Video Thursday: Everyone’s Reading Yummy

October 21, 2010 – 11:58 am

We know we’ve done something right when readers share their excitement for our books with the entire Internet. Amy Cheney, librarian at Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center, is one of those excited readers: she made a video with other staff at the ACJJC, all explaining why they love Yummy and why it’s great for the [...]

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A YUMMY update

September 14, 2010 – 5:00 pm

Just popping on the blog to share a little more good news: Yummy has received its fourth (yes, FOURTH!) star, from the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books: DuBurke’s gritty black-and-white artwork employs foreshortened backgrounds to bring the action right up in the reader’s face, whether it’s talking heads calmly discussing their theories on [...]

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A sky full of stars!

August 23, 2010 – 12:39 pm

It’s an exciting day in the office—we just got news of Yummy‘s third starred review! The major review journals give stars to books they consider truly exceptional, above and beyond typical standard for books—and multiple stars show a consensus on the greatness of the book. Three is pretty special! Here are samples from the stars: [...]

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Oprah!

June 7, 2010 – 2:25 pm

Well, this is exciting! Oprah’s Book Club just released its 2010 Kids’ Reading List, full of books recommended by the American Library Association—and our very own Tofu Quilt makes an appearance! It’s one of seven books recommended for kids ages 10 to 12, and it’s in really great company. Tofu Quilt isn’t the only book [...]

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Gracias • Thanks wins a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor!

January 18, 2010 – 8:22 am

Gracias • Thanks by Pat Mora, illustrated by John Parra, has been awarded Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor! Given by the Association for Library Services to Children, the Belpré Award and Honors are given to Latino/Latina authors and illustrators whose work celebrates the Latino experience. We’re very proud of the book, and we’re very pleased that [...]

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Happy 100th Birthday, Bank Street Children’s Book Committee!

October 8, 2009 – 3:52 pm

This morning, we went up to the Bank Street College of Education for the announcement of their Best Children’s Books of the year list—and to celebrate, with cake, the centennial of the Children’s Book Committee. Every year for the last one hundred years, The Children’s Book Committee—then of Child Study Association of America, now of [...]

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What a Starred Review looks like from my desk

October 2, 2009 – 11:03 am

We have a bell on the wall in the office. It’s the good-news bell; whenever we get a starred review, an award, or a really big order, the bell is rung, the staff gathers around it, and the news is announced to the office. Jason, as publisher, is the first to know when we get [...]

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¡Gracias por la estrella! Thanks for the starred review!

September 18, 2009 – 2:00 pm

Woot! GRACIAS • THANKS by Pat Mora is our second book this fall to get a starred review from Kirkus (a review journal certainly not known for dishing them out freely). Since it’s running later than our other fall titles, this is the first review we’ve gotten in, so we were all pretty excited this [...]

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Seeing Stars

August 18, 2009 – 6:39 pm

Just got word that The East-West House, Christy Hale’s biography of Isamu Noguchi, earned a star from the not-easily-impressed Kirkus Reviews! Thanks, Kirkus! The review says, “Hale’s striking illustrations and the book’s elegant look are an homage to the Japanese landscape.”  Can’t resist posting two of my favorites: OK, gushing done.

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