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Cup and Saucer Books

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Who We Are

Cup and Saucer Books exists to bring the highest quality picture books to children everywhere. Our books are full of whimsy and wit as we seek to keep childhood wonderful, wild, and free. Our old-fashioned approach of providing world-class artwork, sophisticated language, and the highest production quality brings you not simply idle reads, but treasured keepsakes you will fondly remember for years to come.

At Cup and Saucer Books, we celebrate the beauty of home and family. We emphasize familial relationships, daily domestic happenings, and the delights of life. We strive for exquisite aesthetics while maintaining the highest regard for young readers.

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My Passion

Picture books for children used to be full of tenderness, earnest affection, and playful yet potent assurances of a parent’s devotion to their child. Today’s books, however, are cheapening in language quality, overall aesthetic, and substantive artwork. Modern children's books have shifted from unfettered sincerity to ironic or hyperbolic flattery, oversimplified content, and half-sentence clichés. Equally tragic, where children’s books of the past celebrated kindness, virtue, and untethered play, today’s books are saturated and encumbered with the overt burden of social and political agendas while touting the hollow promises of self-love. In short: the books are no fun anymore. The souls of children are parched and hungry for promises of the unconditional love of a steady and sacrificial parent, not for trite cliches and empty flattery. Let us nourish them with something in bright and beautiful contrast: poems and stories of light, airy, unpretentious goodness; pages full of wholesome, purehearted, unaffected parental love.

Shop Books

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Meet Jess

Jessica Vana studied aviation at the university termed “The Harvard of the Sky” by TIME magazine. She graduated as a Commercial Pilot with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Science. She was asked to recite one of her poems about aviation at the U.S. Pentagon on September 11, 2002. She gave the formal invocation at a 2008 U.S. Presidential Rally and has won writing awards including Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Excellence in Writing Award.

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“We’ve never felt such incredible emotion from reading a children’s book before. You can feel warmth and love exude from the story like never read before. Do yourself a favor and get the book. You will not be disappointed!”

- Maggie

“If you’re looking for your child’s next favorite pull-off-the-shelf book, this is it. The illustrations are beautiful, the story is warm and engaging, and it’s one of those books kids actually ask to hear again. It already feels like a classic in our home library. Highly recommended!”

- Nathan

“Vana captures the overflowing, I-don’t-have-words-for-it heart behind mothering in this beautiful book. The words evoke the magic of days spent together with family. The images drew my children right in. We poured over each page, soaking in the details. A treasure to pass on to friends and to pass down to future generations.”