ALL-OF-A-KIND FAMILY HANUKKAH

A note from the author, Emily Jenkins, of All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah…   For this new picture book about Sydney Taylor’s beloved characters, I was honored to work again  with my long-time collaborator, Caldecott and Carle-winning  illustrator Paul  O. Zelinsky. He is amazing and did  huge amounts of historical research so that the book really takes

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The Beautiful Ones

This highly-anticipated release is a brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time—featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir Prince began writing before his tragic death.   The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince—a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around

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Welcome Blue Star Press!

Blue Star Press is proud to announce a new publishing distribution and sales partnership. Starting September 2019, Blue Star Press and its imprint Paige Tate & Co. will be distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services.   “This partnership is an important milestone for Blue Star Press,” said CEO Camden Hendricks. “Our company has grown

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Country Music: An Illustrated History

     It begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns,mountain hollers, and the wide-open West

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