Our Publications
This page is currently under construction.
Baby T. Rex, Amicus Ink, August 2023
Amazon Editors’ Pick, August 2023
Sakamoto's Swim Club - How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory, Kids Can Press, May, 2021
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book, 2022
(CLR SIG) Notable Book for a Global Society, 2022
USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2022
2021 Cybils Award Finalist Elementary Nonfiction
2021 Starred Booklist review
2021 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard book selection
Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth 2021
Little Zebra, Amicus Ink, March, 2021
Little Penguin, Amicus Ink, March, 2021
Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year, 2021 Edition, Under Five List.
The Old Man and the Penguin : A True Story of True Friendship, Kids Can Press, October, 2020
2020 Starred Booklist review
Yusra Swims, Creative Editions, February, 2020
Little Monkey, Amicus Ink, February, 2020
Little Hippo, Amicus Ink, February, 2020
Little Tiger, Amicus Ink, March, 2019
Little Panda, Amicus Ink, March, 2019
Old Clothes for Dinner?!, Barefoot Books, Spring 2024
Call Me Roberto, illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez, Calkins Creek, August 2024
Hispanic Star: Ellen Ochoa, with Claudia Romo Edelman, Roaring Brook Press, September 2023
Hispanic Star: Sonia Sotomayor, with Claudia Romo Edelman, Roaring Brook Press, September 2023
Mammal Mania, Chicago Review Press, April 2021
CBC's April 2021 Hot of the Press Reading List: cbcbooks.org/cbc-book-lists/april-2021/
Plants Fight Back, illustrated by Rebecca Evans, Dawn Publications, 2020
Amazing Amphibians, Chicago Review Press, 2020
Finding a Dove for Gramps, Albert Whitman & Company, 2018
Applesauce Day, Albert Whitman & Company, 2017
There Was a Young Reindeer Who Swallowed a Present, Macmillan Kids UK, October 26, 2023 & Kane Miller Books USA, December 1, 2023.
There Was a Young Zombie Who Swallowed a Worm, Kane/Miller Books, 2022
There Was a Young Bunny Who Swallowed An Egg, Kane/Miller Books, 2024
Olive Dennis: Railroad Engineer, The Innovation Press, 2022
Shelly Becker
ABCs for a Peaceful Me, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino, Abrams Appleseed, August 2024
One, Two, Grandpa Loves You, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino, Abrams Appleseed, March 2023
The Lamplighter, Flux, Spring 2024.
Apple Pie Tired, written by Beth Charles, Sleeping Bear Press, July 2024
Color Taste Texture: Recipes for Picky Eaters, Those with Food Aversion, and Anyone Who’s Ever Cringed at Food, Avery, August 29,2023
ONE GRAIN OF SAND, Beach Lane Books, 2026
A Steminist Force, Familius, March 2024
WHAT WILL I BE, FROM A TO Z, Familius, 2025
Apple Pie Tired, illustrated by Hannah Brinson, Sleeping Bear Press, July 2024
How to Grow an Apple Pie, Albert Whitman & Company, 2020
Tziporah Cohen
No Vacancy, Groundwood Books, 2020
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Code Cracking for Kids: Secret Communication Throughout History, with 21 Codes and Ciphers, Chicago Review Press, 2020
Finalist for the 2020 Ohioana Book Awards
The Secret Notebook, Capstone Editions, August 1, 2020
Alone Like Me, Anne Schwartz Books, 2022
If You Ever Meet a Skeleton, illustrated by Katrin Dreiling, Page Street Kids, 2021
If Animals Built Your House by Bill Wise. Dawn Publications, 2020
Plants Fight Back by Lisa Amstutz. Dawn Publications, 2020
Is 2 a Lot: An Adventure With Numbers by Annie Watson. Tilbury House Publishers, 2019
2020 Mathical Book Honor Book
If You Played Hide-and-Seek With a Chameleon by Bill Wise. Dawn Publications, 2019
IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award gold winner in the Interior Design: Children's/Young Adult category
2020 Children’s Choices reading list
Precise Oaths, City Owl Press, June 2023
Explosive Chemistry, City Owl Press, October 2023
All Roads Lead to Rome, Delacorte Romance, Summer 2024
All Roads Lead to Paris, Delacorte Romance, Summer 2025
Sarah Floyd
Butterfly Girl, Clear Fork Publishing, 2019
Ten Clever Ninjas, Clear Fork Publishing, 2019
Alisha Gabriel and Sue Heavenrich
Funky Fungi - 30 Activities for Exploring Molds, Mushrooms, Lichens, and More, Chicago Review Press, Spring 2022
Won the 2023 AAAS/Subaru prize for Hands-On Science: www.sbfprize.org/blog/2023-prize-winners?
