Odyssey Award

  • Breaking Bread for Food Literacy

    Breaking Bread for Food Literacy

    The little and powerful kids’ press From Readers To Eaters realizes its mission to encourage food literacy through an array of community-level activities. You can find a full catalog of their books, in English and Spanish, here. Part of their list features a series featuring “food heroes” including former basketball star Will Allen, a pioneer […]

  • Black Lives Matter All the Time for All Children

    Black Lives Matter All the Time for All Children

    At a time when many people around the world find themselves willing to focus on the material truth that Black Lives Matter, we want to make sure that all kids—regardless of identity—have plenty of access to books that show and tell the wide range of interests, appearances, languages, and concerns that everyone, including Black children, […]

  • Lots of Winning Titles for Multicultural Book Day

    Lots of Winning Titles for Multicultural Book Day

    January 31 is Multicultural Book Day and that arrives this year on the heels of the American Library Association’s 2020 announcements of youth media awards.  Among the rich array of picture books, novels, youth audience nonfiction, audiobooks, and apps, authors and illustrators, and children’s literature experts who received plaudits this year, we think these would enhance […]

  • Our Recent Award Winners

    Books and media from our publishers regularly receive starred reviews and feature on many lists of best titles. We’re really proud of award-winners that come from our publishers, too! In the past year, the following have won awards for children and youth publications: From Tilbury House, the picture book Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: […]