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Celebrate the heritage of Spanish-speaking Americans with these Spanish and bi-lingual books!

With help from the American Library Association, Oprah.com has compiled a list of books for kids. Global Babies made the list of books recommended for infants to two year olds! Click here to view the rest of the list.


Charlesbridge Publishing and the author of Trout are Made of Trees, April Pulley Sayre, have teamed up to challenge you to be a stream hero and help protect our ever-changing environment. Click here for contest information.

Interview with Pat Mora- click here

Click here to email Pat Mora.



A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness ... It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. ~Robert Frost

Sea Queens received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews

Running Shoes is one of the top five choices in "Child Schooling and Work"
concept category and Book of the Month for August 2008 for Rutgers
University EconKids.

Rickshaw Girl
Julia Ward Howe Book Awards
Highly Recommended Honor 2008

Life on Earth starred reviews:
“[B]eautifully designed…” —Booklist
“[E]ngagingly written…” —School Library Journal

Finding Home starred review:
“[S]mooth, elegant poetry…” —Booklist

The Searcher and Old Tree starred review:
“In this book, home is clearly the best place to be..." —School Library Journal

2008-2009 Virginia Readers’ Choice List includes Little Lost Bat

Global Babies is an Oprah pick!
Click here to see other books on her list!

Deep in the Swamp is the winner of the 2008 Southern Independent
Booksellers' Award for Children

Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and The Legend of Hong Kil Dong are on the Young Hoosiers Book Awards nomination list.

Rickshaw Girl is a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Book

Rickshaw Girl is a Skipping Stones Honor Book

Rickshaw Girl is selected for the 2008 Amelia Bloomer project.

The 2008 Storytelling World Award includes Fiona’s Luck.

Piano Piano is a 2008 USBBY Outstanding International Book