Enchanted Lion Books, 248 Creamer Street, Studio 4, New York, NY (2025)

02/21/2025

Because humor is perhaps life's greatest existential tangent to live along... & Mulysses have given us many much needed hours of transport & delight.

02/20/2025

Listening to the other day, we were reminded of Ted Hughes' Crow poems, and the distinction he draws between laughter that is bitter and destructive and the laughter that is defiant, creative. The two attend, it seems, to the same calamity––the tragic nature of human life and the terrible fact of loss––but each response reflects a radically different way of seeing. In "Kamau & ZuZu find a Way" by poet Aracelis Girmay, illustrated by , we are gorgeously given the defiant and creative, with Grandma ZuZu intent, despite all sorrow, on giving her grandson Kamau (to use the words of C.S. Lewis) "the spark that starts the engine of loving."

02/17/2025

💚 Now LIVE on the blog: an interview with our very own Emilie Robert Wong about translating ’s ON ALL FOURS!

ON ALL FOURS follows the adventures of a curious little bear cub as he sets out to explore the world on his own. Read the full interview to learn more about Emilie’s multilingual background, her approach to translating books for younger readers, and why she thinks this delightful picture book is important for families today! 🐾🐾

02/16/2025

Curl up & enjoy some with us! 💛 This morning we have for you the first panels of MULYSSES, a graphic novel by , one of Norway’s greatest cartoonists 🇳🇴✍️⭐️

There is so much to love about this book (and so much in store for our hero, Mulysses!) These panels show Mulysses at the beginning of his story as he moves about his ordinary life, in his ordinary job. Enjoy the quiet humor & brilliant cartooning of these illustrations & let us know if you would like to see more next week! 💛

02/15/2025

Looking for a lovely & inspiring read? Katherine Rundell has written a beautiful & eloquent essay for on the particular joys & importance of writing for children (link in comments) Her words perfectly capture the heart of what we believe : that children’s books should spark curiosity, wonder, and astonishment; that children’s books should ask and explore; and that children’s books should nourish the capacity of young readers to dream.

The cozy, quiet illustrations are from BEAR AND WOLF, a gorgeous children’s book about an unlikely friendship, by the inimitable ❄️🐻🐺❄️

”Why Children’s Books?” By Katherine Rundell
❄️London Review of Books | Vol. 47 No. 2
❄️6 February 2025
❄️Link in comments!

02/15/2025

🌟I’M LIKE A TREE AND A TREE’S LIKE ME (out this April!) has received its first review—and earned its first STAR! 🥳

calls this picture book that traces the similarities between a growing child and a growing tree “a gift that deserves to be shared,” with an “affirming message,” praising ’s “spare yet playful” text and ’s “simultaneously majestic and quirky” art, also noting the “simple but effective die cuts appearing on nearly every spread.”

We can’t wait for you to read this charming, lovely, exquisitely constructed picture book later this spring! 🫶

02/14/2025

One of the beauties of children's picture books is how they ask us (and that they do) to keep faith with goodness, despite all else that we know to be true. They show us pure heartedness and the possible as goodness, and dare us to believe. And in so doing, they also say: what if it is precisely through believing that we make goodness real?

Images from: The Amazing & True Story of Tooth Mouse Perez by ; Ice by Arthur Geist; What Do You Know? by .

02/04/2025

We are thrilled to announce that today is publication day for OLD AS STONE, HARD AS ROCK: OF HUMANS AND WAR by . In this picture book for adults and teens, Sanna wordlessly explores our human capacity for creation and destruction—how we shape beauty with our hands while also raising up our arms with murderous rage to make war and destroy—through powerful illustrations that are as beautiful as they are heartbreaking.

Sanna is considered one of Italy’s leading contemporary illustrators and we are proud to have worked with Sanna on several of his previous, boundary bushing picture books: PINOCCHIO: THE ORIGIN STORY and THE RIVER. Turning the pages in one of his books reveals page after page of masterful visual storytelling: he utilizes color, media, composition, and pacing to powerfully communicate emotion and narrative.

In the book we are celebrating today, he draws us into a world of elemental, seemingly eternal contradiction.

