Small Steps, Big Dreams
The small moments that shape a life.
Gentle, reflective picture books about curiosity, courage, and the moments that quietly shape who a child becomes.
5 titles →The Publishing House of Luce Family Charities
Raising curious, caring, world-aware children.
Luce Publications exists to encourage curiosity, empathy, global awareness, and stewardship through children’s literature. 50 titles across six series, each written to inspire a young reader and to be read aloud and loved, alongside the Luce Legacy Series for adult readers.
About the imprint
A library for growing hearts.
Luce Publications publishes children’s books for young readers, roughly ages four to eleven, made to introduce them to inspiring ideas and the moments that shaped our world.
Our books encourage imagination and lifelong learning, promote respect for diverse cultures and global citizenship, and support early literacy through clear storytelling, warm illustration, and language written to be read aloud. It is the broader mission of Luce Family Charities, carried into a child’s first library.
Our Series
Seven series, one family of stories.
Six for young readers, and one carrying the family record for adults.
Fun Around the World
Adventure, animals, and a little happy nonsense.
Brighter, playful stories full of movement, humor, and far-flung places, including a certain small dog with a big heart.
8 titles →Growing Up Around the World
Real children, real places, one world.
Place-led stories about real children and lived experience, written to grow global citizens ages four to eight.
8 titles →And It’s Okay
You are never alone.
Social-and-emotional stories that help a child understand a condition they or a friend may live with, and see it is nothing to hide. Marked by the series’ signature yellow ribbon.
17 titles →Luce Young Readers
Bigger stories for braver readers.
Literary stories for ages eight to eleven, change, courage, culture, and resilience, told with cinematic warmth.
11 titles →Luce Parables
Children’s tales for grown-up hearts.
Illustrated fables written in a child’s voice but meant for older readers, carrying the harder truths in a gentle form.
1 title →Luce Legacy Series
The record behind the imprint.
Memoir, scholarship, and family record for adult readers. Two generations of Luce writing, from wartime letters and Japanese literary study to Haiti, Indonesia, and a life in activism.
10 titles →The Catalog
All 60 titles.
The complete Luce Publications catalog, grouped by series. Published titles link to Amazon, and forthcoming titles are part of the 2026–27 season. The Luce Legacy Series at the end is memoir and scholarship written for adults.
Small Steps, Big Dreams
The small moments that shape a life.5 titles
From Little Acorn: Growing Up in Switchback, West Virginia
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798184840734
Harry Hu and the President’s Hammer
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798249411640
One Small Step: The Night a Boy Learned to Dream Big
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798251540598
My Mom Runs the Food Pantry
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Wendy of Wildflower Way: The Girl Who Changed Her Neighborhood
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Fun Around the World
Adventure, animals, and a little happy nonsense.8 titles
Fun Fantastical Facts
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
ISBN 9798249903794
Kodomo Boy of Bali: Pure Nonsensical Ridiculousness
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
Make Way for Shih Tzu! A New York City Children’s Story
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
The Many Dogs of Molly McGillicuddy
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798247027737
Mike Blume’s Super Glasses: One Snow Day
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798248559060
Shih Tzu Odyssey: Tail of Wags, Waves, and Getting Home
John Laing
Coming 2026–27
The Island of Lollipop
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Two Blokes in a Shoe: A Whimsical Shih Tzu Adventure
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
Growing Up Around the World
Real children, real places, one world.8 titles
Grandmother and the Ghosts
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798247799092
I Worry About My Friends
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Jimmy Lives in Paris: A True Story
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798248063680
Mathew’s Rule: Helping Kids Around the World
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798186614272
Melissa and Yuki at the Bronx Zoo
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
My Name Is Harry — and I’m Hungry
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Skippy the Skeptic: I Don’t Believe It!
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
Tran and Felicity: Truth and Fiction
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798249580490
And It’s Okay
You are never alone.17 titles
Born to Be Me: A Story About a Child Living with HIV
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
Dad, Papa, and Me: A Story About Family, Love, and Belonging
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798181564770
I Have Anxiety — and It’s Okay
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798249339289
BilingualI Have Down Syndrome — and It’s Okay
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798246846162
I Have Tourette’s — and It’s Okay
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798247555902
Learning My Own Way: A Gentle Story About Learning Disabilities
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798191086330
Listening My Way: I Have Hearing Loss — and It’s Okay!
