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Children’s Book Week at 100: New Board Books Are Inclusive

FGoldsmith / Barefoot Books, board books, Child's Play, Children's Book Week, Kube Publishing / Awards and Book Lists

This week marks the 100th anniversary of America’s longest running literacy initiative: Children’s Book Week. We’ll bring you a slice of inspiration each day here, from Board books (today) through picture books, chapter books, middle grade and teen choices, graphic novels and audiobooks. There’s something new for everyone as we honor this century-old occasion. The […]

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World Kid Lit Month Picks from the Western Hemisphere

FGoldsmith / Aesop Award, audiobooks, Barefoot Books, Inhabit Media, Live Oak Media, Pajama Press, Picture books, TOON Books, World Kid Lit Month / Linked by Lit

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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To the Moon!

FGoldsmith / Barefoot Books, board books, Flowerpot Press, Lonely Planet Kids, Maverick Books, Moon Landing 50th Anniversary, Peachtree Publishing Company, Picture books, Tiger Tales Books, Tilbury House / Linked by Lit

Today’s post is from Emerson Heflin of Publishers Spotlight’s marketing team. This Saturday, the world will celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the most incredible feats known to history. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted the American flag on lunar soil in 1969, but they could not have achieved their infamous space walk without the

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Books to Bring Home Refugees’ Experiences

FGoldsmith / Barefoot Books, Floris Books, Lonely Planet Kids, Pajama Press, Tilbury House, Tiny Owl, World Refugee Day / Linked by Lit

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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Inclusive Board Books for Every Bunny

FGoldsmith / Barefoot Books, board books, Child's Play, We Need Diverse Books / Linked by Lit

What better way to celebrate World Down Syndrome Awareness Day than with bright new board books from two different publishers! Both Child’s Play and Barefoot Books have new board book series inclusively featuring energetic and engaged toddlers. There are kids wearing glasses, kids of African heritage and Asian heritage, books in Spanish as well as

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Tell a Fairy Tale Day

FGoldsmith / Barefoot Books, Cicada Books, Diamond Bookshelf, Floris Books, Peachtree Publishing Company, Picture books, Tiny Owl / Linked by Lit

Today is National Tell a Fairy Tale Day and we have all kinds of inspiration to help you find a favorite to share. From Tiny Owl Books, you can pick up Cinderella of the Nile, as told by Beverly Naidoo and with evocative and detailed art by Marjan Vafaeian. This story has many cultural variations,

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We Are Family

FGoldsmith / Barefoot Books, board books, Cassava Republic, Lantana Publishing, Pajama Press, Picture books, Tilbury House / Linked by Lit

What a pleasure—and a relief—to see so many picture books showing families that reflect reality! We’ve collected some of our favorite new—and not quite new—picture-driven stories that demonstrate how inclusivity can make strong storytelling ideas even better. In the category of board books for the youngest family member, Barefoot Books’ Baby’s First Words, by Stella Blackstone

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International Book Giving Day 2019 poster

Books for Your Young Valentine

FGoldsmith / Auzou Publishing, Barefoot Books, Image Comics, Manga Classics, Tilbury House / Linked by Lit

We’re delighted to help you celebrate International Book Giving Day this Valentine holiday! Better than flowers, more accessible than chocolate, and sure to warm the hearts of both giver and recipient, there are warm-hearted books for everyone in your life. From Auzou Publishing our friend Wolf offers a perfect tie-in to the traditional February 14

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Books for All of Us from All Around Our World

FGoldsmith / Andersen Press, Barefoot Books, Child's Play, Diamond Bookshelf, Gecko Press, Inhabit Media, Karadi Tales, Lantana Publishing, Live Oak Media, Lonely Planet Kids, Maverick Books, NubeOcho, Pajama Press, Tiger Tales Books, Tilbury House, Tiny Owl, TOON Books / Linked by Lit

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

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