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The Wall Street Journal reviews The Complete Baby and Toddler Cookbook!

4/19/2019

We are thrilled to share that The Complete Baby and Toddler Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen was featured in The Wall Street Journal.

"As many a fatigued parent will tell you, persuading toddlers to eat well can be a challenge. To make the process easier, the cooks at America’s Test Kitchen have done a wonderful job of assembling appetizing and slyly audacious recipes for babies and young children in “The Complete Baby and Toddler Cookbook” (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 294 pages, $24.99). Pear and zucchini puree, savory oat cakes, glazed tofu sticks: Each recipe is laid out with photographs, a paragraph explaining why the dish works and the appropriate age to introduce it. For those who can handle a messy kitchen, there’s also a great chapter about cooking with your kids, which remains one of the best ways to get culinary buy-in from finicky young eaters." —Meghan Cox Gurdon

The full article can be found here.

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Trade Review Roundup: Week of January 7, 2019

1/11/2019

We are happy to share trade reviews for titles across all of our imprints this week. Click "Read More" below for more about the books, the authors, and the reviews.

The Doughnut Fix by Jessie Janowitz is a 2018 Cybils Finalist

1/4/2019

We are excited to share that The Doughnut Fix by Jessie Janowitz is a 2018 Cybils Finalist! The book appears on their 2018 Middle Grade Fiction list.

The Cybils are the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards, which aim to recognize the children’s and young adult authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal. Committee members make up a long list of kidlit influencers and include everyone from teachers and school and public librarians, to booksellers and general kidlit aficionados.

Click "Read More" below to learn more about the book and the author.

Sweet Treats & Delicious Reads from Sourcebooks Kids

12/20/2018

Happy holidays from the Sourcebooks Kids Team! We don’t know about you, but this time of year means one of two things—sweet treats or delicious reads. Well, why not both? We’ve paired some of the mouthwatering recipes from our 2018 #1 New York Times bestseller, The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs from America’s Test Kitchen with some of our favorite reads of the year. Dig in!

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD THE RECIPE

Stay tuned for tomorrow's post featuring some of our adult titles!

Trade Review Roundup: Week of December 17

12/18/2018

We are happy to share trade reviews for titles across all of our imprints this week. Click "Read More" to learn about the reviews, the books, and the authors.

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore and The Gross Cookbook by Susanna Tee are on the 2019 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List

12/18/2018

We are happy to share that The Radium Girls by Kate Moore and The Gross Cookbook by Susanna Tee are on the 2019 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List.

The purpose of the Texas Topaz Reading List is to provide children and adults with recommended nonfiction titles that will encourage reading and personal learning. It is intended for recreational reading and is not designed to support any particular curriculum.

The titles on the list are those the Topaz committee felt represented the best Nonfiction titles of the past three years! The list is promoted to Texas librarians as those titles they should consider when making their collection decisions.

Click "Read More" to learn more about the books and authors. Click here to see the full Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List.

Illegal is a Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2018

12/13/2018

We are so excited to share that Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, illus. by Giovanni Rigano, has been named one of Barnes & Noble's Best Books of 2018!

This marks the fifth "Best of 2018" list for Illegal. The graphic novel has also appeared on the following lists:

New York Public Library's Best Books of 2018
Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2018
Kirkus Reviews's Best Middle-Grade Graphic Novels of 2018
Amazon's Best Books of the Year

An incredibly raw and and piercing look at the current plight of undocumented immigrants, Illegal is an important story that we were honored to share with readers. We couldn't be more grateful for the fantastic support this book has received, and we can't wait to publish more amazing, eye-opening graphic novels that respectfully tackle the serious political and social issues of our past and present. (Stay tuned for more on that!)

Keep reading for a recap of Illegal's highlights from the past year.

Poetry Speaks to Children on NPR All Things Considered

12/12/2018

We are excited to share that Poetry Speaks to Children, the book that launched Sourcebooks into children’s book publishing and spent 17 weeks on the New York Times list, was recommended on NPR All Things Considered as the perfect introduction to poetry for kids.

NPR poetry reviewer Tess Taylor said,

“For young and maybe even middle grade kids there's a wonderful collection [edited] by Elise Paschen called Poetry Speaks to Children and it's full of poems that are silly and have wonderful sounds in them. It has even that Shakespeare sonnet: 'Double, double toil and trouble;/ Fire burn and cauldron bubble.' It has a poem about farts in it — always a hit! ... And I think that the poems are so fun that they remind you that poems are just for being in your mouth and helping you have a little bit of joy in language.”

Shark Lady by Jess Keating, illus. by Marta Alvarez Miguens, is a 2020 Grand Canyon Reader Award nominee

12/12/2018

We are happy to share that Shark Lady by Jess Keating, illus. by Marta Alvarez Miguens, is a 2020 Grand Canyon Reader Award nominee! Click "Read More" below to learn more about the book and the author.

After Zero by Christina Collins is on the 2019 Texas Lone Star Reading List

12/11/2018

We are thrilled to share that After Zero by Christina Collins is on the 2019 Texas Lone Star reading list! Click "Read More" below for more information about the list, the book, and the author.