Measure of Success Campaign

Since 1975, Children’s Book Press has led the way as is one of very few nonprofit independent publishers in the country focused on publishing first voice multicultural and bilingual contemporary stories for children by and about people from the Latino, African American, Native American, Asian/Pacific Islander, and multiracial communities. Our award winning books are written and illustrated by writers and artists from the very communities represented in their writing and illustrations. This is what sets Children’s Book Press apart from other publishers of children’s literature.

With national and international distribution, we have published over 95 book titles and have received countless awards, such as the Coretta Scott King Award, Jane Addams Peace and Freedom Children’s Book Award, Pura Belpre Award, and many more.  Several generations of children have benefited from the Children’s Book Press experience. This is a significant measure of our on-going success.

As a nonprofit press, we count on your support to publish children’s literature that provides a voice for underrepresented communities and ensures they are authentically represented. While our publications are sold throughout the country, subject matter is not driven by sales. Our measure of success rests upon our ability to share stories addressing areas such as: South Asian and Filipino American experience; accurate representations of Native American identity; community activism; grief and recovery the validity of home languages and dialects; children’s resourcefulness and imagination; complex identity; and the fragility of civil liberties during wartime.

Make sure this legacy is sustained and support the Measure of Success Campaign. This campaign ensures we can help support the publication and promotion of new titles and also meet the reprinting of publications in demand.

Help promote academic and cultural literacy! Instill a love of reading in children by considering a gift now!

You can give online or give by mail.

You can also discuss a planned gift with a Children’s Book Press representative by emailing development@childrensbookpress.org or calling Gift Processing/Customer Service (415) 543-2665, ext. 17 to connect you with the appropriate individual.

Children’s Book Press is a 501c3 non-profit organization (FED TAX ID#94-2298885).

First Voice: Early Reader Initiative

Do you know that a growing number of literacy initiatives are beginning to explore not only how children learn language, but also how these learning styles are unique to various cultures?—Gloria Corral, Deputy Director of First5 San Francisco

Do you know that early childhood literacy preparation (for ages 0-5 years old) is a pivotal factor in both short and long term success, from youth to adulthood?

Do you know that future prisons are being planned based on education performance statistics of third graders?—Carlos A. García, Superintendent of Schools, SFUSD.

Early childhood reading has positive lifelong benefits.  It greatly increases a child’s future success in school, providing significant intellectual, economic, and social benefit. Providing quality books to children and parents that reflect their lives and experience can make the difference. This is where Children’s Book Press has a unique impact by providing the first voice, multi ethnic, bilingual literary publications for children, families, and others entrusted with their care.

Children’s Book Press is in Phase I of a 5-year First Voice: Early Reader Initiative (Books written from a first voice perspective are those in which the author/illustrator derive from the community about which they are writing).

This initiative incorporates two important components:

• Development first voice multi-ethnic, bilingual board books for early readers (0-5 years) and related imprint of this new line of books; and
• Production of bilingual multicultural books utilized by families and early childhood development professionals who will read them aloud to early readers.

More and more early childhood education experts are reaching the same conclusion.  As they scramble to address youth literacy continues, the need for (and lack of) quality bilingual and multicultural books is becoming increasingly evident to teachers, parents, government agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.  Further, a growing number of literacy initiatives have begun that explore not only how children learn language, but also how these learning styles are unique to various cultures.  It is within this overall arena that Children’s Book Press is quickly becoming a pivotal advisor and resource for its unique first voice multilingual children’s literature.

Your Support can help!

You can directly affect the lives of many children who would otherwise do without the literary resources needed to succeed. Make a difference and consider a gift now.

You can give online or give by mail.

You can also discuss a planned gift with a Children’s Book Press representative by emailing development@childrensbookpress.org or calling Gift Processing/Customer Service (415) 543-2665, ext. 17 to connect you with the appropriate individual.

Children’s Book Press is a 501c3 non-profit organization (FED TAX ID#94-2298885).