02/03/2025

has reviewed two of our forthcoming books by in this weekend’s Book Review! ✨✨✨

Remembered as the father of modern Italian children’s literature, Rodari was a storyteller, journalist, and educator who championed the liberating power of the imagination. He came of age under the rise of Mussolini’s Fascism, and in the rebuilding of post–WWII Europe, he saw stories as a crucial, radical way to foster hope, resistance, and respect in audiences young and old—a powerful legacy his stories continue to hold to this day.

After TELEPHONE TALES and THE BOOK OF WHYS, we’re excited to be publishing two more of Rodari’s major works: his nonfiction guide to inventing stories with and for children, THE GRAMMAR OF FANTASY (translated by Jack Zipes and illustrated by ), and the last novel he wrote before his death, LAMBERTO, LAMBERTO, LAMBERTO (translated by Antony Shugaar and illustrated by ). Like all of Rodari’s works, these two titles are bursting with imagination, wit, humor, and whimsy, but also Rodari’s deep respect for the intelligence of children and the dignity of humanity.

We would love for you to preorder these books from any of these four stores—, , , —or at your favorite independent bookstore or Barnes & Noble. We can’t wait for you to read these two amazing titles later this spring!

01/30/2025

Not one, not two, but FIVE (!!!) ELB books have been selected for the list! 👏👏👏👏👏

This annual list lifts up exceptional books for children and young adults that were first published in a country other than the U.S, representing the best of children’s literature from around the world. ’s goal is that these titles will help young
people in the U.S. to build bridges of international understanding through the books they read from other cultures, and we’re thrilled that five of our books were selected!

FROM ENCHANTED LION

🧵Loose Threads🧶 — a delightful picture book inspired by a Palestinian shawl & created by Argentinian artist , translated from Spanish by

🏝️Johnny, the Sea, and Me🦜 — a heartwarming middle grade coming-of-age novel from Colombia, written by , illustrated by .pal.cielo, translated from Spanish by

FROM UNRULY (our imprint of picture books for teens & adults)
🕯️Our Beautiful Darkness💫 — written by Angolan literary superstar & illustrated by , this is a fully illustrated YA novella about the wide-ranging conversation between two teens the night of a blackout, trans. from Portuguese by

🛝We Go to the Park🦋 — from Italian artist & Swedish author , this is a lyrical exploration of freedom, play, and life itself, trans. from Swedish by

✍️The Book of Denial♥ — from two of Mexico’s most daring creators, author & designer , comes a horror story & ghost story unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, trans. from Spanish by

Swipe through for a peek inside the pages of these outstanding titles and at what chair Rachel Roseberry wrote in a ’s feature titled “Words with Purpose” that showcased the full list!

01/27/2025

So honored that JOHNNY, THE SEA, AND ME was recognized today by the as a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book!

This honor is awarded to a children’s book publisher for a children’s book originating from a country other than the United States and in a language other than English. JOHNNY, THE SEA, AND ME written by and illustrated by .pal.cielo was masterfully translated from Spanish by 🇨🇴📖🌊

Paulson found subtle ways to weave Colombian magical realism into the spare text to communicate a sense of place and emotional truth. We believe in this book and its beautiful story and hope you cross paths with it one day.

01/23/2025

We are honored and delighted that Betsy Bird has read and enjoyed our lineup of books for Spring 2025 📖⭐️🦁We are at this beautiful moment of witnessing these upcoming books here, stacked on our table, arriving after months and years of artistic production. Boxes stand by ready to be filled and soon they will be on their way out into the world ☺️

Thank you, Betsy, for your insightful reviews 💛 Please visit her website (link in images) to read her full write up or swipe to see more >>

01/21/2025

ON ALL FOURS by is out today! This is a gorgeous picture book about exploration, play, budding independence, and parental love told from the vantage point of an intrepid & adorable bear cub, and we can’t wait for you to read it 💚

Rich, saturated illustrations show the little bear immersed in the experience of exploring the natural world: slipping down slopes, splashing in puddles, and feeling tickling and even (ouch!) prickly plants! The immersive, richly textured illustrations are full of charming details and vivid expressions. Children will have fun searching for a playful, red spider that appears throughout the journey. This book perfectly captures the phase of childhood where even the most commonplace experiences are imbued with a sense of awe and wonder. The writing is both rhythmic and minimal, the perfect balance to capture the attention and imagination of even the youngest readers.

