We All Go Traveling By

This is a cute book for the 1-3 year olds. On their way to school, the kids see a truck, a bike, a train, etc., all go traveling by.










Hardcover $17.99
Paperback $6.99
Paperback w/ sing-along CD $9.99

November Special Offers!

Barefoot Book of Knights - PB w/CD - Reg. $15.99 - Sale $12.99
Walking Through the Jungle - Paperback - Reg. $6.99 - Sale $4.99
Magic Train Ride - Paperback - Reg. $6.99 - Sale $4.99
Skip Through the Seasons - Paperback - Reg. $7.99 - Sale $5.99
First Morning: Poems About Time - HC - Reg. $15.99 - Sale $14.99
Alligator Alphabet - Board Book - Reg. $7.99 - Sale $5.99
Bunbun the Middle One - Board Book - Reg. $6.99 - Sale $5.99
Farmyard Jamboree - Paperback w/CD - Reg. $9.99 - Sale $6.99
Bear in a Square - Board Book - Reg. $6.99 - Sale $4.99
Magic Hoofbeats - Paperback w/CD - Reg. $16.99 - Sale $13.99
Zoe and Her Zebra - Board Book - Reg. $6.99 - Sale $5.99
Thesaurus Rex - Paperback - Reg. $6.99 - Sale $4.99

Barefoot Books in FAO Schwartz!

The grand opening of the Barefoot Books boutique!

With its floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking 59th Street, the Barefoot Books boutique in the world's most famous toy store is a far cry from the small booth in a faraway aisle of the children's-only section where founders Nancy Traversy and Tessa Strickland made their first U.S. appearance at what was then ABA. Even then, however, they draped the tables in jewel-colored batik fabrics and lined up books alongside puzzles and gift cards that featured their illustrators' work.

The Real Princess: A Mathemagical Tale

Author: Brenda Williams
Illustrator: Sophie Fatus

Ages: 3-6 years

I knew I was going to like this book because I have a Math degree. :-) But I loved it even more as my daughter was following along adding and subtracting with the action of the story. This is a new version of The Princess and the Pea.











From the jacket: "Far away, in a tall, turreted castle, live a king and queen with 3 sons, 4 horses, 6 dogs and many servants (45 altogether). The time has come for the eldest prince to find a wife, but only a *real* princess will do -- and how can he be sure she is real? Fortunately, his mother has a secret magical solution..."

Hardcover $16.99

Libraries weren't always for children

When public libraries were created, they did not allow children. Anne Carroll Moore created the first children's library in 1896. The whole story is here.

...you had to be fourteen, and a boy, to get into the Astor Library, which opened in 1854, the same year as the Boston Public Library, the country’s first publicly funded city library, where you had to be sixteen. Even if you got inside, the librarians would shush you, carping about how the “young fry” read nothing but “the trashy”: Scott, Cooper, and Dickens (one century’s garbage being, as ever, another century’s Great Books).

Boston Globe profile

Wonderful story in the Boston Globe. Barefoot is in talks with PBS!

Barefoot Books' co-founder presenting the Fall 2008 line

Here is Tessa Strickland on Barefoot's 2008 Fall titles. Enjoy!