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Summary: A young girl learns the secret of listening to the creatures around her.
Author: Louise Jamison
Summary: A 1912 children's textbook with a summary of Black history, beginning in Africa, through the diaspora, and into the early 20th century.
Author: Leila Amos Pendleton
Come savor books with us! The slow-release schedule of our boutique publishing house ensures that each project is treated with care, from digitally harvesting text out of old editions through professional proofreading and a fresh “new-old-book” typeset (no bound scans here!). And to set us solidly in the 21st century, we offer ebooks that not only function well, they look nice and don’t break.
We take great care to curate classics that our readers are looking for, and we guarantee the quality of every book.
We’re Smidgen Press: breathing new life into old classics, one volume at a time.
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Smidgen Press’s republished works are produced by people who are passionate about the preservation of classic literature. We are filling gaps in the availability of out-of-print book titles, specializing in quality digital books optimized for modern e-readers, to include accessibility for the visually impaired. (And we love our pretty print editions, too.)
Do you have a hard-to-find book you’d like for your homeschool, book club, or study group? You can request a book below:
In the Works
The Voyagers, a Newbery Honor book
The Voyagers by Padraic Colum tells of oceangoing adventures in the Atlantic, from mythical to historical.
A 1926 Newbery Honor recipient, this hard-to-find edition will soon be ready for everyday readers. Coming in ebook and print form.
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Smidgen Press | The latest blog posts
With outdated terminology in many classics, we want to be especially conscious of racial terms no longer in use.
We don’t believe in censorship, but we want to make readers aware of content they would want to discuss with young readers or avoid altogether. You can find any relevant information here in our blog posts. If you feel we’ve missed any content that should be addressed, please write us at Hello@SmidgenPress.com.
- The Real Fairy Folk | Louise Jamison
If you are looking for wonder and excitement in a literature classic reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland or The Secret Garden, look no further. Smidgen Press has taken special care in republishing The … - Leila Pendleton | Educator, Activist, Author
Leila Pendleton was a Black educator in Washington, D.C. in the early 1900s. She is best known for her school textbook written specifically for Black children, A Narrative of the Negro. This work is … - The first Christmas without the other wise man? | Henry van Dyke, Jr.
We have come to love Henry van Dyke’s 1895 work The Story of the Other Wise Man. The imagination it took to create a story set in biblical times, capturing the essence of …
