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07/14/2025

Storm the field with this story of Cristiano Ronaldo from our Tales from the Pitch series by Harry Coninx. Perfect for your sports loving kiddos who need to keep up with their reading this summer.

Check in next week for some reading questions, but for now, happy reading!

07/04/2025

Are you enjoying Riding on Duke's Train? Here are some questions to think about as you read. Comment your answers!

06/30/2025

Up next in our summer reading program is Riding on Duke's train by Mick Carlon, a wonderful novel introducing new generations to the glories and stories of jazz.

Check in next week for some reading questions, but for now, happy reading!

https://leapfrogpress.com/summer-reading-program/

06/27/2025

Congratulations to our 2024 winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize - Michael Konik! His novel Magic Boy was selected as the winner of the adult category and will be published by Leapfrog Press later this year.
Michael Konik is the author of thirteen previous books of fiction, journalism, and memoir, most recently "The Unexpected Guest: How a Homeless Man from the Streets of Los Angeles Redefined Our Home." His essays have appeared in more than 100 periodicals, including The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and The Times of London. A widely published poet writing as MK P***y, he created the 365-poem interactive art experience "The Year of When." Konik lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a dog trainer and plays mediocre chess.
We're so excited to welcome Michael as a Leapfrog author!

06/26/2025

The latest PG Wodehouse book from Paul Kent is here! Grab your copy here: https://www.whatho.club/product-page/plum-s-literary-heroes

P.G. 'Plum' Wodehouse is the greatest humorous writer England produced in the 20th century. The creator of Jeeves and Bertie, the Blandings saga, Ukridge, Mr Mulliner, Psmith and Uncle Fred, his output totalled almost 100 volumes of peerless comic invention. But where did all that material come from? Not just out of his head, no matter how large his hat size: in Wodehouse's case, much arrived courtesy of his voracious reading habits, everything from Shakespeare to W.S. Gilbert via the Bible, Tennyson, Sherlock Holmes, gung-ho schoolboy fiction, gory pulp thrillers, the gloopiest romances and literally hundreds of other writers - even T.S. Eliot. No other writer had a broader range of influences. In his latest groundbreaking study, Paul Kent, author of the Pelham Grenville Wodehouse trilogy of literary biographies teases out Plum's literary roots, and how he expertly blended elements from all these writers and genres into the heady cocktail that keeps the world laughing over a hundred years on from when he first created it. It's an alternative history of English Literature that will also make you laugh out loud.

06/22/2025

As we come up to the end of the first week of Leapfrog’s summer reading program, take some time to reflect on “The Aves” with this reading activity from the author herself, Ryane Nicole Granados:

Power of Place:

Think about a significant place in your life. It can be a neighborhood, one block, inside a building, in your classroom, or a whole town.

DRAW A MAP of that area (in whatever style YOU this is best!).

Power of People:

Think about the other unique people in your place. Add them doing something on your map.

Think about important events that happen there. Add some details to show that. It can even be a symbol or word.

Power of YOU:

When you look at your map, the people, and events, what is the strongest emotion you associate with that place? Write that emotion at the top of your paper.

This is the starting place for your story.

Additional questions for inspiration:

What is something that could happen to You and the other people in that place?

How can your presence change a place?

Think about the power of your name. What does it mean to you?

You are the primary source of powerful storytelling.

06/20/2025

World Refugee Day is an international day organized every year on June 20th by the United Nations. It is designed to celebrate and honor refugees from around the world. The day was first established in June of 2001, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.

Leapfrog Press is proud to publish a number of titles, fiction, non-fiction and YA in verse that explore and expose the plight and resilience of refugees.

Anne Frank Award Winner, Irene Butter’s moving account of her life From Holocaust to Hope.

Reading Claudius, Caroline Heller’s unforgettable dual memoir of her parents’ lives and her own brings to life the lost world of European café culture, and reminds us of the sustaining power of literature in the most challenging of times.

Timothy Jay Smith explores through fiction the plight of contemporary refugees fleeing Syria in Istanbul Crossing and Fire on the Island.

Based on true events, Pamela L. Laskin’s YA free verse, Why No Goodbye? captures the anguished survival of a 13-year-old boy after he is abandoned by his refugee family in war-torn Myanmar.

06/16/2025

To kick off our summer reading program we’re starting with a beautiful coming-of-age story –The Aves by Ryane Nicole Granados.

Check in next week for some reading questions and activities, but for now, happy reading!

06/10/2025

Get your copy of Fire on the Island! https://linktr.ee/fireontheisland

A Journey to Vourvoulos (Not the One on Santorini) From the first page, Fire on the Island transports you to the lesser-known Vourvoulos — not the Santorini village, but a fictional coastal town in Greece where beauty and hardship coexist. Through deeply evocative writing, Timothy Jay Smith doesn&...

06/06/2025

We’re excited to announce a Summer Reading Program of our favorite middle grade & young adult titles from our list. Whether you are immersing yourself in the musical worlds of jazz legends, navigating apocalyptic landscapes alongside futuristic characters, or shooting for the top corner of the net with famed football stars, this collection of books, jam-packed with adventure and intrigue, is bound to keep you entertained all summer long!

Here’s how it works:

The Leapfrog Summer Reading Program is offering seven exciting titles for this year’s reading list. Beginning on June 16th, you will have two weeks to read each book.

An announcement will be posted on our Instagram and Facebook with book info as the program progresses, so keep an eye out for themed discussion questions and activities!

BONUS! If you purchase a copy of The Aves, tag us on either Instagram or Facebook in a photo of you with the book by June 29 and we will enter you in a drawing for the Summer Reading Program Prize…a full set of the remaining reading list books!

Visit our website or the link below for more info and be sure to download the printable map to track your reading progress. We hope you’ll join us on this summer of reading fun!

https://leapfrogpress.com/summer-reading-program/

06/05/2025

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06/04/2025

If you’re in the Boston area, check out our Publishers Focus window display at the Harvard Book Store! Featuring a collection of our Pride titles, prize winners, and Boston authors, there’s something for everyone. Be sure to stop by and see, and tag us in a photo if you do!