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798185374429
Little Brave Heart: Living with a Congenital Heart Defect
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798259162600
Mandy Moves Through the World: Independence, Friendship, and Belonging
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798184220185
Me in Motion: I Have Spina Bifida — and It’s Okay
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798187221622
My Bones Need Extra Care: A Story About Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Dr. Bill Bauer
Coming 2026–27
My Smile Is Still My Smile: A Story About Cleft Palate
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
Planet Autism: Marcus Has Autism… and It’s Okay!
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798181425873
Two Homes, One Big Love: My Parents Are Getting a Divorce — and It’s Okay
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798255980970
We Have Each Other: Nana and Pap and a Thing Called Cancer
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
When My Worries Get Loud: Calming Anxiety and Big Feelings
Dr. Bill Bauer
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798255873449
When the Lights Go Out — and It’s Okay
Dr. Bill Bauer & Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798248705856
Luce Young Readers
Bigger stories for braver readers.11 titles
Bahrizal of Banda Aceh and the Big Wave: Old Village, New Friends
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798181478169
Sensitive themeBehind the Locked Door: Finding the Courage to Tell
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
Sensitive themeEvery Morning: From Homelessness to Home Again
Sami Milan
Coming 2026–27
The First Children of the Moon: A Story from Artemis Base
John Laing
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798181065468
Mathew and Jonah: Two Bridges, One Summer
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798180727213
My First Summer Away: Camp Campbell Gard
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
My Red Wagon: A Ten-Year-Old’s Peace Movement
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
ISBN 9798257848063
Oh Dear, My Dad’s Dating
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Ryuichi and the Sky That Brought His Father Home
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Across the Granite: Grandma Sloane’s Secret Climb Up Sun Rock
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Sensitive themeThe Sound of Ice at Night
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Luce Parables
Children’s tales for grown-up hearts.1 title
For adultsThe Night the Sky Burned: A Children’s Tale for Adults
John Laing
Coming 2026–27
Luce Legacy Series
The record behind the imprint.10 titles
Chased Up the Mountain: Haiti, from Aristide to the Earthquake
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Conflict, Relativity and Despair: An Image of Japan from Contemporary Japanese Literature
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
From Death to Life: With Tsunami Orphans in Indonesia
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
The Lost Stories of Stanford Luce
Dr. Stanford L. Luce, Jr.
On Amazon →
Mayflower Memories: One Man’s Reparations
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
My Place in the Parade: Love, Activism, and, at Last, Marriage
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
Riding the Tiger, Revisited: A Founder Looks Back at the Ideas, Vision, and Lessons of Global Philanthropy
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
A Scholar at War: The World War II Letters of Stanford L. Luce, 1944–1945
Dr. Stanford L. Luce, Jr.
Coming 2026–27
Tokyo of the Mind: A Study of the Figurative Language of Abe Kōbō
Jim Luce
On Amazon →
Toward Internationalism: Writings from Three Continents: Germany, Colombia, Japan
Jim Luce
Coming 2026–27
A Luce Publications Special Project
The Luce Family Archives, 1620–2020
Four hundred years of American life. One family, four centuries, roughly 10,000 pages.
A landmark digital collection tracing one extended New England family across four centuries of American life, from the Mayflower generation and colonial Massachusetts through maritime history, Harvard, the railroad age, and the modern era.
Drawn from generations of family papers, photographs, and correspondence, it is being prepared as a fully indexed scholarly resource. In keeping with the stewardship mission of Luce Family Charities, the completed archive will be gifted to 100 leading universities and research libraries around the world.
Our Authors
The people behind the pages.
Author biographies are being added. For now, the storytellers of Luce Publications:
Jim Luce
Founder & principal author
Dr. Bill Bauer
The And It’s Okay series
John Laing
Contributing author
Sami Milan
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60 titles today. Hundreds ahead.
Luce Publications is growing toward a catalog of a thousand books, a permanent library of stories that help the next generation lead with heart.