Please send an email to your name, school, city, state, the title and author/illustrator of the book(s) you would like to read online, as well as a follow-up email with a link to your video once youвЂ™ve read it.Please delete your video or disable by June 30, 2021. Permission granted by Abrams is for noncommercial use only. Viewers cannot be charged for viewing the video.Please only post your video through your schoolвЂ™s private platform or through another group or platform with limited access for your students only.Please note at the beginning of the video that you are reading with permission of Abrams ChildrenвЂ™s Books, and please note the title, author, and illustrator of the book.We ask that you follow these guidelines when doing so: We would be happy if you chose one or more of our books to read online to your students and participants. Email us at is eager to support and encourage the creative efforts of educators and others who are providing remote learning in this environment. Publishers with updates or specialВ policies or offerings related to remote learningВ can contact SLJ for inclusion in the Directory. Our hope in extending the В program is to give some stability for educators, librarians and booksellers in knowing that they can still use our authorвЂ™s books for story time,' wrote Skip Dye, SVP, Library Sales and Digital Strategy & SVP, Sales Operations, Penguin Random House, in an email to SLJ.ДЇor more publisher policies, see the COVID-19 Publisher Information Directory. 'We are continuing to get requests as more and more libraries and schools have had to close dueВ to the increase cases of Covid-19. (See вЂњPublishers Adapt Policies To Help EducatorsвЂќ) To help educators and librarians engaged in online learning and storytimes held via Zoom and other virtual means, many publishers relaxed copyright restriction on their works at the start of the pandemic. Lerner has extended permissions to March 31, 2021. With remote learning looking like the continued state of play, publishers have extended permissions for read alouds of their titles.ДЄbrams, HarperCollins, and Peachtree haveВ joined Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster toВ extendВ permissions forВ online story time and classroom read-aloud videos to June 30, 2021.

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