NorthSouth Books

03/06/2025

"There is nothing basic about the adjectives offered to this book's intended young audience. In fact, if any children of your acquaintance start calling things 'pear-a-licious' or 'forest-floor-squishy,' you will know what they’ve been reading.”
-The New York Times

We're thrilled that The New York Times recognizes what makes “A Chest Full of Words" so special!

Rebecca Gugger and Simon Röthlisberger, with Tim Mohr's beautiful translation, have created something truly magnificent–a picture book that celebrates sophisticated, wonderful language and trusts young readers to embrace it.

Thank you to The New York Times Books for this incredible review! 📚✨

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/books/review/language-childrens-picture-books-a-chest-full-of-words-ashimpa.html

30/04/2025

We are passionate about translation, including translating popular works into Spanish! Check out this CBC feature on the Art of Translation, featuring ¡Vamos a surfear! translated into Spanish by Isabel C. Mendoza!

30/04/2025

Check out "Adam and His Tuba" and other amazing titles from Slovenia!

by Brigita Orel Slovenian children’s books are rarely translated into other languages but when they are, they tend to represent the very best of what Slovenian authors have to offer. Among the foll…

05/02/2025

A Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans.

Over fifty organizations representing authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, distributors, and more have signed this joint letter objective to censorship in the Trump Administration’s executive order on gender identity.

The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically.

We proudly join with American Booksellers for Free Expression - ABFE to stand against this executive order and the impact it will have on .

15/11/2024

Join NorthSouth Books at the National Council of Teachers of English conference next weekend! Highlights include in-booth highlights with Publisher Spotlight (booth # 504), signings with authors Rina Singh and Lawrence Schimel, and a panel on using translated books in the classroom with NorthSouth and USBBY.

We hope to see you there!

14/11/2024

Don’t miss our list of Featured Fall Books for Young Readers, with new poetry titles for children, YA novels in verse, and books by poets for young readers from our partners and advertisers including Carolrhoda Books, Enchanted Lion Books, NorthSouth Books, Norton Young Readers, and Wayne State University Press: https://poets.org/featured-fall-books-young-readers

30/10/2024

Get ready for Halloween with an exciting read aloud from author April Suddendorf!

"Wacky Witches and Their Peculiar Familiars" is filled with the unconventional! Pigs, mice and giraffe as pets? Find out how each of these peculiar familiars best serves their loyal witch.

What animal would you choose?