A Deadly Walk in Devon, Kensington, May 2024.
Sky’s End (Above the Black), Peachtree Teen, 2024
New York Times Bestseller, 1/10/24
Harmony Humbolt-The Perfect Pets Queen, illustrated by Mirka Hokkanen, Clear Fork Publishing, 2021
Wild Style - Amazing Animal Adornments, Lerner/Millbrook, 2020
I See Sea Food - Sea Creatures that Look Like Food, Lerner/Millbrook, 2019
Finalist for the 2023 Monarch Book Award.
Finalist for the 2020 Connecticut Book Awards Young Readers/Nonfiction
Starred review, November 1 issue, Booklist
Flora’s Wish, Dial Books, August 2023
Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2023
Amazon Best Book of the Year for ages 3-5, 2023
Numenia and the Hurricane, Page Street Kids, 2020
Hello, Little One! by Zeena Pliska, Page Street Kids, 2020
Warrior On the Mound, Holiday House, March, 5, 2024
Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection 2024
Sue Heavenrich
Funky Fungi - 30 Activities for Exploring Molds, Mushrooms, Lichens, and More, co-authored by Alisha Gabriel, Chicago Review Press, Spring 2022
Won the 2023 AAAS/Subaru prize for Hands-On Science: www.sbfprize.org/blog/2023-prize-winners?
Molly's Pie, illustrated by Chamisa Kellogg, Sleeping Bear Press, August 2023
Mirka Hokkanen
Harmony Humbolt-The Perfect Pets Queen, by Jenna Grodzicki, Clear Fork Publishing, 2021
A Poem Grows Inside You (illustrator Heather Brockman Lee, publisher The Innovation Press, 2022)
Woven of the World, Chronicle Books, 2022
Ragazzi Awards at Bologna - won a special mention in the non-fiction category: bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en/awards/bolognaragazzi-award/bolognaragazzi-award-all-the-2023-winners
Rissy No Kissies (illustrator Jess Engle, publisher Carolrhoda, 2021)
RISE Feminist Book List
Kirkus Best Books of 2021
Starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly
Be A Maker, Carolrhoda, 2019
Award: Social Justice Literature Award 2020
Awarded by: ILA (International Literacy Association)
Book: Be A Maker (illustrated by Elizabet Vuković, published by Carolrhoda, 2019)
Description: The SJLA seeks to "recognize outstanding books that address social responsibility towards individuals, communities, societies and/or the environment and which invite reflection and socially responsible action by the reader.”
Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List 2020-2021. Books from this list will be read and voted on by PA students in the upcoming school year.
