Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing

12/30/2025

We are giving publishing rights back to authors for some of our books and will no longer carry them after December 31, 2025. If you wish to order copies of them you must do so TODAY OR TOMORROW. The books include:

a. Little People and the Water of Life
b. Do Rabbits Have Habits
c. Picking Sweetgrass
d. Fishing by Torchlight
e. Little Dandelion
f. Raven Calls
g. Murphy, the Boss Cat of Little Earth
h. Our Stories

11/15/2025

Allison Horner did such an incredible job with the illustrations in The Naming of Aki. The images are amazing. Here is something from the Minneapolis Tribune.

A leaf fort, a war hero and a cold-averse penguin are featured in these titles, all with local connections.

11/14/2025

I Will Remember For You by Collette Pederson (Grand Portage Nation) is now available on our website blackbearsandblueberries.com at a retail price of $12.95. A touching story about a young Native boy who is beginning to experience the onset of dementia in his grandmother. This book should be a must read to young people in schools, and available to social service agencies working with our aging population.

10/20/2025

In hard cover.

By Thomas Peacock

10/18/2025

10/18/2025

The Naming of Aki is out. Allison Horner did an incredible job illustrating the story.

09/21/2025

We've published a beautiful new book by Collette Pederson of Grand Portage, Minnesota - I Will Remember For You, a children's book about alzheimer's. The book is only available on Amazon and is being sold at cost.

09/21/2025

Eleanor Ching LaFave, author of Gentle Winds, will have a book event this upcoming Friday, September 26 at the Cloquet, Minnesota Library, Cloquet, Minnesota, from 4:00-5:00 PM.

09/06/2025

We've teamed up with Room to Read, an international organization that promotes literacy by providing books in marginalized communities throughout the world. We'll be publishing books for the Oceti Sakowin (Dakota, Nakota, Lakota), Alaska Native, Hawaiian Native, Ojibwe, Cherokee, Choctaw and Dine' (Navajo) people this coming spring 2026. Our authors will be:

Leslie Apple (Pine Ridge Lakota)
Brad Wagnon (Oklahoma Cherokee)
Chelsea Elizabeth Tyagi (Oklahoma Choctaw)
Allison Waukau (Dine')
Sheri Hunani Maxwell (Native Hawaiian)
Jackie Schaeffer (Inupiaq)
Tom Peacock (Ojibwe)

The books will be distributed free of charge to schools, libraries and other organizations in each tribal nation by the Room to Read organization.