Children's Books

Tilbury House publishes award-winning children's books that help young people build character, appreciate cultural diversity, and explore the natural world. For parents and educators seeking to share and discuss the complexities of the world, our books offer opportunities through the stories of real-to-life children in contemporary settings. For instance, books such as Our Friendship Rules and Say Something invite conversation about bullying and teasing; Playing War offers a gentle, but realistic way to discuss the impact of war.

We are publishing three wonderful new picture books this spring/summer, with more to come in the fall. Moon Watchers explores what's alike and what's different as a Muslim family in Maine celebrates Ramadan and sibling rivalry gets resolved. In One of Us, Roberta starts classes at her new school and finds she doesn't quite fit in with any one clique, until she meets a group of friends who are all different and like it that way. Rafael's lunch gets stolen in The Lunch Thief, and he figures out who has taken it. Is he going to pick a fight or settle it another way?

Together with educators who are specialists in their fields, Tilbury House has developed imaginative, user-friendly teacher's guides for many of our books and some stand-alone teacher's guides. We also offer "TEACHERS TAKE NOTE" activity and discussion guides for each of our children's book pages on our website. These guides include literature links and further resources for using our books in classrooms or in homeschool settings. Our books are approved for the California Instructional Materials Fund and the New York State Textbook List, and most are Accelerated Reader™ and Scholastic Reading Counts! books.

Teachers will also find that many of our books can work together for teaching a unit or covering a theme. For suggestions for FOCUSED READING for Positive Choices, please click here to learn more.

One of our goals at Tilbury House is to help children become involved community members, willing to speak up and make decisions in ways that promote harmony and move us all forward with positive change. We work toward that goal by selecting manuscripts that exemplify children as positive problem-solvers and empathetic friends. In simplest terms, our kids care. The SERVICE LEARNING movement is all about focusing the energy of kids who care. At Tilbury House we not only want to affirm the goals of Service Learning—to engage students and teachers in meaningful applications of their studies as service for the common good—we want to become a part of the movement. Please click here to learn more.

—Jennifer Bunting, Publisher
—Audrey Maynard, Children's Books Editor
—Karen Fisk, Associate Children's Book Editor