We publish the books we could not find.

Mirrors and windows

A book should be both.

A mirror shows a child someone like themselves. A window shows them someone who is not. Most children get plenty of one and not enough of the other, and which one they are short on depends entirely on who they are. That imbalance is the reason this press exists.

So the catalog runs in two directions at once. The Young Learners Series and the Juneteenth titles put Black American history in front of a four-year-old at a scale a four-year-old can hold. The SEL Collection does something different: it hands every child, whoever they are, the words for what is happening inside them. And the Legacy Series turns the whole thing around and points it at a reader in their eighties, because the people in those pages were not history to them. They were the news.

What we will not do

We do not put a label on a generic book and call it representation. Every figure in every volume is researched. Every biography is written for the specific age of the reader holding it. Every illustration is original work made for that page, not a photograph traced and recolored.

We also do not pretend a coloring book is a curriculum, or that a picture book is a clinical intervention. The books do what books do. Teachers and activity directors do the rest, and they are better at it than we are.