Teachers: Here are the publishers and authors that have given permission for their books to be read aloud. Please check your books (the title page, cover, or spine) for the publishing company. If it is one of the ones listed here, read their guidelines and include the required information in the video. Please read the caveat about authors granting permission below. If you are not sure about a book, contact your campus librarian for clarification. This list has been compiled with the help of tweets from Melissa Burger and Kate Messner. **SLJ has also published an article with publisher guidelines** Publisher (link to tweet) Guidelines Set Expiration Date
Lerner Lerner is committed to our authors and illustrators as well as the readers None given, but who enjoy their books. We want to help protect the hard work and end of current creativity of our contributors while supporting schools and libraries in this school year would difficult time. Educators and librarians looking for read-aloud permission be a best practice for distance learning, please fill out this form: https://rights- permissions.lernerbooks.com . Permission will be granted as quickly as possible where contracts allow. We also encourage educators to reach out to authors directly in case the authors have already created such videos that can be used immediately.
MacMillan Books During this emergency and when their schools are closed, we have no None given, but objection to (1) teachers and librarians live streaming or posting videos end of current reading our children’s books to their students, provided it is done on a school year would noncommercial basis, and (2) authors live streaming or posting videos be a best practice reading their children’s books, provided it is done on a noncommercial basis. Reporting We ask that all educators, librarians and booksellers please notify us via email (addressed to [email protected] ) when you post or stream a story time or read-aloud video or live event, providing the following information: ● Name and address of the library, school, or store ● Title, author and ISBN of the book that is read ● Contact information for the individual responsible for the reading ● The educational or social media platform on which the video or live event is posted or held and a link to that video or live event Lee & Low Books ● Please note at the beginning of your recording that you are reading June 30, 2020 with permission from Lee & Low Books. ● Recordings should only be posted/shared on closed platforms such as a private YouTube channel or password-protected school platform. ● Story time or read-aloud events featuring our books may be streamed live through platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube Live. However, please make sure recordings of these events do not remain in your archives for more than 24 hours after the event has concluded. ● Please tag @LEEandLOW when discussing any recordings featuring our books on social media ● Reporting: Please use this form to notify us when you post a stream or recording using our books.
Candlewick Press ● Please note at the beginning of your recording that you are reading Live readings only; with permission from Candlewick Press. cannot save or ● Librarians, teachers, caregivers, and the clergy can, through virtual archive means, read any Candlewick Press title to their patrons, students, and children. ● Do not archive or save the readings. ● Please post your videos only through your school or group’s private platform, or within a closed group with access limited to your student/patron community. ● Teachers, librarians, and those who intend to make recordings, please email your name, city, state, the name of the private, secure platform you will use to share the reading, and the title and author/illustrator of the books you intend to read online to [email protected].
Simon & Schuster ● At the beginning of your video, please state that you are reading June 30, 2020 the book “with permission from Simon & Schuster.” ● We ask that you post your reading within the confines of your school, library, or store's platform or another closed group with limited access for your students and customers. However, for Ready-to-Reads, picture books, and any other younger formats, if this is not possible, you may post it through a public platform, such as YouTube. ● For these younger formats, it is fine to read the entire book. For chapter books and novels, the readings should be limited to a few chapters. ● If you are an educator or librarian, email us at Education[email protected] with your name, school, city, and state, and the title and author/illustrator of the book you intend to read online and the date. ● Finally, we would love to follow along with your read-aloud, so educators and librarians, please tag Simon & Schuster Education & Library’s social media in your posts! Twitter: @SSEdLib Instagram: @SSEdLib Facebook: @SSEdLib
Bloomsbury Permission to livestream whole read-alouds or post them on closed sites June 30, 2020 through June 30. If it's a public site like YouTube, no more than 20% should be shared.
Scholastic ● At the beginning of your video, please state that you are June 30, 2020 Guidelines presenting your reading “with permission from Scholastic.” ● Our preference is that you post your reading through your school's platform or another closed group or platform with limited access for your students. However, we recognize this may not be possible, in which case you may post it through a more publicly accessible platform, such as YouTube. ● Since we view this as a way to compensate for the closure of schools, please delete your video or disable access by the end of this current school year, no later than June 30, 2020. ● Please reply to [email protected] with your name, school, city and state, and the title and author/illustrator of the book you intend to read online. By posting a reading, you are agreeing to abide by the above terms. ● Finally, we would love to follow along with your read-aloud, so please tag Scholastic's social media handles in any posts affiliated with it! Twitter: @Scholastic Instagram: @ScholasticInc Facebook: @Scholastic YouTube: @Scholastic
Chronicle Books ● Librarians and Teachers can read to students (any students, not June 30th, 2020 just their own students). These readings can be live or recorded. ● Link to retailers who sell books (BN.com, indiebound, etc). Try to link to local stores instead of just Amazon
HarperCollins Publishers We are granting permission to educators and librarians to read May 31, 2020 HarperCollins Children’s Books titles online, on video, through the end of the school year. These virtual readings may be streamed live via digital platforms, or if recorded, posted to closed educational platforms. If a closed platform is unavailable, recorded videos of readings may be uploaded to YouTube as long as they are marked “Unlisted”. We ask that any educators or librarians performing or posting readings please do the following, as conditions of this grant of permission: ● At the beginning of the reading, state it is “with permission of HarperCollins Children’s Books”. ● Send their name, school or library, city and state, and the title and author/illustrator of the book they intend to read online to [email protected]. ● Delete uploaded or archived videos or, in the event the applicable platform does not permit deletion, disable access to uploaded videos, by the end of the local school year.