2019 named #1 Makerspace Read Aloud by Teach Outside the Box
Magnolia Mudd and the Super Jumptastic Launcher Deluxe, Sterling, 2018
Grandmother Thorn, Ripple Grove Press, 2017
2018 Anna Dewdney Read Aloud Honor Book
Sarang Saves the School, Candlewick, Spring 2025
A Hanbok for Hana, Candlewick, Fall 2026
Josey Johnson's Hair and the Holy Spirit by Esau McCaulley. Illustrated by LaTonya R. Jackson, IVP Kids, May 10, 2022
2023 Black Authors Matter Children’s Book Award for Best Illustrator
The Lady of the Library, Sleeping Bear Press, March 15, 2021
Lisa Kerr
Wake, Sleepy One - California Poppies and the Super Bloom, West Margin Press, Spring 2022
Eureka! Gold award for nonfiction from the California Readers Association
From Here to There: Inventions That Changed the Way the World Moves, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 21, 2021
Junior Library Guild Selection
Starred Kirkus review
A Best Stem Book K-12 for 2022 from National Science Teaching Association/Children's Book Council (NSTA/CBC)
Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, Little Bee Books, January 28, 2020
2021 SCBWI: New England Crystal Kite Finalist
Amazon Editor Pick for Best NF for Kids (since 2020)
Four Otters Toboggan: An Animal Counting Book, PomegranateKids, April 2, 2019
Sweet Dreams, Sarah, Creston Books, April 1, 2019
Eureka Honor Award
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Book
Pippa's Passover Plate, Holiday House, February 1, 2019
2019 PJ Library Recommended Selection
Cosmic Collisions: Asteroid vs. Comet, Candlewick, April 2, 2024
Sun of Blood and Ruin, Harper Voyager, November 7, 2023
Publishers Weekly Starred review: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780063254312
Who Knew? Under the Apple Tree, Amicus Ink, August 10, 2021
Alexandria LaFaye
Ready to Fly coauthored with Lea Lyon, HarperCollins, 2020
Indie Pick of the List-Winter/Spring 2020
Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town, Albert Whitman, 2019
Starred review, Foreward Reviews
No Frogs in School, Sterling, 2018
Christine Sromek Laforet
Bree and the Teddy Bear Worries, illustrations by Lisa Rush. Clear Fork Publishing/Spork, publication due for 2020
Being Bree: Bree and the Loose Tooth Worries, illustrations by Lisa Rush. Clear Fork Publishing/Spork, 2018
Being Bree: Bree and the Nametag Worries, illustrations by Lisa Rush. Clear Fork Publishing/Spork, 2017
Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Torch, Carolrhoda Lab, for publication in the fall of 2022
Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature
Moonwalking, coauthored with Zetta Elliott. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), April 12, 2022
NEA Read Across America title for April, 2024, National Poetry Month
Best Books for Kids 2022. New York Public Library
Jordie & Joey Fell From the Sky, Jollyfish Press, April 19, 2022
The Pie Reports, Orca, May 14, 2024
Karl's New Beak, Capstone, 2019
California Reading Association Eureka honoree
A best STEM book of 2020, National Science Teaching Association/Children’s Book Council
A best science and nature book of 2019. School Library Journal
A Heart Just Like My Mother's, Kar-Ben/Lerner, 2018
Miss Betti: What Is This? How Detroit’s School Lunch Lady Got Good Food On the Menu, illustrated by Kristen Uroda, Sleeping Bear Press, Spring 2025
The Glorious Forest that Fire Built, Amicus Ink, Fall 2023
2023 Eureka! Honor Award from the California Reading Association
2023 Blueberry Honor Award from the Evanston Public Library
When an Elephant Hears No, Page Street Kids, January 23, 2024
When a Rhino Has to Wait, Page Street Kids, Winter 2025
Teddy Let's Go!, Enchanted Lion Books, is available for pre-order and will release on September 6, 2022
PEW! THE STINKY AND LEGEN-DAIRY GIFT FROM COLONEL THOMAS S. MEACHAM, Sleeping Bear Press, 2023
