Puff Tour Pics!

Want to experience a little Puff magic? Visit our Puff Tour Slide Show to see pictures from Peter Yarrow’s book tour.

Introducing a great way for kids to interact with their favorite Sterling characters.

Just click the button!

Awards & Praise

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes has been awarded the 2006 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award.

Each year, the award is given to African American authors and African American illustrators who have made an outstanding inspirational and educational contribution.

For more info, check out the accompanying article from PW Daily.

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Children spending the summer reading?

Check out these titles as perfect additions to your child’s summer reading list.

Read about these titles and more

Summer Road Trip License Plate Games

Going on a long car trip with your family this summer? Well, I Don’t Care If We’re There Yet: The Backseat Boredom Buster is the perfect book to alleviate your child’s boredom and keep them from asking “Are we there yet? How many more minutes?”

Test drive two activities:
License Plate Games
Road Trip Scavenger Hunt

Peter Yarrow Summer 2008 Tour!

If you or your child are a fan of Puff, The Magic Dragon and Peter Yarrow you won’t want to miss the 2008 Summer Tour! Check the schedule to find out when Peter is stopping in your town. He will be signing books and singing.

Check Tour Schedule

Bummed you won’t see your friends every day during the summer?

Learn from The City Kid & The Suburb Kid and click the image to become pen pals and stay in touch!

Cesar is having a blast -- and you can, too!

Life is great for Cesar the iguana. After all, he went from living in Pets-A-Plenty to an excellent new home in Ms. Lee’s elementary school classroom—with 25 best friends to pamper him. But now spring break has arrived, the kids are gone, and poor Cesar’s a puddle of sadness. Until…he takes a vacation too! From classroom to classroom he wanders, meeting all the other school pets and making hilarious notes in his journal.

Before long, he’s feasting on strawberries, dancing the Iguana Shuffle, and playing hockey in the teacher’s lounge. Will he ever want to return to his cage?

Check out Cesar Takes a Break, written by Susan Collins Thoms and illustrated by Rogé.

Cesar Iguana has found a home at Sterling and is excited to share his thoughts with fans of the book, so if you or any youngsters you know want to ask Cesar a question about his life, or about his spring break vacation, feel free to email him at

CesarIguana@sterlingpublishing.com

Q&A with CSJ!

Christopher S. Jennings, author of Animal Band, likes most every kind of music and watches dog shows for fun. Perhaps that how he came up with such an upbeat, musical storyline about animals! We sat down with Christopher and picked his brain about what drives him as an author and how Animal Band came to be.

Sterling: Congratulations on being a first-time author and illustrator with Animal Band! So, why a children’s book?

CSJ: Because this is something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time. It really ties into a specific period in college; I was a graphic design major and was always drawing, writing stories and creating characters, and then I ended up at a conference where I met four illustrators who told me it was possible.

Sterling: Where did you get the idea for these particular animals?

CSJ: Animals are fun and I wanted it to be a party! And animals are truly universal; they’re not black, white, Asian – - they’re just FUN. Every kid can say, “I love tigers, bears, cats,” whatever… it’s just a totally fun concept.

Read more of our chat with Christopher…

And for more Animal Band facts, click here.