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Google Books Copyright Information--All Google Book Previews Linked On This Virtual Bookroom Are Free And Available To The Public-The Links Were Obtained From And On The TeachingBooks Website, Too

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Google Books Copyright Information--All Google Book Previews Linked On This Virtual Bookroom Are Free And Available To The Public-The Links Were Obtained From And On The TeachingBooks Website, Too

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Kate Messner: Fair Use for Online Storytimes and Read Alouds During Covid-19

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Kate Messner: Fair Use for Online Storytimes and Read Alouds During Covid-19

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Many teachers & librarians are reaching out to authors and illustrators to ask about permissions for sharing online read-alouds, either live or recorded, for students who are currently learning at home. While we may be able to say "Sure, that's fine with me," we actually can't give you legal permission. That has to come from publishers, and many have begun to issue statements and guidelines to help out. Please note that some are sharing policies publicly, while others are asking teachers & librarians to request those guidelines via email. You can either email the publisher or the author of the book you'd like to read, as many of us have those guidelines and have been told it's fine to share them with you via email. Here's what I have so far. Publishers, authors, & illustrators - please email me if you have more official updates, and I'll add as soon as I can.

From Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House has extended its open license for online story time and classroom read alouds and live events, through December 31, 2020. Details are here. This covers my History Smashers series.

From Chronicle Books:

Chronicle Books will be updating their guidelines soon to extend story time permissions through March 31, 2021. I'll post specific guidelines soon, but you can plan on being able to use these books through early Spring.

Chronicle's policy covers nearly all of my picture books, so read away!

From Scholastic:

Scholastic has also extended its guidelines for online read-alouds through December 31, 2020. Details are here.

This policy covers my Marty McGuire series, my Ranger in Time historical adventure chapter book series, and my Silver Jaguar Society mysteries.

From Bloomsbury Kids:

Bloomsbury Kids has extended permissions through December 31, 2020, allowing both live-streaming (not recorded) and password-protected, private read-alouds of entire works, as well as publicly shared read-alouds of excerpts (no more than 20%), all through the end of the school year. Bloomsbury is asking that you contact the publisher or the author of the work for more information on those guidelines. Note: Bloomsbury is working on an updated policy to allow read-alouds through the fall - stay tuned!

This policy applies to most of my stand-alone novels, including these frequent classroom read-alouds!

There's a wonderful and extensive teaching & discussion guide for CHIRP that you can download here. Thanks to educator/writer Melissa Guerrette for creating it!

From Candlewick:

The Candlewick guidelines above refer to my Fergus and Zeke easy readers.

From Lerner Books:

Lerner Books has extended online read-aloud permissions through March 31, 2021. Details are here. This covers my book TRACKING PYTHONS: THE QUEST TO CATCH AN INVASIVE PREDATOR AND SAVE AN ECOSYSTEM.

More fair use guidelines from publishers:
Sourcebooks has shared these guidelines. Here are guidelines from Charlesbridge, which is requesting that people email for permissions.
Little Brown Books for Young Readers has published this book sharing permission statement for educators.

Here is the current Penguin Random House Open License for Online Storytime, Classroom Read-Alouds, and Live Events.

Boyds Mills & Kane released this list of guidelines for Online Reading During the Coronavirus.

Lee & Low has shared these temporary guidelines for online read-alouds.

Simon & Schuster has extended its Online Book Reading Guidelines through December 31, 2020.

Here are MacMillan's Content Use Guidelines for Teachers, Librarians, and Parents.

And here is a temporary permissions statement from Abrams Children's Books.

HarperCollins has shared these guidelines for authors, illustrators, and educators regarding online read-alouds.

The Quarto Group's guidelines for online read-alouds are here.

From Barefoot Books: Thank you for your permission request. We are happy to extend gratis permission for the [name of organization] to do virtual story times with any of our books, so long as you credit the author, illustrator and Barefoot Books as the publisher. We also ask that you provide a link to our website, www.barefootbooks.com, in any posts or captions along with the story time. This permission extends through December 31, 2020.