MY DREAM PETS - chosen for representation in the Unpublished Picture Book Showcase: dpictus.com/unpublished
THIS IS DANCE by Rekha S. Rajan, illustrated by Chris Park, RISE x Penguin Workshop, Spring 2025
BEHIND AGRI-ENERGY, Island Press, 2025
Cheryl Pilgrim
The Littlest Voyageur by Margi Preus. Illustrations by Cheryl Pilgrim. Holiday House/Margaret Ferguson Books, 2020
2020 Northern Lights Book Award
Starred Review-Publisher’s Weekly
Big and Little: A Story of Opposites, Holiday House, 2019
2019 Northern Lights Book Award
Julia Richardson
Let’s Build A Little Train, Sleeping Bear Press, August 15, 2022
Little Dandelion Seeds the World, Sleeping Bear Press, 2021
5-star San Francisco Book Review: https://sanfranciscobookreview.com/product/little-dandelion-seeds-the-world/
Monica Roe
Rural Voices - 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-town America by David Bowles, Joseph Bruchac, Veeda Bybee, Nora Shalaway Carpenter (also editing), Shae Carys, S.A. Cosby, Rob Costello, Randy DuBurke, David Macinnis Gill, Nasugraq Rainey Hopson, Estelle Laure, Yamile Saied Mendez, Ashley Hope Perez, Tirzah Price, and Monica Roe’s contribution: The Unhealthy Breakfast Club. Candlewick, 2020
Malik’s Number Thoughts, Albert Whitman & Co., 2022
Michelle “Ellie” Royce
Auntie Uncle: Drag Queen Hero, POW!Kids Books. April, 30, 2020
Lisa Rush
Bree and the Teddy Bear Worries by Christine Sromek Laforet. Illustrations by Lisa Rush. Clear Fork Publishing/Spork, publication due for 2020
Bree and the Loose Tooth Worries by Christine Sromek Laforet. Illustrations by Lisa Rush. Clear Fork Publishing/Spork, 2018
Cupcakes for Sprinkles by E. Marie Baker. Illustrations by Lisa Rush. Create Space (now KDP) , 2018
Bree and the Name Tag Worries by Christine Sromek Laforet. Illustrations by Lisa Rush. Clear Fork Publishing/Spork, 2017
When I Look Out My Window by Nicole Anzuoni. Illustrations by Lisa Rush. Create Space (now KDP) , 2016
Leafy Landmarks, Sleeping Bear Press, March 2024
A Pathway for Pollinators, Norton Young Readers, Spring 2026
A Place for Rain, Norton Young Readers, March 2024
Junior Library Guild Book Club selection
River Otter’s Adventure, Arbordale Publishing, September, 2020
2021-2022 The Tejas Star Reading List (TSRL): tools-resources/reading-lists/tejas-star/current-list/
The Forest Keeper, North South Books, 2023
Once, a Bird, Orca Book Publishers, 2023
2023 Starred Review from Kirkus
Starred Review from The Publisher's Weekly
Imagine a Garden, Greystone Books, 2023
The Lion Queen, Cameron Kids, ABRAMS, 2023
2023 Best Book, The New York Public Library
•2023 Best Biography, Bookstagang
111 Trees, Kids Can Press, October, 2020
2022- Shortlisted for the Yellow Cedar Award
2021 - Green Earth Book Award, The Nature Generation, Long-listed
2021 - Top 10 Sustainability Themed Children`s Books, Sustainability Roundtable of the American Library Association, Winner
2021 - Skipping Stones Honor List, Skipping Stones Magazine, Winner
2021 - Social Justice Literature Awards --- Nonfiction, International Literacy Association, Joint Winner
2021 - Best Children's Books List, Bank Street College, Winner
2021 Norma Fleck Non Fiction Prize, (CCBC Book Awards) Shortlisted
2020 Northern Lights Book Award
2020 - Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, Booklist, Winner
2020 - Picture Book Non-Fiction Category, Northern Lights Book Awards, Winner
Grandmother School, Orca Book Publishers, May, 2020
2021 Blue Spruce Award, Finalist
Finalist for 2021 The Doug Wright Best Book Award
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, Winner
(BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes)
Selected for the 2020 Ultimate List of Diverse Children’s Books
A Meeting in the Sky, Creative Editions, 2019
Diwali Lights, Orca Book Publishers, 2018
Holi Colors, Orca Book Publishers, 2018
The Fabulous Fannie Farmer: Kitchen Scientist and America’s Cook, Calkins Creek, 2024
