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Here are the most popular blog posts of the week.

SLJ welcomes information as we continue to report on the pandemic and its impact on students, educators, and libraries. We invite readers to contribute to our reporting.

The winners of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are Saturday by Oge Mora, King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, and Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan.

Mentioning the census in storytimes, including virtual storytimes, is a simple way to reach families about this vital issue. 

More schools are consider new ways to add news literacy and SEL to their teaching. There’s never been a better time to combine these efforts.

SLJ's reporting takes stock of the pandemic's impact on school and public libraries and the kid lit community.

With school and public libraries shuttered, librarians and literacy organizations have gotten creative trying to get books into students' hands, especially those who don't have books at home.

"The Last Dance" may be over, but there are plenty more sports documentaries that can teach, entertain, and inspire.

With news of Tom Low's death this week, people in the publishing world mourned the loss of the man who co-founded Lee & Low Books to combat the lack of diverse literature for children and opened a new world of possibilities for authors, educators, and readers.