About Us

Since 2007, our goal at Youth Services Book Review has been to provide thoughtful and valuable reviews that help Massachusetts librarians select diverse books. As Massachusetts librarians ourselves, we are dedicated to providing meaningful reviews to assist readers and our colleagues. 

As of August 2021, Stephanie Tournas from the Robbins Library in Arlington and Susan Harari, a librarian at Boston Latin School, have shared coordinating and editing responsibilities, overseeing over 40 volunteer reviewers from both public and school libraries and fielding offerings from over 200 publishers. We love new publishing ventures, especially when they offer unfamiliar authors and illustrators. Gecko Press sends us books from New Zealand, offering stories featuring native people; Kids Can Press offers Canadian authors; Inhabit Media publishes picture books and graphic novels by indigenous Inuit authors, set in the Arctic.

Many thanks go out to the publishers who provide us with review books. We are always looking for new reviewers to enable us to cover more publishers. We also actively seek new publishers, especially those representing local authors or offering books with multicultural representation.

Each delivery from publishers sees an update to our catalog of books available for review. If you know of anyone who may be interested in participating please forward this website address.

About the Editors:

Stephanie Tournas has been a children’s librarian for over 20 years and currently works at the Robbins Library in Arlington, MA.

Susan Harari is a librarian at Boston Latin School (Boston’s largest public school), serving grades 7-12. She previously worked as a K-5 librarian at Loring School in Sudbury, MA.

Participating list of publishers*

• Harry N. Abrams
• Action Labs
• Adams Media/Merit Press
• Aftershock Comics
• Akashic Books/ Black Sheep
• Aladdin
• Alaska Northwest Books
• Albatros Media
• Albert Whitman
• Algonquin Young Readers
• AMMO Books
• Andrews McMeel
• Annick Press
• Archipelago Books
• Astra Young Readers
• Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Atlas Publishing
• Auzou Books
• Balzer + Bray
• Barefoot Books
• Beach Lane Books
• Beaming Books
• Berbay Publishing
• Beyond Words
• Big Picture Press
• Bloomsbury and Walker Publishers
• Blue Dot Kids Press
• Blue Manatee Press
• Blue Sky Press
• Boyds Mills/Calkins Creek/Wordsong
• Calliope Group
• Candied Plums
• Candlewick Press
• Carolrhoda
• Cassava Republic
• Charlesbridge
• Chicken House
• Child’s Play
• Chronicle Books
• Child’s Play International
• Cicada
• Cinco Puntos Press
• Clockwise Press
• CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Crown Books
• Dawn Publications
• Delacorte Press
• Diamond Book Distributors
• Disney Hyperion
• Doubleday
• Drawn & Quarterly
• Dutton
• Eerdmans
• Eifrig Publishing
• Elsewhere Editions
• Ember
• Encantos
• Enchanted Lion
• Enfant
• Epic Press
• Faber and Faber
• Fabled Films
• Farrar Straus Giroux
• Feiwel and Friends
• Fifth House Publishers
• Firefly Books
• First Second Books
• Fitzhenry and Whiteside
• Flame Tree Press
• Flamingo Books
• Floris Books
• Flowerpot Press
• Flying Eye Books
• Flying Start
• flyaway books
• Fox Chapel/Happy Fox
• Gecko Press
• Golden Books
• Graphix
• Greenwillow Books
• Greystone Kids
• Grosset & Dunlap
• Groundwood Books / House of Anansi
• Hachette Book Group
• Hachette Audiobooks
• HarperCollins
• Haymarket Books
• Heartdrum
• Henry Holt & Co.
• Hippo Park
• Holiday House
• Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt
• Image Comics
• Inhabit Media
• Islamic Foundation
• Jeter Publishing
• Kane Miller
• Karadi Tales
• Kelpies/ Young Kelpies
• Kensington
• Kids Can Press
• Alfred A. Knopf
• Kokila
• Kube Publishing
• Labyrinth Road
• Lantana Publishing
• Laurence King
• Lee & Low/Bebop/Tu
• Lemniscaat
• Lerner/Carolrhoda
• Lion forge
• Little Bee
• Little Brown and Company
• Little Island Books
• Little Tiger Press
• Lonely Planet Kids
• Macmillan
• Magination Press
• Magnetic Press
• Make Me a World
• Manga Classics
• Mascot Books
• Maverick Children’s Books
• Merriam Webster kids
• Merit Press / fw media
• Milky Way Picture Books
• minedition US
• Nancy Paulsen Books
• National Geographic Kids
• Nimbus Publishing
• Nobrow
• No Starch Press
• NorthSouth
• Norton Young Readers
• Nosy Crow
• NubeOcho
• Ohio University Press
• Oni Press
• Orca/Nimbus Book Publishers
• Owlkids
• Pajama Press
• Paula Wiseman Books
• Peachtree
• Penguin
• Penny Candy Books
• Perseus Books
• Phaidon Press
• Philomel
• Pixel Ink
• Plough Publishers
• Priddy Books
• Push
• Pushkin Press
• G.P. Putnam’s Sons
• Quarto Kids
• Quill Tree Books
• Random House
• Razorbill
• Recorded Books
• Red Comet Press
• Red Deer Press
• Red Rocket Readers
• Restless Books
• Roaring Brook Press
• Rodale Kids
• Rosen Publishing
• Running Press
• Salaam Books
• Schiffer Publishing
• Scholastic
• School of Life
• Science, Naturally!
• Schwartz & Wade
• Scribe Publications/Scribble
• St. Martin’s Press
• Second Story Press (Orca)
• Seismic Press
• Sime Books
• Simon & Schuster
• Sleeping Bear Press
• Soaring Kite Books
• Soho Press
• Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky
• Spitball Studio
• Square Fish
• Stafford House Books
• Tanglewood Publishing
• Tapioca Stories
• Templar
• Theytus Books
• 360 Degrees
• Tiger Tales
• Tilbury House
• Tiny Owl
• Toon Books
• Top Shelf Productions
• TOR
• Travels with Gannon & Wyatt
• Tundra
• Two Hoots
• Two Lions
• Two Little Birds
• Union Square Books
• University of Minnesota Press
• Usborne Publishing
• Vagrant Press
• Versify
• Viking Press
• Walker Books for Young Readers
• wattpad books
• Wendy Lamb
• West Margin Press
• What On Earth Publishing
• Wicked Cow Studios
• Yali Books
• Yearling Books
• Yeehoo Press
• Zest Books
• *This is not a complete list and needs to be updated from time to time