Triangle Square Books for Young Readers

02/25/2025

Happy US pub day to and ’s gorgeous new book HUMAN RIGHTS, translated by Paul David Martin and Martin J Perazzo!

An essential, definitive visual guide and history to the variety of human rights and protections — great for activists, rights defenders, and young readers who love visual learning.

With timelines, easy-to-follow graphics and bite-sized bits of info, this book explains it all: from workers’ rights to the right to a clean environment, and the people who fought to protect those rights.

01/08/2025

Thanks so much to our friends for picking THE DUEL as their January book of the month, and for these beautiful photos!

Posted • New year and a new month means a new pick for book of month…

The Duel - a story about peace by

It came out late last year but I thought it an ideal book to share through out January.

I first came across this one on holiday in Porto in 2023 and am thrilled to see it’s been translated by Rosa Churcher Clarke for

Not only is it a totally beauty of a book it had me thinking lots too, what is it like to question the world, yourself and others, this is a book about war and conflict but mostly about peace.

I look forward to telling and showing you more, plus if you are Lincoln based I will be starting picture book club up again, with this as our first pick, more details to come.

For now find it online and in store with a little Book Of The Month Discount.

Happy Reading!

12/03/2024

Now available in paperback! great American novelist and humanist and author of such classics as Slaughterhouse Five.

Dan Wakefield, a friend and mentee of Vonnegut’s for decades and a fellow Hoosier, distills the facts including Kurt’s novels, essays, interviews, letters and personal experiences, into a beautiful telling of the making of a writer.

Here is an American life, a burgeoning artist’s life to inspire anyone who has read Vonnegut’s work or who themselves aspire to write.

11/22/2024

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Triangle Square Book Clubs: a perfect gift for the radical kid in your life!

https://sevenstories.com/blogs/354-introducing-triangle-square-book-clubs

Triangle Square Book Clubs are monthly kids’ book subscriptions focused on highlighting social justice kids' books and kids' books from around the world.

Whether picture books or chapter books, or people’s history books for tweens, all of the books included in these subscription options promote a radical kindness towards others, and emphasize the importance of standing up for what’s right.

Triangle Square Book Club subscribers receive one (1) book per month over the course of the subscription period, which is typically six or seven months, depending which of the book clubs are selected by the subscriber. The payment method is only charged one time, and the subscription never auto-renews.

11/18/2024

GIVEAWAY 🚨 Win our Little Activist Board Book Bundle: A is for Activist, Counting on Community, and Together.

All you have to do is give us a follow and comment on this post with the phrase “Baby Bloc” ❤️

We’ll contact the winner at the end of the week. Limited to US residents (sorry!). Only one winner will be chosen.

11/12/2024

explore the lush interiors of THE DUEL by Inês Viegas Oliveira, translated by Rosa Churcher Clarke and out today from Triangle Square.

An international award-winning picture book with increasingly detailed water-color art begins as a story about quarrels and conflicts, but is, above all, about making and finding peace. Loosely based on the duel scene from War & Peace, this story will help spark conversations about what can happen when you turn away from violence.

10/31/2024

One of our March titles, HUMAN RIGHTS by Yayo Herrero, illustrated by Luis Demano, translated by Paul David Martin and Martin J. Perazzo, arrived in the office this week! Look how beautiful it is!

10/31/2024

The Children's Book Council’s November Hot Off the Press features THE DUEL: A STORY OF PEACE by Inês Viegas Oliveira, translated by Rosa Churcher Clarke!!

This curated list of new publications is a great resource for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents.

10/03/2024

We are so delighted that CITY GIRLS by Loretta Lopez was shortlisted for the 5th annual Goddard Riverside / The Children's Book Council Young People’s Book Prize for Social Justice!

Stay tuned for the winner announcement on October 9th!

Thrilled to share in the announcement that City Girls by Loretta Lopez, cover design by Dulcepronto (Triangle Square Books for Young Readers) is one of this year's shortlist winners for the 5th annual Goddard Riverside / CBC Young People’s Book Prize for Social Justice.

