![]() ![]() A changing publishing landscape contributed to the eventual closure of the press in 1986, when it became a nominal imprint of nearby Carolina Wren Press. At its peak, the press sold about 1,500 books monthly. The press grew until 1975, when it got its own office but sales began to plateau. Operating as a publishing collective of a rotating group of around 10 members, the press published non-sexist, non-racist picture books for children to counter depictions of gender-stereotyped roles in mainstream children's books. Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the group emerged from a culture of lesbian feminist organizing and was founded in 1969. was a nonprofit American independent publisher of children's books. ![]() American children's book publisher (1969–1986)ĭefunct nominal imprint of Carolina Wren Press until c. ![]()
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