Learn How Change Sings Inside Us All
with Amanda Gorman and Loren Long
Thursday, November 4, 2021
10:00–10:30 AM PT
Event duration: 30 minutes
Recommended Age Range: All ages
In this special Flipgrid Live Event, learners from around the world will be inspired and empowered to become change-makers and share their voices.
Join Amanda Gorman, poet, activist, and bestselling author, and New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long as they discuss their new picture book Change Sings, which celebrates how anything is possible when our voices join together.
Your learners will hear Amanda do a live reading from the book, get a look at Loren’s illustration process, and listen as the two discuss how they became who they are today and how they hope learners will use their abilities to make a difference.
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Each teacher/caregiver who registers for this event will trigger a donation to First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise that provides high quality, free and low cost new books and learning materials to schools/programs serving children in need. Penguin Random House will donate up to 5,000 copies of Change Sings and 5,000 copies of The Hill We Climb to be distributed by First Book to Title I schools by the end of 2022 school year. If you are an educator at a Title I eligible school, you can join the First Book community by clicking here.
Amanda Gorman is a poet, activist, and bestselling author. She is a committed advocate for the environment, racial equity, and gender justice. Read More
Amanda’s activism and poetry have been featured on the Today Show, PBS Kids, and CBS This Morning, and in the New York Times, Vogue, and Essence. After graduating cum laude from Harvard University, she now lives in her hometown of Los Angeles. In 2017, Amanda Gorman was appointed the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate by Urban Word – a program that supports Youth Poets Laureate in more than 60 cities, regions, and states nationally. Gorman’s performance of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration received critical acclaim and international attention. The special edition of her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb,” was published in March 2021 and debuted at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers list. Amanda appeared on the cover of TIME magazine in February 2021 and was the first poet to grace the cover of Vogue in their May 2021 issue. She was Porter Magazine's July 2021 cover star and received The Artist Impact Award at the 2021 Backstage at the Geffen Awards.
Her debut picture book, Change Sings, published September 2021, and her poetry collection, Call Us What We Carry, will release in December 2021.
Loren Long is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Otis series, which is in development as an animated television series. Read More
He's also the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama, Love by Matt de la Pena, and The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. He recently illustrated a modern edition of the Clement C. Moore classic, The Night Before Christmas. He lives near Cincinnati with his wife and rescue hound, Charlie.
*Photo credit: Danny Williams.