ON ALL FOURS is translated from French by Enchanted Lion’s own Emilie Robert Wong. This beautiful and beautifully produced book will be sure to charm not just children, but grown-ups as well. Order your copy of ON ALL FOURS today at your local, independent book shop, on our website, or Amazon.

Happy reading! 🐾🐾

01/19/2025

Bedtime for Bo by is such an incredible book—vital, riveting, and all its own. And its spirit is so beautiful, too—full of tenderness for & delight in what makes a child a child.

01/08/2025

Newly reprinted and just as incredible as ever, THE GOLD LEAF is a gorgeous picture book by and about how greed can transform into gratitude through shared wonder. On almost every spread, the titular gold leaf gleams in golden foil. ✨✨✨

A gold leaf appears in the forest. As soon as the animals notice it, each wants it more than anything else in the world. But in their struggle for it, the leaf is destroyed. Heartbroken, the animals wonder: Will we ever again see such a leaf?

One of the ’s Best Books of the Year, THE GOLD LEAF also received a starred review from , who described it as “a graceful parable with environmentalist echoes,” and praise from , who deemed it “a fable of gratitude, with rich, mystical illustrations that will stir the young reader’s heart,” among other accolades.

12/23/2024

This 2024 book from , translated from Spanish by is incredible for the art & how it roots in and grows out of a Palestinian scarf, but it's also incredible for its deep, rich story about the seen and unseen worlds in & with which we live, whether we recognize the unseen or not. This is an essential topic too little explored & here we have it brilliantly manifest through the "right" side & tangled "wrong" side of a scarf. A book for today & always!

12/22/2024

As we sit in the stillness of a year closing into an opening, with what was new becoming old so suddenly, possibly to be forgotten, we want to share some of the beauty of this year with you––beauty that is and will continue to be, even with the turning of the year.

So much quiet and beauty and waiting and self-possession and life in these images from "We Go to the Park" by Sara Stridsberg, translated from Swedish by , illustrated by . So much that is ancient, so much that will be forever new; so much of love and beauty; so much to remember and never forget. A gem of 2024; a gem for always; a gem with which to be young and old.

12/12/2024

Come take a visit to Maple Hill Farm—Alice & Martin Provensen’s home that inspired THE TRUTH ABOUT MAX 🐱🏡✨

For many years, the celebrated Provensens lived at Maple Hill Farm in Dutchess County, New York, with their daughter Karen & many animal friends, including Max 🐾 Max was a real-life cat with a larger-than-life personality—playful yet mysterious, friendly yet utterly his own—and he takes center stage in THE TRUTH ABOUT MAX, a newly discovered picture book from the Provensens which Enchanted Lion had the honor of publishing last year.

Earlier this fall, Karen Provensen Mitchell visited her childhood home ➡️ Swipe through the pictures & read her caption below to discover Maple Hill Farm!

“This white house is the place that Max called home, along with two dogs and three other cats. He was born in this very bed, and he loved to sleep in this cozy corner above the fireplace, especially in the winter.

Max played with many of his farm friends in the yard in the back of the blue barn—dogs, cats, chickens, geese, ducks, & more. The middle part of this barn was my parent’s art studio. This is where they went to work every day. Behind the barn’s door and window was the chicken coop & the feed bins for chickens, ducks, geese, horses, & sheep. Max used to have his own room & bed in this area. The little door would be opened every morning so the chickens could come out... and the chickens would go back inside in the evening. They always liked to sit up high on perches.

In the back yard and garden, just for the fun of it, Max would sometimes just dash up this tree and then dash down again. And this is the hickory tree where my parents’ ashes are buried. My father used to say the tree represented himself and my mother—joined at the base but with two large separate trunks.

Max walked down this lane with us when we went to take a walk into the woods. He was the only cat on the farm who liked to do this! Max also loved walking on top of stone walls. He used to like to sit in the warm sun right here on the stones and watch the barnyard action. He would also explore the many horse fields. Now, his real life begins...”

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