Transform your home into a place of creativity and connection with this essential guide by Myriam Sandler, founder of Mothercould -the vibrant social media community that inspires millions of parents, educators, and caregivers worldwide. Playful by Design is a step-by-step resource for creating play spaces that ignite your child's imagination and nurture their growing independence.
Other New and Upcoming Releases from Harper Celebrate
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - On Sale September 2
Let the Christmas spirit ring with this full-color festive handbook to all things holiday! You will rock around your Christmas tree this season with the beloved, nostalgic #1 chart-topping song as your guide to a host of holiday fun, from recipes and crafts to party games, decor ideas, and more! Endorsed by Brenda Lee herself!
For the Love of Chocolate- On Sale Sept. 9
Phillip Ashley Rix, whose skill and innovation have made him a renowned name in the world of chocolatiers, guides you through an inspiring collection of desserts, confections, and drinks that promise to transform your chocolate-making experience—whether you are a beginner or experienced baker. Let cocoa go beyond a mere ingredient step into the foreground on everything from breakfast foods to cocktails!
In My Calm Era
It's time to embark on a New Era of You, and In My Calm Era is the perfect place to start with a few minutes each morning. Learn how to fight back against anxiety and overwhelm and reclaim the best version of you. It's amazing how much good you can do when you prioritize your mental wellness.
The Customer is Always Wrong
If you've ever worked in customer service you know that the customer, the boss, the company—is always right, and never the employee. Well, lucky for you, the "Angry Retail Guy" is more furious—and funnier—than ever in this hilariously unhinged guide to working in America.
Combing Through the White House
With meticulous detail, engaging storytelling, and full-color visuals, "comb" through American history, teasing out long-forgotten ways that hair has influenced the lives and legacies of the U.S. presidency.
Learn facts about the men and women who called The White House home. The past is never far and there is more that connects to us than you think.
Worried Whippet
Worried Whippet is a whimsically illustrated book that inspires you to take a cue from one anxious little dog, to muster up your courage, and step out into the world with hope. Follow along as one fearful little whippet named Jess, made popular on TikTok and Instagram, journeys out of her cozy bed to join her friends and conquer all the things that scare her most.
The Magic in the Tragic - On Sale June 17
Discover a new way to think about your grief and loss. Esteemed psychotherapist and bereavement counselor John Tsilimparis, MFT, draws on his own story, scientific and philosophical evidence, the soothing effects of the arts and nature, and shows you the ways grief and loss intertwine with beauty, tenderness, and human connection to empower you to build emotional resilience in a difficult world.
Baking in the American South
Every recipe tells a story. Experience mouthwatering Southern baking—from humble home kitchens to innovative new Southern chefs. One of the world's richest culinary traditions comes to life through this essential cookbook with 200 recipes, and the stories behind them, from 14 states by bestselling author Anne Byrn.
Cook with Confidence
Unleash your culinary creativity with over 100 delicious recipes from chef Dennis Prescott. Cook with Confidence is guaranteed to take your cooking to the next level with all the tips you need to keep your cooking stress-free—and your dining table a place of connection.
Glow: 90 Days to Create Your Vibrant Life from Within
In just minutes each day, you can glow like never before! One of the most recognized leaders in functional medicine, Dr. Stacie Stephenson, offers a unique, whole-person approach to embracing the health we deserve through meditations and motivations.
Things You Wanted to Say But Never Did
Photographer and artist Geloy Concepcion asked social media followers to tell him "things they wanted to say but never did." He paired these authentic responses with photographs—not the polished portraits, but the blurry outtakes that capture real life.
31 Days of Spooky
Whether you're reading under the covers (just because it is fun!), cozied up with a cup of cocoa, or with friends around the campfire, 31 Days of Spooky is your essential short story collection for a ghostly good time! Haunting illustrations accompany these eerie unnatural tales that will have you celebrating Halloween all October-long.
Hollywood Confidential
Maybe you're just starting out and are unsure where to invest your time and energy. Maybe you've started and stopped so much already that your fallback plan has become the only plan. In Hollywood Confidential, Steve Jones shares his 12 secrets to success accrued from working alongside today's most powerful voices in entertainment.
Food to Die For
Paranormal investigator Amy Bruni brings you recipes and stories from America's most haunted locations. With stunning and spooky photos, Bruni shares the haunting origins and an authentic recipe from each location. Recipes include cocktails, soups, mains, and desserts.
Why Do We Stay?
You or someone you love may be in a toxic relationship, but it doesn't have to stay that way. In this practical resource, Stephanie Quayle shares her powerful story of past toxic relationships with psychologist Dr. W. Keith Campbell's professional insights to give you help to heal.
