Floris Books

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

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

    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 […]

  • World Kid Lit Month and the Richly Diverse Northern Hemisphere

    This is the third in a series of four posts with which we ask you to join us in celebrating World Kid Lit Month (#WorldKidLit on social media). As we continue our month-long celebration of international kids’ publishers and some of their newest books, we find the Northern Hemisphere overflowing with delights to discover. We’ve […]

  • Small Worlds

    Small Worlds

    Summer days invite us to explore nature up close and in detail, including the small worlds of insects, bees and butterflies. All of these make fine topics for picture books as well, so pairing an outdoor reading time with observation and discovery can turn a plain afternoon into magic.  Pack your hat, a magnifying glass, […]

  • Books to Bring Home Refugees’ Experiences

    Books to Bring Home Refugees’ Experiences

    Today’s post is written by Emerson Heflin, of Publisher Spotlight’s marketing team. In 2001, to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 20th to be World Refugee Day. Every year, countries across the world celebrate World Refugee Week to rally welcome and support […]

  • Big News for Floris Books’ Author Claire McFall

    Big News for Floris Books’ Author Claire McFall

    This may be the first time ever we have occasion to announce that a book from one of the many wonderful authors working with the publishers we market has…a movie coming out!  However, that’s the case here: Claire McFall’s teen novel Ferryman is soon to be a motion picture!  The announcement has come that Kelly Marcel has […]