When Nancy Traversy started Barefoot Books in her home in England with Tessa Strickland in 1992, her eldest daughter was three weeks old. Twenty five years later, she has four grown children, and her ...

Barefoot Books is a small house based in Cambridge, Mass., that publishes children’s book. As of this week, you can call it “The Mouse that Roared.” The people who run Barefoot Books are frustrated ...

Founded in England in 1992 by two women who were determined to publish the kinds of colorful, diverse books that they wanted their own young children to read, Barefoot Books remains committed to its ...

E.M. Forster’s much quoted phrase from Howard’s End, “Only connect,” could serve as a tagline for Barefoot Books, a children’s publishing company with offices in Cambridge, Mass., and Oxford, England, ...