Mona Liza Santos
World Love Press
World Love Press is an independent children’s publishing imprint founded in 2025 by author Mona Liza Santos. What began as a home for her growing collection of books has evolved into a mission to create stories that encourage kindness, confidence, emotional awareness, resilience, and cultural understanding.
We believe children’s books can do more than entertain. The right story can comfort a child, build confidence, celebrate differences, or help families and educators begin conversations that aren’t always easy to have. Through relatable characters and meaningful messages, our books encourage children to understand their feelings, appreciate who they are, and care about the people around them.
Beyond the page, World Love Press is growing its commitment to literacy, education, and community connection. From cultural storytelling events to future learning resources and partnerships, our hope is to make meaningful stories accessible wherever children and families gather.
Our Mission
The mission of World Love Press is to publish children’s books and educational resources that nurture kindness, self-worth, emotional growth, imagination, resilience, and cultural understanding.
We want to create books that children can enjoy while also giving them lessons they can use in everyday life. The hope is that these stories can help children understand themselves, develop empathy for others, and grow into kind, confident, emotionally aware adults.
Our Core Pillars
1. Emotional Literacy for Every Child
Children experience many emotions before they always know how to explain them. World Love Press creates books and resources that help children recognize their feelings, find words for them, and learn healthy ways to express themselves.
2. Kindness as a Daily Practice
Kindness should not only happen on special occasions. We believe it can become part of the way children speak, act, and treat others every day.
This belief also inspired National Intentional Kindness Day, observed every August 24, which encourages people to make kindness a conscious choice.
3. Confidence, Belonging, and Self-Worth
Children deserve to grow up knowing that they matter. Our books encourage young readers to believe in themselves, appreciate what makes them unique, build resilience, and feel proud of who they are.
4. Stories That Comfort, Empower, and Connect
A children’s book can become much more than a story. It can help a child feel understood, open a conversation between a parent and child, or remind a young reader that they are not alone in what they are experiencing.
World Love Press hopes to create stories that children and families can return to when they need encouragement, reassurance, or connection.
5. Global Understanding and Cultural Pride
World Love Press celebrates culture, identity, and the many different backgrounds that make our world interesting.
Inspired in part by Mona Liza Santos’ Filipino American roots and experiences traveling around the world, the imprint encourages children to feel proud of where they come from while also respecting and learning about people whose cultures may be different from their own.
This belief also connects with Heritage and Heart Day, observed every October 15, which celebrates cultural identity, family traditions, and respect for every race and ethnicity.
6. Purposeful Education and Advocacy
The work of World Love Press does not stop when a book is published. The imprint also hopes to support children and families through educational resources, literacy efforts, community projects, book donations, advocacy, and partnerships with schools and organizations.
As World Love Press grows, the goal is to continue finding meaningful ways to put books and resources into the hands of children who can benefit from them.
What World Love Press Represents
World Love Press represents a simple belief: what children learn about themselves when they are young can stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Children who learn that their feelings matter may become adults who are better able to understand and express their emotions. Children who learn kindness may carry that compassion into the way they treat others. Children who grow up proud of who they are may be less afraid to stand confidently in their identity while respecting someone else’s.
That is why the work is meant to reach beyond one book or one generation.
World Love Press hopes to create stories that parents can share with their children today and that those children may one day remember, carry with them, and perhaps even share with children of their own.
For World Love Press, that is what makes a children’s story truly meaningful.
Beyond the Bookshelf: Community Impact
At World Love Press, we believe a good story can bring people together, and some of the most meaningful moments happen long after a book leaves the shelf.
Our work extends beyond publishing through storytelling events, family literacy activities, cultural celebrations, and opportunities to connect with children and communities in everyday places.
In July 2026, founder Mona Liza Santos helped launch Kwento at Kulay (Story and Color) at Seafood City Chula Vista, pioneering the supermarket’s first Filipino author storytelling program. What began as a children’s book event became an opportunity for families to enjoy reading, creativity, and Filipino cultural heritage together.
The experience received wonderful feedback from Seafood City’s team, who also expressed interest in bringing the program to other locations, including Mira Mesa.
We’ve also enjoyed connecting with readers through bookstore appearances, including a storytime and book signing at Barnes & Noble Torrance, where Mona shared Mama, I Love You and The Filipino in Me: Celebrating What Makes Us Proud.
These experiences remind us that books don’t have to stay inside classrooms or libraries to make a difference. A grocery store, bookstore, or neighborhood gathering can become a place where children discover stories, families connect, and conversations begin.
As World Love Press grows, we hope to continue working with schools, libraries, businesses, and community organizations to bring more meaningful reading experiences to children and families.
Because sometimes, the most meaningful part of a story is what happens when we share it.
Books for Classrooms & Communities
Every child learns, grows, and experiences the world differently. Sometimes, the right story can help a child understand a feeling, build confidence, appreciate differences, or discover the importance of kindness.
At World Love Press, we create stories that teachers, school counselors, librarians, and families can use to encourage meaningful conversations and help children navigate everyday experiences.
Whether you’re planning a classroom read-aloud, an emotional literacy lesson, a cultural celebration, or a community reading program, we’d be happy to help you explore stories and possible book bundles that fit your children’s ages, interests, and learning needs.
We also welcome opportunities to collaborate with schools and organizations that share our passion for literacy, emotional well-being, and helping children feel valued.
Interested in bringing World Love Press books into your classroom or community? We’d love to hear from you!
Recognition & Milestones
Every milestone tells a little part of our story. What began with one children’s book written out of love has grown into a publishing journey shaped by creativity, purpose, and a desire to make a difference in children’s lives.
World Love Press began with a simple idea: creating stories that children could enjoy while learning something meaningful about themselves and the world around them. As we continue to grow, so does our vision for what those stories can become.