Books for Kids

Suzanne Bloom Book Launch

June 30 Oxford Library 8 Fort Hill Park Oxford NY... Read More

Suzanne Bloom Book Workshop

June 29 Putnam Valley Library Book workshop with 10-12... Read More

Alex Prud’homme Storytime

Come meet Julia Child’s grandnephew, listen to a read-aloud of his book BORN HUNGRY, and walk around Stone Acres Farm! This event is in partnership with the Yellow Farmhouse Education... Read More

7 Creative Children’s Books All About Artists

Inspire your budding artist with these picture books about renowned art figures and their influence on the way we see the world... Read More

Floyd Cooper

The Floyd Cooper Collection

Floyd Cooper strove to share Black experiences rooted in history not typically taught in U.S. classrooms. While Cooper may no longer be... Read More

Batter up! 4 Children’s Books for Baseball Lovers

Batter up! If your little slugger has yet to discover the joy of reading, stories about baseball are just the thing to entice them... Read More

6 Poetry Collections about Animals

6 Poetry Collections ALL About Animals

From our feathered friends to slithery snakes, the poetry books featured here celebrate all animals that walk, fly, swim, dig, and crawl... Read More

anticipated books 2022

Our Most-Anticipated Books of 2022

Astra Publishing House has a lot of great books coming in 2022. Here are our most anticipated book releases... Read More

Loujain Alhathloul, Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers

Sunflowers for Loujain: Using Picture Books to Tell the Stories of Human Rights Defenders

A guest post by Lina AlHathloul and Uma Mishra-Newbery As human rights activists and co-authors of Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers: A Story Inspired by Loujain AlHathloul, we have been asked... Read More

Why Garfield? by Gail Jarrow

“Why Garfield?” by Author Gail Jarrow

Why did I choose to write about James Garfield’s assassination?  Many people have asked me this question since the October 2021 publication... Read More

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