Tiny Owl
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Picture Books Celebrating Emotional Intelligence in the Face of Adult Sadness
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
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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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 […]
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Books for All of Us from All Around Our World
We expect North American readers are familiar with several of the publishers we bring to conferences. From Canada, there’s Pajama Press, for example, a publisher who has received acclaim from many associations and for a variety of areas of endeavor. Also from Canada, we bring Inhabit Media, the only wholly Inuit-owned publisher currently on the […]