Ground­wood Books, found­ed in 1978, is com­mit­ted to pro­duc­ing high-qual­i­ty chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture across var­i­ous gen­res, includ­ing fic­tion, pic­ture books, and non-fic­tion, for all age groups. The pub­lish­er oper­ates in Cana­da, the Unit­ed States, and Latin Amer­i­ca, aim­ing to main­tain the high­est stan­dards in both lan­guage and illus­tra­tion with­in their pub­li­ca­tions.

While focus­ing pri­mar­i­ly on Cana­di­an authors, Ground­wood Books also seeks excep­tion­al works from oth­er coun­tries. They empha­size the impor­tance of sto­ry­telling from indi­vid­u­als whose voic­es are not always rep­re­sent­ed in main­stream media, par­tic­u­lar­ly focus­ing on the nar­ra­tives of the First Peo­ples of North Amer­i­ca. This com­mit­ment to diver­si­ty con­tin­ues with their Libros Tigril­lo imprint, which since 1998 has pub­lished works by Latin Amer­i­can authors resid­ing in the Amer­i­c­as, avail­able in both Eng­lish and Span­ish.

The pub­lish­er believes that by show­cas­ing intense­ly per­son­al expe­ri­ences, their books res­onate uni­ver­sal­ly, bridg­ing cul­tur­al gaps. The glob­al pres­ence of their authors and the wide appeal of their books, loved by chil­dren world­wide, val­i­date this mis­sion. Ground­wood Books thus plays a vital role in the lit­er­ary land­scape, ensur­ing that mar­gin­al­ized nar­ra­tives gain vis­i­bil­i­ty and recog­ni­tion in an era dom­i­nat­ed by large media con­glom­er­ates. Their ded­i­ca­tion to reflect­ing unique expe­ri­ences and voic­es enrich­es the tapes­try of children’s lit­er­a­ture and pro­motes inclu­siv­i­ty in pub­lish­ing.

It seems the con­tent you’ve pro­vid­ed con­sists sole­ly of the pub­lish­er’s infor­ma­tion and does not con­tain an actu­al chap­ter from “Their Eyes Were Watch­ing God.” Please pro­vide the text of the chap­ter you’d like me to sum­ma­rize, and I’ll be hap­py to assist you!

The pro­vid­ed text is a sec­tion about the pub­lish­er for “The Berry Pick­ers.” It con­tains address­es and web­sites for var­i­ous Harper­Collins Pub­lish­ers offices across dif­fer­ent coun­tries, includ­ing Aus­tralia, Cana­da, India, New Zealand, the Unit­ed King­dom, and the Unit­ed States. Each entry begins with the coun­try name fol­lowed by the pub­lish­er’s name, address, and web­site link.

As this text does not con­tain a spe­cif­ic nar­ra­tive or chap­ter of a sto­ry with char­ac­ters, themes, or events to sum­ma­rize, it pri­mar­i­ly serves as a sim­ple infor­ma­tion­al sec­tion. There­fore, a sum­ma­ry of this con­tent would reflect the list­ing and orga­ni­za­tion­al details regard­ing the pub­lish­er rather than pro­vid­ing a con­densed nar­ra­tive.

If you have an actu­al chap­ter of the book that includes a nar­ra­tive or spe­cif­ic con­tent to sum­ma­rize, please pro­vide that chap­ter, and I will glad­ly assist you with the sum­ma­ry as per your requests.