Learn more: https://www.cbcbooks.org/2024/09/19/2024-goddard-cbc-youth-social-justice-book-prize-shortlist-announced/

09/20/2024

What began as an informal group of volunteer literary translators, armed with the intent to promote globally diverse books for young readers, is now primed to take its mission to greater heights.

09/18/2024

We’re celebrating with our friends at , host of this fantastic upcoming talk with Triangle Square Books authors (“What Makes a Baby,” S*x is a Funny Word,” “You Know, S*x”), (“City Girls”), and Tim Lockette (“Tell it True,” “Atty at Law,” “Atty in Love”)!

Join us on September 23rd as Becky Spratford from ‘RA For All’ interviews Triangle Square Books for Young Readers authors Cory Silverberg, Loretta Lopez, and Tim Lockette about their books that meet young people where they are - and honor their experiences. Learn how these authors are engaging with libraries and thinking about book challenges.

09/12/2024

Over on Daily (!!!) Loretta Lopez, author of the vibrant and insightful CITY GIRLS, hand picked a list of essential reads for middle school girls!

The author of City Girls shares her list of insightful, timeless stories that may just come in handy if you’ve got a tween—or even a teen—heading back to school.

08/02/2024

☀️GIVEAWAY ALERT—Tapioca Stories and Triangle Square Books for Young Readers are teaming up to give away four watery-themed picture books to help keep you cool during the hottest days of the summer!

⛱️To enter, all you need to do is make sure that you are following both the Tapioca Stories and Triangle Square Books Accounts, and then comment down below telling us your favorite book you had to read for summer reading as a kid (we know you enjoyed some of them!)

Winners will be contacted via DM next week!
Good luck! 🍀

04/12/2024

We had such an amazing time celebrating the release of CITY GIRLS on Tuesday night at Greenlight! Thank you so much to everyone who showed up to support Loretta and her wonderful debut!

CITY GIRLS is an American Booksellers Association “Indie Next” pick for April! It is a powerful middle-grade novel about friendship, and we are thrilled to have it out in the world for you or the young reader in your life.

Available now!

03/21/2024

Tonight! Tonight! Tonight!

Author Rebecca Pitts talks about urban planning, Jane Jacobs, Rebecca's new book about Jane Jacobs, and the importance of accessible information for young people!

RSVP:

Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred years ago, yet the ideas she popularized — about cities, about people, about creating a more equitable world — remain hugely relevant today.

03/11/2024

We could not be more thrilled to tell you that we are launching CITY GIRLS, the debut middle-grade novel by LORETTA LOPEZ at the one and only Greenlight Bookstore on April 9th (pub day)!

More info, and RSVP, at the link in our bio!

02/29/2024

So lovely to see author Loretta Lopez and our marketing director Claire Kelley featured in Publishers Weekly! This photo was taken at the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute in Cincinnati, where Loretta was a featured author, showing off her debut middle-grade novel CITY GIRLS!

City Girls is a big-hearted coming-of-age story about three girls who find each other, and themselves, while trying to navigate difficult situations in their lives. We can’t wait to share it with you, in a beautiful hardcover, when it hits stores on April 9th!

02/14/2024

We had such a great time with Loretta Lopez () at Winter Institute, introducing the world to CITY GIRLS!

City Girls is a stunning middle-grade / YA novel, following three girls in New York City:

There’s Alice, the outspoken rebel who quietly carries the weight of her mother’s worsening cancer. There’s Lucia, who brims with confidence despite being caught in her parents’ heartbreaking divorce. And Elisa, who leaves school to go meet with an immigration lawyer, who is helping her navigate the overwhelming asylum seeking process. Together, the girls work together to navigate their situations—finding community, and themselves, in the process.

Overflowing with heart and personality, CITY GIRLS is a stunning and vivid debut, and we are beyond thrilled that it has been chosen as an Indie Next title for March and April.

Don’t miss it when it arrives in stores on April 9th!