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Cover of Secrets of the Ocean: The Odyssey of Tunie and Runie by Devidasa Kawal

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Secrets of the Ocean: The Odyssey of Tunie and Runie

Now available on Kindle

One stormy night, the whole house floated out to sea. Two sisters, a storm, a map, and the long way home.

By Devidasa Kawal

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Ink drawing of a red desk with an open book, stacked books, a red lamp, and an apple, beneath a window with red shutters that opens onto the New York skyline

Books from the desk. Wonder with a standard.

Red Desk Press publishes books with a classroom standard and a finished object, first for children and then for the adults who build and read the world those children will enter.

Meet Red Desk Children Read about the house

The house

From a New York classroom to the shelf

Red Desk Press was founded after years in a New York classroom and study in publishing at Parsons. The desk is craft. Red is the decision to act. The press is based in Tampa. Founded in New York.

The house and its founder

One publisher

Three lists

List I · Families, classrooms, libraries

Red Desk Children

Children’s books and young adult. The first title is now available on Kindle.

Written to be read aloud and built to last on a shelf.

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List II · Professionals, educators, leaders

Red Desk Books

Science, technology, education, and business.

Now available: The Readiness Gap.

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List III · Adult readers, book clubs

Red Desk Novels

Novels and adult series.

The cover belongs to the book.

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The house standard

A classroom standard and a finished object

Every Red Desk title, on every list, moves through the same desk before it reaches a reader.

  1. The desk

    A manuscript is read for one question first: does it teach, move, or hold a reader the way it means to.

  2. The edit

    Structure, then line, then word. Children’s titles are read aloud at this stage.

  3. The object

    Type, paper, and cover are chosen for the book in hand, not for a thumbnail.

  4. The shelf

    The book is published under its list, with the house sprite as its signature.

Now available

Secrets of the Ocean: The Odyssey of Tunie and Runie. Illustrated early chapter book. Ages 7–10. Red Desk Children. Read more · Buy on Amazon (opens in a new tab).

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Every book here begins at a desk.

Teachers, librarians, booksellers, and readers can write to the house directly.

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