Our family has always loved the beautiful and traditional handcrafted books reprinted by The Neumann Press. We were so sad to learn of the death of the founder and on Wednesday we were saddened once again to hear that Neumann Press will be closing.
According to their email:
We regret that we must close the doors of The Neumann Press. This has been a difficult and painful decision for our family, and we know this closure will be sad news to many of you. We can no longer accept and process orders and are officially closed.
Our goal is to offer any remaining stock of our titles in a closing sale in late summer/early fall 2013, and will keep you all updated as to when the exact dates will be.
We have been slowly collecting the books published by The Neumann Press for many years, and you will find quite a number of them pictured and linked in the archives here at Shower of Roses. While there is still a chance to find these books at various bookstores I wanted to share our collection with you all. I have been able to find some of the titles we were still wanting to purchase on Amazon (though they are quickly selling out), and I know that both Sacred Heart Books and Gifts (Update: Linda has sold/closed) and Adoremus Books carry books from The Neumann Press as well. I also plan to watch for their closing sale… And start praying that something changes between now and then!
UPDATE: TAN Books Acquires Neumann Press! Deo Gratias! And you can visit TAN Books / Neumann Press via my new Affiliate link here!
— Coloring Books —
It’s a little smaller than the original, but the artwork throughout is the same!
— Books by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson —
— Other Great Books for Children —
Jesus and Mary
Sunny Bunny
I Believe: The Creed, Confession, and the Ten Commandments for Little Catholics
Whale and Snales and Heavenly Tales: A Children’s Phonetic Reader
Manners in God’s House: First Prayers and First Missal
Legends of Saints and Beasts
I love all of these! In fact, I wasn’t very happy when I discovered I Believe had been left outside the other night! Thankfully it hadn’t rained and it wasn’t too damp in the morning… I do love that my children will pull these books off the shelf to read on their own without any encouragement from me. They really love and enjoy reading them too!
A few of these we have had for many years and a couple others arrived in Easter Baskets this year, but I actually purchased Manners in God’s House: First Prayers and First Missal to go along with “C” week last fall (As we studied “Church” Along the Alphabet Path) and it is just as sweet as can be!
You can click the following pictures for a closer look at all the precious pages.
— Other Miscellaneous Books —
I would have loved to eventually collect the all of the Masterpiece Classics…
If anyone happens to own any of them I’d love to hear about your favorites!
This is so sad. So many great books.
I just purchased a few but, there are so many more that I wish I could get. At least I now have " My First Communion Catechism" for my little one. It'll be saved for her until next year.
Hopefully something will change. Prayers for the family.
I found the My Mass Book at our thrift store in perfect condition a few weeks ago for $1. I purchased it and it's fantastic. I have it put up as we attend the OF regularly. We want to attend the EF but need to travel to get there, and I'm afraid of the kids wrecking it before we get there! 🙂
O no! I was planning on purchasing many of the books along the way when the budget was more flexible. Perhaps some other publishing company can pick up these titles. I do hope so!
Jessica – I was wondering about the "Angel Food for Boys and Girls" books. I remember these from a previous posting of yours (I believe it was) and how they can work together with the Baltimore Catechism #2. My question is: can you work them alongside #1? My daughter will only be in 2nd grade this coming school year, so she's only at the "Frist Communion" book stage right now. I'd love to incorporate these books! I've had my eye on them for a while now.
Also, the "Old Testament Rhymes" book is great! I used it for the Vol.1 history with RC History this past year.
I have several of their titles and would LOVE to obtain more….. I, too, was hoping to accrue them over the years…
Hi Jessica, how is the Plan diet going? I started it last week and am now on day 6. Yestersay was the first day I didnt lose…because i went off a little bit because we were away. I did a reset day today. Im getting a little tires of always the same foods….14 days seems like so far away! 🙂 God bless!
I'm sorry to hear this. We have some of the books and I had hoped to purchase more in time. These books are excellent !
What a beautiful post. You have a collection of treasures. – Genevieve
What diet? 😉 I totally fell off all diets and exercise over the summer and have quite a bit of work to do to get back to where I was this fall… The plan did go well though, and it did reaffirm that I do react to all dairy :'( I already knew that I am severely intolerant… It's just so hard to stay off of it completely! It was a challenging diet, but I did think it was very helpful… Now if I could just find the willpower and motivation to get back on it!
Does anyone know when the book clearance sale will be?
I would love to hear the answer to that question too… I sure miss Neumann Press!
Immaculate Conception Church Bookstore in Omaha, NE has many Neumann Press books and color books. You can reach us [email protected]
Becky
Jessica,
I was wondering if there is an original copyright in the Founders of Freedom/Bearers of Freedom, etc books?????? I'm just wondering what year they originally were published.
Thanks!
Krista
Oh, just managed to track down the original copyright date to the Founders of Freedom book.
What I WOULD like to ask, though, is how you find the Land of Our Lady series compared to the Catholic Textbook Project's books, like From Sea to Shinning Sea???? Since one series is vintage and the other current, I know that will be a difference and probably color vs/ black and white, but I am wondering about content and style of writing, etc. If you have a chance, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks!
Krista
Hello there! I am trying to track down a book that I found cited as:
The Neuman Press Book of Verse (Long Prairie, Minn.: Neumann Press, 1988).
I can't find it, even on World Cat. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hi Sørina, Unfortunately I am not familiar with that book. I was going to suggest contacting TAN, the new publishers of the Neumann Press books, but after a little searching I ended up on your blog post from yesterday and read that you tried that already! 🙂
I had a wonderful prayer card from Neumann Press, To Make a Good Confession, it was 11 " long but 6" wide and on the bottom it said to turn over exam of conscience. Could you tell me if it is still being printed. If so could I order some? It was so wonderful to take when going to confession. [email protected]
Hi, Jessica. I'm wondering – could you tell me the ISBN for the Neumann book on St. Margaret? I'd love to get it for my daughter, and I'd put an AbeBooks alert on it, but I can't find the ISBN anywhere.
Sure! It's 0-911845-30-5 published in 2007.
I see you thought about using the American Cardinal Readers Primer with your Kindergartner (at the time). Did you end up using it and what did you think of it? I'm looking into different reading programs; these, little angel readers, CHC readers. Just like to get different thoughts on each of them!