Do You Teach Communication?

We are celebrating Caribbean American Heritage Month with books by Caribbean and Caribbean-American authors, while recognizing the significance of the community’s influence on the history and culture of the United States. This book list includes fiction, memoir, narrative nonfiction, and history that illuminate and give insight into the community’s contributions and impact through individual lives

Dear Educators: Constance Baker Motley and the turbulent but hopeful era in which she lived and worked captivates students. Over email, at book fairs, and in university classrooms nationwide, students have approached me to explain how Civil Rights Queen, my book about Motley’s life and times, stimulated, provoked, and moved them. Motley’s admirers come from

Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   April showers bring May books! Check out the new classics we’re reading to celebrate the return of sunny days and warmer weather, and let us know on social media what you’re turning to (we’re @PenguinClassics everywhere). Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska A

In How Not to Kill Yourself, Martin chronicles his multiple suicide attempts in an intimate depiction of the mindset of someone obsessed with self-destruction. He argues that, for the vast majority of suicides, an attempt does not just come out of the blue, nor is it merely a violent reaction to a particular crisis or failure but

Join Penguin Random House Education and Alliant International University for a free webinar about the transformative power of mindfulness in education on Thursday, May 18th from 3:00pm-4:00pm EDT. The panel will feature Ali Smith, co-author of Let Your Light Shine: How Mindfulness Can Empower Children and Rebuild Communities (TarcherPerigee) in conversation with AIU’s Dr. Carlton W. Parks, Professor;

For Black Music Appreciation month in June, Penguin Random House Education is celebrating influential Black musicians and artists. We have provided a selection of books that include a range of music topics, from blues to hip-hop to jazz to pop, and musicians and artists who have brought entertainment to their communities and beyond, and inspired

For LGBTQIA+ Pride Month in June, we are celebrating the community with a collection that displays its contributions to society. The books within this collection are written by a range of individuals whose unique experiences show that the community is expansive and diverse, and their work ranges from fiction to memoir to history. Their individual

For Jewish American Heritage Month in May, Penguin Random House Education is celebrating the generations of Jewish Americans who have made up the fabric of American society. We have provided a collection of titles by and about Jewish Americans that includes fiction, memoir, Jewish history, and key issues in current events. The authors share their

By: Kristen Joiner “So, you’ve been a feminist and worked in human rights your whole career?” Judy Heumann asked me the first time we met to discuss the possibility of writing her memoir. “Right.” “And you never knew disability was a civil rights issue?” Since I’d already owned up to this, I nodded again. “So,