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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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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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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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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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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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
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This is the second 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 to celebrate World Kid Lit Month with a cavalcade of kids’ books from international publishers, we make our next stop in the Western Hemisphere,
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Happy Grandparents Day! Whether your young readers’ grandparent(s) can be visited on a daily basis or seen in person only on rare occasions, there are books they can share that celebrate their relationship. Here are some of our recent favorites: The Tide, by Clare Helen Welsh and illustrated by Ashling Lindsay, from Tiger Tales Books, offers
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August celebrates Women In Translation as an opportunity to discover voices and perspectives beyond the English speaking book world. When could be a better time to start this exploration than as a picture book reader? While many of our publishers hail from different parts of the world, here we feature a trio of picture books
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