That's the information I have for right now, but I'll keep updating this page as I learn more. If any other publishers or authors have additional permissions statements or updates, please reach out via the contact form on my website to share, and I'll be happy to add.

Teachers & librarians - Thank you so much for all of the work you're doing to make learning and reading accessible for all during this time. You're such heroes for our kids and families right now. We see you. And we appreciate you so much.

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School Library Journal on Guidelines for read aloud during Covid-19

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School Library Journal on Guidelines for read aloud during Covid-19

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Written and Illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
Publisher: Graphix (2016)

-Watch the video book trailer on TeachingBooks! (by Scholastic)
-Read a preview of the book on Google Books Preview!
-Listen to a student read this book aloud on YouTube! (by Korina's World)

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Hi, fourth and fifth graders! Here are just some of the many books in our library! The theme of our library is "Across the Earth and to the Moon and Back." These books depict many different people and cultures all around the globe and even incorporate some information about outer space. The numbered columns are organized by genre, and you will be able to scroll and view 3-4 books as well as related book features within each genre.

You are able to click on all the pink words in each column. These pink words will lead you to various listed websites to view different texts and videos. Depending on your preferences, you can listen to a book, or read a book, or watch a book trailer, for example. All the books in our library are meant to serve as "mirrors," where you can find yourself in and relate to the story, or "windows" where you can learn more about and appreciate other people as well as diverse cultures and perspectives. https://www.pbs.org/education/blog/the-importance-of-windows-and-mirrors-in-stories

Please email me at bdigna1@students.towson.edu if you have any questions or comments. Hard copies of these books are available for pick-up at my classroom (on a week-by-week, sign-up basis).

Remember- you each have an individual class code for www.getepic.com to use during the school day. For the TeachingBooks website, click on the pink link in the columns to the right, and then click the book cover on the left side of the page once you are on the website. This will bring you to the TeachingBooks home page in order to look at more activities, excerpts, and lessons related to the story. Hope to see you all in person soon! Stay safe!
-Miss Brooke Dignan

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Written and Illustrated by Rich Lo
Publisher: Holiday House (2019)

-Read through the whole book on Epic!

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Martí's Song for Freedom / Martí y sus versos por la libertad

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Martí's Song for Freedom / Martí y sus versos por la libertad

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Written by Emma Otheguy and assisted by Adriana Domainguez and Jose Martai

Illustrated by Beatriz Vidal

Publisher: Children's Book Press (2017)

-Listen and watch a read-aloud by the author in English on YouTube! (by KidLit TV)

-Listen and watch a read-aloud by the author in Spanish on YouTube! (by KidLit TV)

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The Day It Snowed Tortillas/El Dia Que Nevaron Tortillas: Folktales told in Spanish and English

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The Day It Snowed Tortillas/El Dia Que Nevaron Tortillas: Folktales told in Spanish and English

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Edited and told by Joe Hall
Illustrated by Antonio Castro Lopez
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press (2003)

-Read The Day It Snowed Tortillas/El Dia Que Nevaron Tortillas on Google Books Preview!
-Listen to a storytelling read-aloud by the editor of the story on YouTube!

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Written by Roald Dahl
Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman and Quentin Blake
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (1964), republished by Penguin Books (1995)

-Listen to an audio excerpt from TeachingBooks here!
-Listen to the full audiobook on YouTube! (narrated by Lewis Kirk)
-Read excerpts from the book on Google Books Preview!

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Written and Illustrated by Aron Nels Steinke
Publisher: Graphix (2018)

-Watch the book trailer on TeachingBooks! (provided by Scholastic)
-Read a preview of the book on Google Books!

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Written and Illustrated by Brian Floca
Publisher: National Geographic School Publishing (2010)

-Listen to the YouTube read-aloud here! (by Doyle Tiger Moms)
-Watch the video book trailer from TeachingBooks here!

