Harvest Sun Press is a new and innovative publisher and packager. The goal at Harvest Sun Press is to provide a select yet diverse offering of creative and entertaining books and publishing properties. Our current list of published and forthcoming titles includes a variety of book categories: bilingual children’s books, graphic novel, historical fiction, and children’s cookbooks.
Harvest Sun Press recently published the first six titles in the popular bilingual (English and Spanish) children’s series, The Matt the Rat Series / La Serie de Ratón Mateo, as featured by Jorge Ramos on the Univision television network.
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A potential graphic novel series with a diverse cast of characters and subtle multicultural themes, Small Wonders features crisp and classic black & white comic art with slick heavy inking of stories filled with both humor and mystery, ranging from tales of the paranormal to the schoolyard antics of an adventurous trio of oddly adult-minded yet winsome children. Small Wonders opens with an eccentric and haunted apartment building located in an anonymous American town. Readers will delight in the varied and quirky backdrop cast of minor characters and apartment residents, along with the heartbreaking escapades and witty exchanges of three extraordinary childhood friends: Nico Paz, a Mexican immigrant who crossed the border with her father; Anaba Harjo, a Native American and Nico’s best friend; and Philippe, an African American boy with autism and Nico and Anaba’s mutual companion and sidekick. An element of magical realism enters the story with the apartment’s resident ghost that haunts the top floor, while a darker, more brooding aspect lurks in the form of Nico’s father, Gilberto, who works as the apartment manager. Gilberto will eventually have to come to terms with the sinister and tragic past from Mexico that claimed the life of his beloved and deceased wife—an episode that ultimately resolves in a climatic chronicle of revenge and stolen identity.
A 150-page graphic novel, the first book in the Small Wonders series contains an entertaining mix of humor and literary epic in a similar vein as such influential predecessors in comics like the seminal Hernandez brothers and Daniel Clowes. Yet Small Wonders manages the difficult task of maintaining that flare and edginess appealing to so many readers of independent comics, while also casting a wider net for a younger, more inclusive readership. A book proposal, complete manuscript (text) of the first 150-page installment, and a 30-page, fully illustrated first chapter are now available. (Not yet published.)
