Holiday House

An Imprint of Holiday House

Since its beginnings in 1935 as the first American publishing house founded with the purpose of publishing only children’s books, Holiday House has been proud to gather together talented authors and illustrators and to publish quality books that entertain, enlighten, and educate children. Known for having a deep list of timeless and award-winning books for children and young adult readers, Holiday House publishes the award-winning I Like to Read®® series of picture books for emergent readers and launched its first eponymous imprints, Margaret Ferguson Books and Neal Porter Books, in 2018.

47 Publications Found

Ida B. Wells and the Untold Truth of a Country
The Story of the Saxophone
The Story of the Saxophone
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Dec 2025
One Big Open Sky
One Big Open Sky
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Aug 2025
I Like Hoops
I Like Hoops
Juwanda G. Ford
Jun 2025
Uncle John’s City Garden (Paperback)
Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between
Of Walden Pond
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Jan 2025
When I Hear Spirituals
When I Hear Spirituals
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Jan 2025
For Lamb
For Lamb
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Jan 2020
I Would Love You Still
I Would Love You Still
Adrea Theodore
Apr 2024
Warrior on the Mound
Warrior on the Mound
Sandra W. Headen
Mar 2024
Creation (25th Anniversary Edition)
Creation (25th Anniversary Edition)
James Weldon Johnson
Dec 2023
Story of the Saxophone
Story of the Saxophone
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Mar 2023
This Is Tap: Savion Glover Finds His Funk
This Is Tap
Selene Castrovilla
Mar 2023
Stitch by Stitch: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly Sews Her Way to Freedom
Stitch by Stitch
Connie Schofield-Morrison
Nov 2021
Being Clem (The Finding Langston Trilogy #3)
Being Clem (The Finding Langston Trilogy #3)
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Aug 2021
Overground Railroad
Overground Railroad
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Jan 2020
Finding Langston
Finding Langston
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Aug 2018
Leaving Lymon
Leaving Lymon
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Jan 2020
Where Is Mommy?
Where Is Mommy?
Pat Cummings
Nov 2019
Octopus Stew
Octopus Stew
Eric Velasquez
Sep 2019
The Creation (25th Anniversary Edition)
Before She was Harriet
Before She was Harriet
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Nov 2017
Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong
Just a Lucky So and So
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Feb 2016
Looking for Bongo
Looking for Bongo
Eric Velasquez
Jan 2016
New Shoes
New Shoes
Susan Meyer
Jan 2015
Ol’ Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story
Ol’ Clip-Clop
Patricia C. Mckissack
Aug 2014
Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
Because They Marched
Russell Freedman
Aug 2014
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Freedom Summer
Susan Goldman Rubin
Mar 2014
Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History
Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Feb 2014
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Here in Harlem
Walter Dean Myers
Dec 2008
Jazz
Jazz
Walter Dean Myers
Sep 2006
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))
Freedom Walkers
Russell Freedman
Sep 2006
First Snow
First Snow
Bernette Ford
Jul 2005
The Creation
The Creation
James Weldon Johnson
Nov 2003
My Family Plays Music
My Family Plays Music
Judy Cox
Sep 2003
Quilt Alphabet (Leveled Books)
Quilt Alphabet (Leveled Books)
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Sep 2001
Celebrating Chinese New Year
Celebrating Chinese New Year
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Sep 1998
Buffalo Days
Buffalo Days
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Sep 1997
Celebrating Hanukkah
Celebrating Hanukkah
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Sep 1996
Ramadan
Ramadan
Suhaib Hamid Ghazi
Sep 1996
The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp: Based on a Classroom Diary
The Children of Topaz
George W. Chilcoat and Michael O. Tunnell
Apr 1996
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
Russell Freedman and Amos Bad Heart Bull
Mar 1996
Running for Our Lives
Running for Our Lives
Glennette Tilley Turner
Dec 1994
The Singing Man: Adapted from a West African Folktale
The Singing Man
Angela S. Medearis
Sep 1994
Celebrating Kwanzaa
Celebrating Kwanzaa
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Sep 1993
Pueblo Storyteller
Pueblo Storyteller
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Mar 1991
Buffalo Hunt
Buffalo Hunt
Russell Freedman
Oct 1988

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