Albert Whitman & Company

09/05/2024

04/22/2024

Celebrate Earth Day with these amazing Albert Whitman titles! 💙 🌍💚

• The Earth Gives More: From leaves falling and becoming fertilizer to raindrops bringing plants to life in the spring, the cycle of every season has something to enjoy. While delighting in all nature offers, we need to remember to respect and treasure the world around us. This sweet rhyming story follows the change in seasons and illustrates how we can all be stewards of the Earth.

• The Big Beach Cleanup: Cora is excited to enter the local sandcastle-building contest—until the contest is canceled due to litter at the beach. Determined to help save their favorite place, Cora and Mama get to work picking up the single-use plastics that have washed onto the shore. It will take more than four hands to clean up the beach, but Cora is just getting started.

• Carried on the Wind: It Starts with a Seed *coming October 2024* Starting with a child’s sigh, this story takes readers around the world, from Alaska to Central America to Africa, and all the way back to where their journey began. With facts about nature woven throughout, this poetic depiction of chaos theory—or the butterfly effect—illustrates how everyone and everything in our world is, ultimately, connected.

04/07/2024

📚 Peek behind the scenes how a book is made with Albert Whitman's own - Josh Gregory and Rick DeMonico!

04/04/2024

Celebrate our April Book Birthdays with us! We are thrilled to welcome these wonderful titles to our AW bookshelves. 📚💙

BEAUTY AND THE BEAKER: When a beast of a storm hits her island home, scientist Beauty discovers a type of green energy that will restore power to the community, and help many others, too.

DANCING THROUGH SPACE: The true story of Dr. Mae Jemison, whose lifelong passions of science and dance prepared her to become a trailblazing astronaut.

LOVE GROWS HERE: Aiko learns that Japanese Americans were once put in prison camps in her own country—the US—and that there are still some people who don’t like her, for no reason. But Aiko also learns that people respond to acts of kindness.

MISSION: MOON: On a field trip to the moon, Abby accidentally gets her friends trapped in an abandoned lab! She’ll have to team up with her friend’s judgmental sister to find a way out.

MUD ANGELS: When the Arno River floods the city of Florence in 1966, it leaves slimy, smelly mud everywhere. Soon students from around the world arrive to oelp save the town’s rare treasures.

WAY PAST MEAN: Ruby likes being part of Yaz and Keya’s group, so when they make fun of the new girl at school, Ruby joins in. It feels like Ruby's on an out-of-control roller coaster, but it’s up to her to stop the ride.

ZOOLOGISTS ON THE TRAIL: This time, the kid scientists are in Yellowstone National Park, checking on a wolf pack they last saw one year ago.

03/19/2024

We're so excited to team up with Cook County's Project Rainbow initiative to bring our inclusive, relevant, and trusted stories to kids in our community! 🌈 📚

Read the official announcement: https://buff.ly/3Pq3smY

Check out some of our FREE storytime videos on the Project Rainbow app: https://buff.ly/3Pr1fb7

Albert Whitman & Company and Cook County's Project Rainbow Launch Collaboration with National Reading Month Resolution. Independent children's publisher Albert Whitman & Company to offer curated collection of inclusive, relevant, and trusted stories to kids through Cook County's Project Rainbow init...

03/11/2024

Sophia aims to fast for Ramadan, inspired by her grandma's belief that fasting adds a sparkle to one's spirit. Facing difficulty in her fasting plan, Sophia discovers alternative ways to engage in this heartwarming multigenerational tale about celebrating Ramadan.

03/08/2024

CONGRATULATIONS to three outstanding AW titles that have been selected for the Green Earth Book Award 2024 Long List!

• Climate: Our Changing World
• We Need the Amazon Rain Forest
• The Ocean Is More Than a Home for Fish

We are thrilled to celebrate The Nature Generation's 20th year of awarding GEBA to outstanding environmental books for children and young adults.

03/07/2024

Celebrate our March Book Birthdays with us! We are thrilled to welcome these wonderful titles to our AW bookshelves. 📚💙

DON’T ASK CAT: Cat always says what’s on his mind, no matter how much his words may upset others. But when he hears his friends talk about him, Cat realizes that words can hurt, even though that may not be the intention.

MY LUCK CHARM: It’s early morning at the cabin. A girl tucks her honeybee good luck charm in her pocket and sets out to catch fish for everyone’s breakfast. She can smell the pine trees, hear the birds, and see the squirrels. But when her line snaps taut and a fish is right on the rock with her, gasping for air, her excitement turns into concern.

OCTOPUS ACROBATICS: Though octopuses live in every ocean and along every US coast, you may never catch a glimpse of one in the wild. All 300 species, from the tiny wolfi octopus to the enormous Pacific octopus, can camouflage themselves by changing color, pattern, and texture. Some octopuses are also capable of regenerating limbs, surviving on land for short periods of time, and fitting through impossibly small spaces!

PURPLE UP! WE SALUTE OUR FRIENDS: April 15 is Purple Up! Day—a day when Americans around the world recognize and celebrate the children who make sacrifices along with their military parents. Classmates mix the colors of the different military branches to create banners that say, “Thank you for your service!”