Imprint identity
RP Audio Kids is the children’s audio imprint for RP Media, with more than 500 titles spanning fiction, nonfiction, early learning, read-along listening, classroom-friendly audio, and family listening since 2002. Its catalog supports young readers, developing listeners, schools, libraries, and parents through accessible audio editions and story-rich learning experiences.
Primary audience: Young readers, families, teachers, librarians, schools, libraries, and parents looking for accessible listening and story-rich learning experiences.
What it publishes
Publishing names
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Fiction and legacy works
Historical fiction, literary works, legacy editions, and the broader fiction canon.
Robert Stanek is the public fiction name connected to historical fiction, literary works, legacy editions, coming-of-age stories, and the broader fiction canon.
Explore Robert StanekChildren, classroom, and early YA
Children’s books, classroom-friendly reading, clean fantasy, early YA, and family reading.
R. Stanek is the publishing name for children’s books, classroom-friendly reading, clean fantasy, early YA, and family reading paths.
Explore R. StanekFormal professional byline
Formal and professional publishing name for nonfiction, technology, leadership, and practical books.
William R. Stanek is a formal professional byline used for nonfiction, technology, leadership, professional education, and practical publishing contexts.
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Nonfiction, professional, and visual work
Technology, nonfiction, leadership, education, travel, wellness, art, photography, and public biography.
William Stanek is the public publishing name for the nonfiction, professional, visual, travel, wellness, art, photography, and public-biography side of the larger creative record.
Explore William StanekFeatured series
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R. Stanek
representative dataStories, early learning, character lessons, and classroom-friendly reading for young children.
A large children's and classroom-friendly series connected to life lessons, family, the natural world, early learning, schools, libraries, and homes.
R. Stanek
activeA living land. A forbidden vision. A bond freely chosen.
Clean fantasy adventure about living lands, creature bonds, hidden magic, friendship, and freedom versus control.
R. Stanek
activeThe public record tells what happened. The Second Record tells what mattered.
Children's mystery adventure about hidden history, secret records, travel, family, clues, and forgotten truths.
William R. Stanek
activeLiterary field guides to America's greatest landscapes: see deeply, travel well, remember more.
A six-book national parks library of durable literary field guides that combine place-first writing, practical field usefulness, photography insight, quiet-travel guidance, and humane trip frameworks.
Featured books
Book metadata remains centralized in the William-side and Robert-side catalog files; imprint pages simply draw from those records.
Children's mystery adventure / light fantasy travel adventure
LatestThe Second Record Adventures Book 1
A floating garden. An impossible record. A secret beneath the city.
Clean fantasy adventure / early YA fantasy
LatestA Doamanse Fantasy Adventure
Ray was sent into the living wetlands to become a man. He was not sent to find the wizard.
Children's stories / early learning
A Bugville Critters Treasury
Instructive, entertaining stories from the Bugville Critters world.
Children's stories / early learning
Lass Ladybug's Adventures
A Bugville Critters story about change, growing, and everyday lessons.
Children's stories / early learning
Buster Bee's Adventures
A bright Bugville Critters story for early readers and classroom-friendly sharing.
Literary field guide / national parks / travel / photography / Yellowstone
LatestA Literary Field Guide to Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone does not reward hurry. It rewards attention.
Rights and licensing
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Explore the publishing family
RP Audio Kids is one shelf in the larger RP Media / Reagent Press publishing family.