Building a Better Book World: A New Brand for Our Next Twenty Years
We worked throughout 2022 on reevaluating and reimagining the Edelweiss brand to better capture who we are and where we are going in the future. Edelweiss CEO John Rubin and President Annie Rubin discuss what they hope the redesign will bring to Edelweiss and its users.
Filling the Gaps: Diverse BookFinder on Collecting and Analyzing Depictions of BIPOC
Diverse BookFinder is a key resource for all those who seek to create collections in which all children can see themselves — and each other — reflected in the picture books they read.
Championing Literature for All Young Readers: We Need Diverse Books on Creating Industry-Wide Change
We Need Diverse Books is a non-profit and a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that has worked since 2014 to create a world in which all children can see themselves in the pages of a book.
Twenty Years of Helping People “Work Better, Read More”
This year, we are celebrating Edelweiss’s twentieth anniversary! Founded in 2002, Edelweiss has transformed from one-man operation to a company of nearly forty employees supporting the book community.
Supporting Diverse Books through the Thema Classification System
We recently added visibility to Thema subject categories for UK users as part of a larger project to improve the discoverability of diverse books on our site.