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Written by Bonnie Bader
Illustrated by Elizabeth Wolf
Publisher: Penguin Workshop (2007)

-Read a preview of the book on Google Books Preview!
-Listen to a SoundCloud free audio excerpt here!

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5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) 2

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5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) 2

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Written and Illustrated by National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Kids (2014)

-Read the entire book on Epic!

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Written and Illustrated by Remy Lai
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (2019)

-Listen to an audiobook excerpt on TeachingBooks!
-Watch the video book trailer on TeachingBooks! (provided by Macmillan Children's Books)
-Listen to the full audiobook with a free trial on audiobooks.com!

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Written by Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press (2000)

-Listen to an audio excerpt on TeachingBooks!
-Look at a Reader's Theater script on Scholastic!
-Read a Google Books preview of the story here!

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Written by Katherine Applegate
Illustrated by Patricia Castelao
Publisher: HarperCollins (2012)

-Listen to an audio excerpt on TeachingBooks!
-Read part of the book on Google Books Preview!
-Watch the YouTube book trailer here! (by HarperKids)

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Written by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
Illustrated by Victoria Jamieson and Iman Geddy
Publisher: Dial Books (2020)

-Listen to an audio excerpt on TeachingBooks!
-Read a preview of the book on Google Books Preview!
-Watch a YouTube video with the author and illustrator--a read aloud of an excerpt of the book and a video of how to draw the characters in the story! (by Penguin Middle School)

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Written by Kelly Yang
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books (2018)

-Read an audio excerpt on TeachingBooks!
-Watch a TeachingBooks video trailer of the story here! (provided by Scholastic)
Read a Google Books preview of the story here!

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Written by Ellen Levine
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Publisher: Scholastic Press (2007)

-Listen to the entire audiobook on Epic here!
-Read a preview of the book on Google Books Preview!

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Written and Illustrated by Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2009)

-Listen to an audio excerpt from TeachingBooks here!
-Watch and listen to author Grace Lin read a chapter of the book on YouTube! (by Grace Lin)
-Watch the YouTube book trailer here! (Michelle Harclerode/booktrailersforreaders.com)

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Written by Gita Varadarajan and Sarah Weeks
Illustrated by Mary Claire Cruz
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. (2016)

-Listen to the whole audiobook on Epic!
-Read a preview of the book on Google Books Preview!

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Written by Marilyn Singer
Illustrated by Julia Cairns
Publisher: Lee & Low Books (2011)

-Click here in order to read/listen to the entire poetry book on Epic!

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Written by Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1989)

-Listen to an audio excerpt of the book on TeachingBooks here!
-Read some chapters of the story on Google Books Preview!

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Written by Margarita Engle
Illustrated by Rafael Lopez
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (2017)

-Read some of the poems on Google Books Preview!
-Listen and watch a YouTube read-aloud here! (by Saluda River Academy for the Arts)
-Watch the TeachingBooks book trailer here! (provided by Texas Bluebonnet Award)

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Written by Uma Krishnaswami
Publisher: Tu Books (2017)

-Click here to read the entire book on Epic!

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Written by Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by James Stevenson
Publisher: Greenwillow Books (1984); republished by HarperCollins (2013)

-Listen to a read-aloud on YouTube here! (by FunAndGamz Channel)
-Click here to read a Google Books preview of the poetry anthology!

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Written by Kwame Alexander
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2019)

-Click here for a TeachingBooks full video read-aloud by the author, Kwame Alexander!
-Look more closely at the Google Books preview here!

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Written and Illustrated by R.J. Palacio
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (2012)

-Listen to an audio excerpt from the book on TeachingBooks!
-Listen to the audiobook on YouTube! (by The Book Nook)
-Read a book preview on Google Books here!

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Written by Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Delacorte Press (1996)

-Listen to an audiobook excerpt on TeachingBooks!
-Read a preview of the book on Google Books Preview!