ABOUT GINGERBREAD HOUSE

 
 

The Little Press that Can Does It Again!

Gingerbread House Keeps Wowing Reviewers and Scooping Up Awards

It isn’t every start-up children’s book publisher that can boast so many important international awards and citations for its original titles, but it’s even more astonishing when the list is comprised of only six original titles.


Gingerbread House, consistently has been sweeping reviewers off their feet and bagging prestigious awards. Four of Gingerbread House’s original titles were named to the coveted “Children’s Book Sense 76,” (The Picks List) a compilation of recommendations from the American Booksellers Association, two have won the International Reading Association/Children's Book Council's "Children's Choices" award, and one has been honored with the most important international citation for a trade book with educational application, from The Global Learning Initiative, which is a partnership between the Association of Educational Publishers and the Bologna Children's Book Fair. In addition to their being recognized with other significant citations, all five titles have garnered dozens of rave reviews from traditional trade and consumer publications.


With Maureen Hyde, who illustrated the three reprints that comprised Gingerbread House's launch list, the press has released FRANCIS WOKE UP EARLY, an imagined moment from the boyhood of St. Francis of Assisi. In the many years since Maureen painted the three titles on the Gingerbread House list, she has been dedicating herself to advancing her craft, reviving authentic Old Master techniques. We think you’ll be enchanted--and perhaps even astounded--by the extraordinary work this American artist is accomplishing. 





The Citations and Awards


FRANCIS WOKE UP EARLY

Starred Review in Publishers Weekly

ForeWord Book of the Year Award Finalist

Green Book Festival Winner

Mom’s Choice Gold Award

Moonbeam Gold Book Award

Nautilus Book Award

National Indie Excellence Gold Book Award

Storytelling World Honor Award



IN ENGLISH, OF COURSE

Named to the “Best Books for Children" list

by the Association of Booksellers for Children


Named to the "Children's Choices Best Books Catalog"

by the Association of Booksellers for Children


Learning® Magazine “Teachers' Choice" Award

(The most important award for educational products.)


“Chapman Award" for Best Classroom Read-Alouds, awarded by Esme' Raji Codell


An ABA (American Booksellers Association) Book Sense "Pick of the Lists"


A PBS TV Teacher's Source "Recommended Book"


The IPPY (Independent Publisher) Award  


THE NUMBERS DANCE, A COUNTING COMEDY

An International Reading Association-Children's Book Council

"Children's Choices" Award Winner


Named to the “Best Books for Children"

list by the Association of Booksellers for Children


ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Finalist


An ABA (American Booksellers Association) Book Sense "Pick of the Lists"


SHOW DON'T TELL!, SECRETS OF WRITING

“Best Trade Book with Educational Application"

Given by the Global Learning Initiative,

a partnership between the Bologna Children's Book Fair,

and The Association of Educational Publishers


An International Reading Association-Children's Book Council

“Children's Choices" Award Winner


An Honors National Parenting Publications Award (NAPPA)


ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Finalist


A Parents' Choice Recommended Award Winner


An ABA (American Booksellers Association) Book Sense "Pick of the Lists"


TAKE IT TO THE QUEEN, A TALE OF HOPE

CPA (Catholic Press Association) Award


Named to the “Best Books for Children"

list by the Association of Booksellers for Children


An International Reading Association-Children's Book Council

“Children's Choices" Award Winner


Mom’s Choice Gold Award for Most Distinctive Picture Book Illustration


Mom’s Choice Gold Award


Winner of a Moonbeam Gold Award


THE WEIGHT OF A MASS, A TALE OF FAITH

CPA (Catholic Press Association) Award


An ABA (American Booksellers Association) Book Sense "Pick of the Lists"


"One of The Best Children's Books of the Year"

Selected by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education


GRANDPA LOVED

Named to the “Best Kids’ Books of the Year"

list by Parents Magazine


GRANDMA’S SCRAPBOOK

Winner of a Gold Mom’s Choice Award






Foreign Right Agreements

Have Been Reached with the Countries Below:    

(All other rights remain available.)


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    Austria

    Germany

    Switzerland


  1. BulletTHE NUMBERS DANCE, A COUNTING COMEDY

    Korea


  1. Bullet SHH! THE WHALE IS SMILING

    Korea


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    China


  1. Bullet TAKE IT TO THE QUEEN, A TALE OF HOPE

    Austria

    Germany

    Latin America

    Spain

    Switzerland

       

  1. Bullet THE WEIGHT OF A MASS, A TALE OF FAITH

    Austria

    Germany

    Korea

    Latin America   

    Portugal

    Spain

    Switzerland





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Gingerbread House books are distributed by

Independent Publishers Group (IPG)


 

Gingerbread House is a proud member of the Children's Book Council  

and participates in American Booksellers' Association's Indie Bound Programs

, and the press is run from a gambrel cottage in the yard of a writer mother and her art-director daughter, Maria Nicotra, who is a graduate of home-schooling