[3] The company began as a home business in 1992 and was founded in England by Nancy Traversy[5] and Tessa Strickland.

Barefoot's highly-anticipated Autumn 2023 Catalog consists of over 20 new titles including the Kirkus starred reviewed and graphic-novel-adjacent picture book, Stranded!, as well as five new additions to their critically-acclaimed Our World series that follows days in the lives of children around the world.

This series will also be included in the collection of dual-language editions Barefoot plans to release in Spring 2024, with each book translated into the language native to the country it features.

[8] Barefoot was the first children's book publisher on Faire, the B2B online marketplace that launched in 2017.

[3] In 2018, Barefoot partnered with Little Passports and Kiwi which made it the first children's publisher to participate in subscription boxes.