Category: Spotlight

Oh Joy! Can you imagine creating a book for your grandchildren? I have 3 grandsons under 5, and 2 of them have been passionate Fire Chiefs. Do you have a firefighter in your family? This Read more…

52 writers, illustrators, and photographers contributed to this imaginative, inspirational, and deeply important new curious illustrated book for children. What DO we tell our children about the contemporary world of challenges like cruelty, racism, hate? Read more…

Hey Birders of all Ages! This book is for us. Did you know that the annual Christmas Bird Count began in reaction to an annual competition when teams of sports hunters would shoot birds on Read more…

KJ Dell’Antonia and I published Reading With Babies, Toddlers and Twos with Sourcebooks in 2006. Rachel Payne, Brooklyn Librarian Extraordinaire, helped revise the 2nd edition in 2013. And now KJ, a writer, blogger and editor Read more…

Barbershop Books created a brilliant, simple, direct and effective reading program. It was awarded the coveted National Book Foundation’s Innovations Prize in 2017. Boys are often happy to read with family and teachers until a Read more…

Jane Yolen, one of our most prolific and splendid contemporary writers, has now published 365 books. So, of course, she has come out with a Book-A-Day Calendar. Each title links somehow to the date it’s Read more…

This is a curious article to note. When KJ Dell’Antonia, Rachel Payne and I edited our book for Sourcebooks in 2013 we made sure the books recommended were in print, available to purchase, or in Read more…