Creating Heritage Press Kids

Heritage Kids Press wants little readers of all cultural backgrounds to understand the world better while learning about their heritage through language. As parents, we all want to give our kids the best opportunities for their future. Learning another language expands our kids’ perspective, giving them a skill they will cherish for life.

Mission Statement

We are dedicated to building a world where literacy and cultural education go hand in hand. We create each of our books with the following values in mind.

Every child should have access to books that reflect their world and introduce them to new ones.

Bilingual books have the ability to nurture early language skills while celebrating and preserving cultural roots.

We champion the importance of reading together with children as a way to build lasting memories and strengthening family bonds across generations.

Educator-approved

Heritage Kids Press publishes high-quality bilingual books backed by research, enriched by professional educator insights, and multicultural perspectives. Having been written in collaboration with a diverse team of educators, editors, journalists, and translators from all over the world, our books encourage early bilingual learning and communication, while making it fun for children to navigate multiple languages and cultures from a young age.

Empowering Bilingual Learning

We understand that as parents, we all want to give our kids the best opportunities for their future. Learning another language expands our children’s perspective and equip them with a skill they will cherish for life.

Our books strive to reflect the experiences of young readers from diverse backgrounds while stimulating their learning muscles. Every book includes phonetic spelling to help parents and children sound out and learn new words together, making learning accessible for all proficiency levels.

Developed for Growing Minds and Bodies

Safe & Durable
Our commitment to safety ensures that our books are suitable for even the youngest readers. We use soy-based ink that is gentle on teething babies, and durable board book materials that can withstand the curiosity of exploratory toddlers.

Mentally Stimulating
With over a decade of teaching experience, we know what kids respond to. Our books feature realistic photo images, which research has proven to significantly benefit the developing minds of babies and toddlers. Our delightful collection of song books also makes language learning both effortless and fun.

Meet Jennifer

Founder of Heritage Kids Press

Growing up as a child of an immigrant family, I spent a lot of time learning about the world through books. My dad would read book after book on his “reading couch” after dinner, which turned me into a bookworm at a young age. While I didn’t realize it then, the stories and images in my books rarely reflected my bi-cultural household (but that didn’t stop me from reading my way through the public library!).

A Masters degree in Education, over a decade of teaching, and many books later I became a mother. I carried big dreams for my kids, one of which was raising them to become bilingual. Naturally, I turned to books as the answer to helping me on this mission. To my great surprise, I realized that not much had changed since my childhood — it took me hours of internet sleuthing to track down a used bilingual book in a bookstore on the other side of town. I started seriously questioning why after all these years, there still weren't more books that spoke to my children’s lived experiences or languages.

The message was clear: kids like mine needed more options.

I took matters into my own hands and began creating the kind of bilingual books I wished my children had. From there, Heritage Press was born. It wasn’t long before people were asking me if I had books in other languages, inspiring me to further expand our bilingual collection to many more languages.

With Heritage Press, I want to fill every home with books that foster a curiosity for language, cultural connection, and a lifelong love of reading.

Thanks for being a part of this journey.

- Jennifer
Founder of Heritage Kids Press