Penguin Random House Kids Details Here End of the current Temporary Open License for read alouds ● Story time or classroom read-aloud videos in which a Penguin school year Random House book is read aloud and the book is displayed (for picture books) may be created and posted to closed educational platforms such as Google Classroom, Schoology, Edmodo and Discovery Education, in order to replicate the read-aloud book experience that would otherwise be available to educators in the classroom. ● If a Teacher or Educator plans to share a story time video by recording a video, uploading it to a YouTube channel, and posting a link to that YouTube video inside a closed educational platform, that YouTube video must be designated as “Unlisted” (not “Public”) when uploading. See screenshot for how to choose “Unlisted” while uploading on YouTube. ● These story time and classroom read-aloud videos may be hosted on the educational platform and/or YouTube (as an “Unlisted” file) until the end of the current school year, after which we request that they be removed from the educational platform and/or from YouTube, unless this permission is extended for the next school semester. ● Story time or read-aloud live events in which a Penguin Random House book is read out loud and the book is displayed (for picture books) may be streamed live, in real time, on social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitter, and Instagram. ● These story time or read-aloud live events may not be maintained in the archive of the social media platform and appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that videos of the live events are not retained. Because these platforms automatically archive live events by default, when your event has concluded, please locate the recorded live video in your account (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) and delete it. See screenshot for how to delete a live video from YouTube after it has concluded. Reporting requirements – We ask that all educators, librarians and booksellers please notify us via email (addressed to [email protected]) when you post or stream a story time or read-aloud video or live event, providing the following information: ● Name and address of the library, school, or store ● Title, author and ISBN of the book that is read ● Contact information for the individual responsible for the reading ● The educational or social media platform on which the video or live event is posted or held and a link to that video or live event
Little Brown ● Please note at the onset of the video that you are reading with 30 days from Official guidelines on website permission from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers posting ● Please only post your video through your school’s private platform or through another closed group or platform with limited access for only your students. ● Please delete your video or disable access within 30 days ● Please send your name, school, city, and state, as well as the title and author/illustrator of the book(s) you intend to read online to [email protected] ● Tag Twitter (@lbschool), Facebook (@littlebrownschool), or Instagram (@littlebrownyoungreaders)
Author (link to tweet) Guidelines Set Expiration Date
**Caution: An author’s permission is not all that is needed. We really need the publisher’s permission. These authors have said yes, but we are still looking for their publisher’s consent**
Jason Reynolds Technically not allowed, but as long as it is on a site that only students Not given, but let’s can access (Seesaw, Google Classroom, Safari Montage, your own follow end of private YouTube channel) they are okay with it. current school year
Lois Lowry Email [email protected] End of current school year
Bridget Heos Post on closed network End of current school year Margaret Peterson Haddix Post on closed network End of current school year
Josh Funk Five books only according to his publishers (Sterling Kids) A week after ● Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast posting ● The Case of the Stinky Stench ● Mission Defrostable ● Albie Newton ● A Night at the Bookstore Stream on private networks
Brad Meltzer ● The Ordinary People Change the World books only End of current ● Non commercial purposes only school year ● Post on closed network
Doreen Cronin ● She is not able to officially give permission, but she has given it to End of current the extent she can. Obviously, closed network only school year
Drew Daywalt Post on closed network End of current school year
Rick Riordan Non commercial purposes only, post on closed network End of current Link to resources school year
Laurie Halse Anderson Books published by Penguin Random House End of current Read whole thread of tweet ● Catalyst school year ● Prom ● Twisted ● Wintergirls ● The Impossible Knife of Memory ● SHOUT
Lindsey Stoddard Publisher is HarperCollins; will look for their permission End of current school year
Mo Willems Publisher guidelines Not specified for ● A school-based intranet for students only, such as Google Classroom closed network or another closed system, is the best way to share teacher read- videos, but let’s go aloud videos and other copyrighted content with your students. with end of current ● A closed Facebook group or password-protected YouTube link to school year such videos, where the video is “unlisted” on YouTube and only available to those with the link, is the next best option. ● If neither of these is available, and your best method of reaching Publicly accessible students and families is Facebook Live or another publicly accessible methods - delete as method, we understand, but ask that you delete the videos as soon soon as possible as possible.
PLEASE CHECK OUT HIS LIVE CONTENT AS WELL!!
Dan Gemeinhart Scholastic published books only June 30, 2020 ● Honest Truth ● Some Kind of Courage ● Scar Island ● Good Dog
Karma Wilson LIVE STREAMING ONLY - NO ARCHIVES
BJ Novak He gives blanket permission, but noncommercial purposes, closed End of current network school year
Julia Cook Books can be read online through closed networks (Seesaw, WebEx, End of current Google Classroom, Safari Montage). NO FACEBOOK LIVE OR school year YOUTUBE
Peter H. Reynolds Closed networks only. Throw in questions so it’s not a straight read End of current aloud school year
Dan Gutman He gives blanket permission, but noncommercial purposes, closed End of current network school year
Peter Brown He is covered by Little Brown Publishers. He shared their same post 30 days from about guidelines. posting
Bruce Coville (read whole tweet) He is covered by Penguin Random House. See guidelines above or End of current here. school year
Todd Parr He gives blanket permission, but noncommercial purposes, closed End of current network school year
RJ Palacio She gives blanket permission, but noncommercial purposes, closed End of current network school year
Gordon Korman Covered by Chronicle and Scholastic guidelines above June 30, 2020 **Say “used by permission of Gordon Korman and Harper Audio”** Matthew Landis Books published by Penguin Random House covered. Not sure about End of current books published by Sky Horse. Noncommercial purposes, closed school year network.
Kwame Alexander He gives permission to stream privately to students or record on a private July 1, 2020 site for students to view.
JK Rowling She has granted an open license for teachers to post videos of End of the school themselves reading aloud from the “Harry Potter” books on secure year networks or closed educational platforms.