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Curiosity Reigns in Titles for Older Kids During Children’s Book Week

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Books for kids in middle grades and into their tweens and early teens engage audiences by invoking curiosity. This occurs in both informational and imaginative narratives. And we’ve got some excellent suggestions to help independently reading kids celebrate this year’s 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week! Just this week, the national association that creates and […]

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Praise-worthy Picture Books to Discover During Children’s Book Week

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Picture books can carry delightful and engaging content for many age groups. In our celebration of the 100 year of Children’s Book Week, we’re going to focus on brand new and still forthcoming picture books for preschoolers and those in primary school, and every one of them is a picture book unlike any you may

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Children’s Book Week at 100: New Board Books Are Inclusive

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This week marks the 100th anniversary of America’s longest running literacy initiative: Children’s Book Week. We’ll bring you a slice of inspiration each day here, from Board books (today) through picture books, chapter books, middle grade and teen choices, graphic novels and audiobooks. There’s something new for everyone as we honor this century-old occasion. The

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New Stories for a Traditional Holiday: Happy Halloween!

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Whether you’re looking for a gentle picture book for a child new to the holiday or something to ratchet up the fear factor for a blasé teen, the crop of possibilities is glowing with options. From Pajama Press, Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin Round, by Rosanna Battigelli and illustrated by Tara Anderson, provides seasonal rhymes and images

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Celebrate Global Diversity Month…and Beyond

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October may be Global Diversity Month; we think celebrating diversity in many ways is a year around need—and delight!  Among the many kinds of diversity our publishers bring to attention and celebration, some also have explicit days of recognition in October’s calendar: October 4 marks World Animal Day. Of course, everyday can be a day for

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An Abundance of Award Winners!

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October has brought a wonderfully rich harvest of awards to our publishers. The Northern Dawn‘s book awards, Northern Lights, were announced in a range of categories “honoring children’s literature of extraordinary merit.” We are so pleased to see so many of the books we love on the roster of 2019 winners: Board Book/Toddler Winner: From

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Astronaut Annie Read to You by…an Astronaut! From Space!

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Several months ago, we alerted you to the very exciting project Tilbury House Publishers, author Suzanne Slade, and illustrator Nicole Tadgell were quite literally launching courtesy of NASA’s Space Station Explorers Story Time from Space project. After Astronaut Annie was published, printed, a copy of it cleaned and packed into a delivery capsule to be

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Picture Books Celebrating Emotional Intelligence in the Face of Adult Sadness

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A recent and welcome mini-trend we’re seeing is the art of featuring children who recognize and respond appropriately to adult sadness.  Since virtually all small children do have significant adults in their lives and since all of us as humans of any age sometimes experience sadness, the real life reality is that kids do see adults

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The Southern Hemisphere and Beyond in World Kid Lit

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This is the fourth in a series of four posts with which we ask you to join us in celebrating World Turning to the Southern Hemisphere to explore new books for World Kid Lit Month, we have to start with Gecko Press, New Zealand’s award-winning children’s publisher.  It seems fitting, for the theme here, to give

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