listen Up: We’ve Got (Another) Winner!

      The 24thannual Audie Awards ceremony, held 4 March 2019, made one of our publishers a star—again! The Audies are the premier awards program in the United States recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment. In the category of Young Listeners, Live Oak Media was represented by two of the five finalists. Esquivel! Space Age Sound […]

  • Books for All of Us from All Around Our World

    Books for All of Us from All Around Our World

    We expect North American readers are familiar with several of the publishers we bring to conferences. From Canada, there’s Pajama Press, for example, a publisher who has received acclaim from many associations and for a variety of areas of endeavor. Also from Canada, we bring Inhabit Media, the only wholly Inuit-owned publisher currently on the […]

  • Our Recent Award Winners

    Books and media from our publishers regularly receive starred reviews and feature on many lists of best titles. We’re really proud of award-winners that come from our publishers, too! In the past year, the following have won awards for children and youth publications: From Tilbury House, the picture book Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: […]