The Horrors of Dating: A Coloring Book
t's bleak out there. From the finance bro who's more in love with his stock portfolio than you. Or the girl who's just looking for someone to finance a new pair of Louboutins. Grab some colored pencils, ghost on that date you're dreading, and celebrate your independence by just saying no to toxic partners!
Magic Made Real
Color your way to adventure as you escape into a world of myths, lore, and magical realms with this fantasy-themed coloring book! In Magic Made Real you'll journey to worlds unknown, full of dragons, unicorns, fairies, mermaids, and more, with 96 pages of full-spread intricate designs and imaginative illustrations.
Each page invites you to embark on a new quest into enchanted forests, ancient ruins, and mystical landscapes.
Not That Fancy
The best things in life are really not that fancy. This photo-driven book featuring all-things-Reba invites you to get back to the basics of life: fun, food, friends, and family. In her first book in over two decades, actress and country music legend Reba McEntire delivers stories, recipes, and Oklahoma-style truths.
Shine Bright Anyway
After a car accident in 2018 that left her with a traumatic brain injury, author Faith Broussard Cade was in a place of trauma and brokenness. But despite this daily suffering she chooses gratitude, love, and hard work. In this beautiful, full-color book she pairs handwritten notes with a longer message of encouragement to help others.
Turn to the Sun
Turn to the Sun guides you down a nourishing path of uplifting affirmations, soul-refreshing meditations, and lush botanical photography that helps you heal in the company of nature. Approach your days with less anxiety, renewed vigor, and a deeper sense of well-being as you become grounded and soak up nature's restorative qualities. Perfect for anyone who finds solace in nature and plants.
Romanticize Your Life
moments of wonder that often get lost amid the hustle and the bustle, the worries, the what-ifs, and regrets. Tucked within every day are simple opportunities to live with greater mindfulness and joy every season, 365 days a year.
Through engaging illustrations and dated, daily inspirations for every season, Romanticize Your Life offers creative ideas for infusing magnificence into ordinary moments.
I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts
From television actress, Broadway star, and New York Times bestselling author Kristin Chenoweth comes I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts, an inspiring high-design, colorful book featuring philosophical-ish musings on connection, creativity, loss, love, faith, and closure. You'll be inspired to develop your own life philosophies, as you journey through some of Kristin's vulnerable and humorous stories.
The Container Victory Garden
Even if all you have is a postage stamp's worth of space on a balcony, patio, or front stoop, The Container Victory Garden equips you to dig into the joys of container gardening, right where you are.
In her trademark warm and informative style, bestselling author and expert gardener Maggie Stuckey shares everything you need to know to succeed with container gardening: planning, gearing up, planting, nurturing, and harvesting.
BYE, I Quit: Snarkspiration for Surviving Your Job (Until You Just Can’t Anymore)
The perfect blend of satire and encouragement to help you find meaning and humor to get through the workday. If you have had a recent epiphany about quitting your job or know someone who has, this fully illustrated, meme-worthy guidebook offers the inspiration needed to keep your chin up and tap into what really matters in life.
Work from Home: A Coloring and Activity Book for Grown-ups (LOL as You WFH)
Remote employees, put your stress on mute with this hilarious grown-up coloring and activity book all about the joys and challenges of working from home.
Farewell, fluorescent lights! So long, cubicle maze! The people have spoken and the work-from-home lifestyle is here to stay. Work from Home: A Coloring and Activity Book for Grown-Ups (LOL as You WFH) is perfect for anyone who knows and loves the wonderful (and at times wonderfully weird) experience of remote work.
How Am I Doing? 40 Conversations to Have With Yourself
Dr. Corey Yeager, psychotherapist for the NBA’s Detroit Pistons and most recently featured on Oprah and Prince Harry's The Me You Can't See on Apple TV+, offers you 40 questions to help you raise awareness of your thoughts and emotions and reconnect with who you want to be.
Veg Forward
In Veg Forward, veteran cookbook author, columnist, and culinary consultant Susan Spungen supplies the delicious answers, with 102 recipes in which vegetables claim a starring role. Big platter salads. Warm-weather grain bowls. Freeform fruit tarts and snacking cakes. Each one coaxes a maximum amount of flavor from a minimum number of ingredients; each looks as good as it tastes.
Harper Celebrate is the gift book imprint under HarperCollins Focus. Through superior design and sophisticated detail, Harper Celebrate creates a visually striking experience to uplift and beautifully celebrate the people, occasions, interests, and gifts in reader's lives.
Harper Celebrate will publish projects such as daily readers, lifestyle books on topics like hospitality, home decorating, organization, and crafting, journals, photography-driven books and anthologies, poetry, mindfulness, cookbooks and occasion-focused books such as holiday celebrations, graduation, and gifts for special persons.
