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Gene Luen Yang Named 5th National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Yang Champions Diversity in All Forms and Reading for Non-Readers with his Platform, “Reading Without Walls” New York, NY, January 4, 2016—The Children’s Book Council (CBC), Every Child a Reader (ECAR), and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress (CFB) have announced the appointment of Gene Luen Yang, Printz Award winner and [...]
First Second Celebrates Sara Varon
For our 10th anniversary, :01 has a monthly author feature. This month -- January -- we're celebrating the amazing Sara Varon! If you haven't checked out her books yet, now's your chance. She writes fantastic, heartwarming graphic novels that you read and absolutely fall in love with.
Happy New Year from First Second Books!
test heading There's a whole new year of great reading ahead of us! Here at First Second, there are a lot of reasons that we're excited about 2016 -- and most of them are embodied by the great books that we'll be publishing. We're thrilled to be bringing you twenty-four amazing graphic novels this year [...]
Publishers Like Books
test heading (some books on our office bookshelf currently) As a publisher, we're here to tell you that publishers are big fans of books. Everyone who works in publishing loves books -- and loves reading. To aspiring authors, there are a lot of times when 'publishing' can seem like some sort of crazy black-box monolith [...]
Happy Holidays from First Second Books
Happy holidays to everyone! We hope you're having a great time this holiday season (and that great time is accompanied by a lot of great books)! All the best of reading to everyone!
Giving Back
test heading This holiday season (and really all year round), we encourage you to give back to your community. There's a wonderful arts community, a wonderful books community, and a wonderful comics community, and they all have organizations that fight censorship, provide for authors and artists when they're struggling with health problems, give grants to [...]
First Second in Winter 2016
In winter 2016, we'll be publishing some books! They are all of a very high quality, and we are delighted to have them on our list. We know you will enjoy them as well! Because of the magic of 'shipping things from China taking an extremely long time because there's lots of water and then [...]
2015: Books!
In 2015, we published some books. Lots of books! Piles of books! (Why yes, we always organize our book-piles in age-order.) They are all very handsome. And they have attractive covers and spines. (Also, great insides!) (not pictured here) We're so proud to be the publishers of these marvelous graphic novels! If you haven't read [...]
New Book: The Nameless City!
New book new book! We just got in advance copies of Faith Erin Hicks' upcoming epic graphic novel The Nameless City. And it looks lovely! Pictures! (This book is going to be so good, you guys.) Here is the cover! The bit around the title looks extra shiny because it's got a) spot gloss and [...]
New Book: The Show
We're delighted to share some preview pictures of volume four in the Last Man series by Bastien Vives, Michael Sanlaville, and Balak: The Show! In this book, more excitement, adventure, magic, and tournament fighting than ever. It is now in the office! We hope you're following along with this addictive series; if not, now's the [...]
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