The Pig War: How a Porcine Tragedy Taught England and America to Share, Calkins Creek, 2020
2021 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies book: cbcbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/NSSTB2021_Preview1.pdf
Starred review, School Library Connection
Starred reviews from Booklist and The Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books
A fall 2020 Junior Library Guild selection
Claude: The True Story of a White Alligator, Little Bigfoot, 2020
Ten weeks on the Northern California Independent Booksellers Bestseller List
Missouri School Librarians Dogwood Book List for Nonfiction
Starred review from Kirkus
Odin: Dog Hero of the Fires, West Margin Press, 2020
Gavin McNally's Year Off (series of four), ABDO, 2019
Gavin McNally's Year Off, Escaping the Fire (Book #1)
Gavin McNally's Year Off, Weathering the Blizzard (Book #2)
Gavin McNally's Year Off, Saving the Alligators (Book #3)
Gavin McNally's Year Off, Hunting the Treasure (Book #4)
To Live on an Island, Little Bigfoot, 2019
Northern California Independent Booksellers Bestseller List
Maddy McGuire, CEO (series of four), ABDO, 2018
Maddy McGuire, CEO, Pet Camp (Book #1)
Maddy McGuire, CEO, Pop-Up Movie Theater (Book #2)
Maddy McGuire, CEO, Crafting for a Cause (Book #3)
Maddy McGuire, CEO, Bring Back the Bees (Book #4)
Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West, Little Bigfoot, 2016,
Bank Street College's Cook Award
Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award
Finalist Crystal Kite
Finalist WA State Book Award
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Grounded, Amulet Books (May 9, 2023)
2024 Walter Award winner: https://bookriot.com/the-2024-walter-award-winners-for-youth-literature/
Hold Them Close, HarperCollins (October 4, 2022)
Abdul’s Story, Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (March 29, 2022)
Your Name is a Song, The Innovation Press, 2020
2021 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies book: cbcbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/NSSTB2021_Preview1.pdf
2021 Donna Norvell Book Award Masterlist Nominee: oklibs.org/page/NorvellAward
African American Children’s Book Project’s Best Picture Books of 2020: african-american-childrens-book-projects-best-picture-books-of-2020/
2020 Best of the Best lists for Kirkus Reviews and Chicago Public Library
2020 Time Magazines Best Children’s and YA Books of the Year: time.com/5914438/best-ya-childrens-books-2020/
2020 Best Books - New York Public Library: nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/best-books/kids
FirstBook Title Raves of 2020: firstbook.org/blog/2020/12/28/2020-first-book-title-raves/
Little Feminist: The Best New Children's Books of 2020: littlefeminist.com/2020/12/18/best-new-childrens-books-of-2020/
Black Caucus of ALA 2020 Best of the Best: 2020_Best_of_the_Best.pdf
The 2020 Nerdies: Picture Books Announced by John Schu: 2020-nerdies-picture-books/
Kidlit Creators' Faves of the Year 2020: anitraroweschulte.com/blog/2020picturebookpicks
Book Riot 20 Must-Read Picture Books from 2020: bookriot.com/2020-picture-books/
God Made You Too, WorthyKids, February 8, 2022
Seasons on the Farm, illustrated by Karen Bunting, Sleeping Bear Press, Spring 2025
Inspire the World - A Kid’s Journey to Making a Difference, Clear Fork Publishing/Spork, 2021 (First printing)
Love Grows Here, illustrated by Violet Kim, Albert Whitman, April 2024
The Puzzler’s Guide to Alaska, West Margin Press, 2021
The Puzzler’s Guide to Oregon, Turner Publishing, October 2023
Light and Air, Holiday House, Spring 2024
Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection 2024
A Penny’s Worth, Page Street Kids, April 5, 2022
A Dollar’s Grand Dream, Page Street Kids, July 11,2023
Aliya's Secret- A Story of Ramadan, Owlkids, October 17, 2023