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Stories, Legends, and Myths from Inuit Publisher Inhabit Media

CMoorehead / Inhabit Media, Picture books / #OwnVoices, Folklore, Inhabit Media, picture books

The Inuit people live in our world’s northernmost permanently inhabited locale. Inuit Nunavut, the Inuit homeland, is also Canada’s largest territory, encompassing 36 percent of Canada’s landmass and 50 percent of Canada’s coastline. It is in this rich, Arctic expanse that the Inuit people—numbering over 160,000 across Canada, Russia, Alaska, and Greenland—live, love, and work […]

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Bank Street Books Announces Newest Best Children’s Books of the Year

FGoldsmith / Albatros Media, Bank Street, Barefoot Books, Blue Dot Kids Press, board books, Cassava Republic, Cicada Books, Floris Books, Gecko Press, Helvetiq, Lantana Publishing, Little Island, Nosy Crow, Pajama Press, Picture books, Red Comet Press, Tapioca Stories, Toon Books / Albatros Media, Bank Street Center for Children's Literature, Barefoot Books, Blue Dot Kids Press, board books, book lists, Cassava Republic, Cicada Books, Floris Books, Folklore, Gecko Press, graphic novels, Helvetiq, informational books, Kube Publishing, Lantana Publishing, Little Island, Nosy Crow, Pajama Press, picture books, Red Comet Press, Spanish language, Tapioca Stories, TOON Books, translation

The newly released list from Bank Street College of Education reflects their Children’s Book Committee’s choices from 2023’s publications. Bank Street’s seal of “best” is recognized by librarians, teachers, teacher training programs, and parents as a gold standard guide to children’s books. The selection committee is composed of more than two dozen members who are

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Hansel & Gretel cover on left and interior spread on right

Old Tales Told Afresh

FGoldsmith / Creston Books, fairy tales, folklore, graphic novels, Helvetiq, Inhabit Media, Kalaniot Books, Manga Classics, Picture books, retellings, Toon Books, Translations / Creston Books, Fairy tales, Folklore, graphic novels, Helvetiq, Inhabit Media, Kalaniot Books, Mangs Classics, picture books, Retellings, TOON Books, translation

As the old year makes way for the new, let’s take a look through some fresh retellings of old stories. Some of these stories are rooted in folklore; others have been recrafted from literary works of bygone centuries. All offer new ways of seeing and understanding the roots from which they grow, just as insights

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