Nancy Paulsen Books launched its first hardcover list in Fall 2011. The imprint publishes fifteen books a year and focuses on eye-opening, often funny picture books and fiction from diverse and distinct voices, especially stories that are inventive and emotionally satisfying. These are the kinds of books that are adopted by book clubs and that appear on state lists, generated by the votes of children.
Picture books include the New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López and Miss Maple’s Seeds by Eliza Wheeler, as well as Coretta Scott King Honor winner Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson and E. B. Lewis, Leaves and Honey by Caldecott Honor winner David Ezra Stein, and I Hear A Pickle by Rachel Isadora. Fiction includes National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, Pura Belpré Award winner Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar, and New York Times bestsellers Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt and Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed.
