Stories That Endure
Books for readers from four to ninety‑four.
Spence Heritage Press publishes social-emotional picture books, chapter book series, and large-print reminiscence titles for senior readers. American history and everyday feeling, written so the reader sees themselves on the page.
- Imprint
- Spence Heritage Press
- Parent
- Spence Consultants, LLC
- Location
- Mount Vernon, NY 10550
- Titles
- 23 in print
- Series
- 8 active
- Readers
- Ages 4 to adult
- Ordering
- Purchase orders accepted
- Terms
- Net 30 from invoice
- W‑9
- On request
Who buys from us
The list
Eight series. One question behind all of them.
Will the reader see themselves in this? Everything we publish has to answer yes, whether the reader is four years old and learning to name a feeling, or eighty-four and looking at a face they remember from the evening news.
The Young Learners SEL Collection
Five books, one for each CASEL competency, so a program can adopt the whole social-emotional block at once instead of stitching together five unrelated titles.
5 titles 4 to 6ChiChi Rose & Red Fox, Private Investigators
Three dog detectives work the small mysteries of growing up.
2 titles 4 to 7The Young Learners Series
Coloring and biography in the same book.
5 titles 4 to 7Juneteenth & Family Stories
Galveston, 1865, told at a child's eye level.
2 titles 8 to 10The Shiba Force
Memory, belonging, and the long way home.
4 titles 9 to 11The Amazing Adventures of Bentley Rogers McGee
Bentley gets a brass pocket watch on his thirteenth birthday and learns he is a Witness: he can see what happened, but he cannot change it.
1 title 9 to 11The Dream Book
Journee Maxwell has started eleven businesses and finished none of them.
1 title Adult · senior readersThe Legacy Series
Large-print coloring and reminiscence for assisted living, memory care, and adults at home.
3 titlesBuying more than a copy or two
Two doors, and they are not the same door.
Order at My Young Learners
Family childcare, small centers, and classroom teachers order through our storefront. Bulk pricing starts at twelve copies, mixed and matched across any titles, and the SEL Collection covers all five CASEL competencies with one book each.
The Legacy Series, direct from us
Large print, thick line weights, twenty-five recognizable figures per volume. Built for activity directors who need something that fills an hour and gets residents talking. Order these through the publisher.
Why this press exists
History is for everyone. The books that tell it have not always made room for everyone.
We started here to fix that on two fronts at once: for the elders whose lifetimes overlapped with the figures themselves, and for the children who inherit the story next.
These are not generic books with a label on the cover. Each title is researched, illustrated, and written for a specific reader at a specific age. The chapter books get real historical stakes. The picture books get real emotional stakes. The Legacy Series gets a font size that respects the reader's eyes.