Just two weeks after the announcement of the NAPPA recognition for Ancient and Epic Tales from Around the World, the Parents’ Choice Foundation announced a Parents’ Choice Recommendation for Heather Forest’s remarkable anthology of stories from the world’s great oral traditions.

August House is excited to announce that Conejito, the award-winning LittleFolk picture book, will be released just in time for the holiday season on the new Reading Rainbow Skybrary app and website, readingrainbow.com. 

The National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) has announced Ancient and Epic Tales and Scariest Stories Ever Told as part of the 2016 winners.

August House is thrilled to announce the publication of Scariest Stories Ever Told by Roberta Simpson Brown, otherwise known as the "Queen of the Cold-Blooded Tales." This spooky collection of thirty-three scary stories for kids is perfect for reading aloud at Halloween.

Getting kids to read over the summer break is frequently no easy task. As we move into the hot summer months, teachers and parents will be pleased to know that the August House editorial staff has just released an extensive collection of reading lists that have been carefully curated and organized with specific Guided Reading Levels and Lexile Reading Measures for each book.

August House is thrilled to release the long-awaited final installment of the “Tales from Around the World” trilogy: Ancient and Epic Tales From Around the World, written by award-winning author and storyteller Heather Forest.

40 Fun Fables: Tales that Trick, Tickle, and Teach, written by the award-winning the creative team Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, known as “Beauty and the Beast Storytellers,” was honored as a 2016 Special Storytelling Resource for its collection of fables curated to meet Common Core Reading Standards.

Donald Davis is frequently recognized as a gifted performance artist and “one of the most popular figures on today’s storytelling circuit” (LA Times). Davis’s humor, compassion, and ability to read audiences has earned him such honors as the NSN ORACLE Circle of Excellence and Lifetime Achievement awards.

This upcoming February marks the one-year anniversary of beloved author, poet, folklorist, and professional storyteller Steve Sanfield’s death. In memory of Sanfield’s work and in the spirit of African-American History Month, August House will feature two of Sanfield’s children’s books of African-American stories in the February August House Newsletter: Natural Man: The True Story of John Henry and The Adventures of High John the Conqueror. 

As we quickly approach African-American History Month, August House is pleased to release a comprehensive list featuring all of the publisher’s children’s books written and illustrated by African-Americans. The list includes works by award winning storytellers such as Rob Cleveland (Clever Monkey, Clever Monkey Rides Again) and Bobby Norfolk (Anansi and the Pot of Beans, Anansi Goes to Lunch), as well as many titles featuring folktales from African-American culture. 

Go to Sleep, Gecko! is now available for download as an interactive learning app from esteemed learning platform SmartyPal. Go to Sleep, Gecko!, written by Margaret Read MacDonald, joins The Drum, written by Rob Cleveland, as part of a small but growing collection of award-winning August House picture books adapted for the iPad. 

Today, August House, the leading independent publisher of folktales, announced a strategic partnership with SmartyPal, an innovative learning platform, to adapt August House folktales for the iPad using SmartyPal’s mobile technology engine.