This is a list of publishers of children's books . They may be independent or an imprint of a larger publisher. They may be currently operating or out of business.
Publisher | City | Administrative division | Country | Est. | Notable books, series, or franchises | Notes |
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Adarna House | Quezon City | Philippines | 1980 | |||
Affirm Press | Melbourne | Australia | 2010 | Began publishing children's books in 2017. [1] | ||
American Girl | United States | 1986 | American Girl series | Owned by Mattel | ||
Annick Press | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | 1975 | Classic Robert Munsch series | |
Anvil Publishing | Mandaluyong | Philippines | 1990 | |||
Arbordale Publishing | Mount Pleasant | South Carolina | United States | 2004 | Nonfiction topics include science, math, and folklore | |
Barefoot Books | Cambridge | Massachusetts | United States | 1992 | ||
Beaver's Pond Press | Saint Paul | Minnesota | United States | 1998 | Pockets of Joy by Roxane Battle Tell My Sons by Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber | |
Bendon Publishing International | Ashland | Ohio | United States | 2001 | ||
Big Guy Books | Encinitas | California | United States | |||
Bloomsbury | London | England | United Kingdom United States | 1986 | Harry Potter | |
The Book House for Children | 1919 | Now defunct | ||||
Candlewick Press | Somerville | Massachusetts | United States | 1991 | Judy Moody and Stink franchises Where's Waldo? books | Part of Walker Books Group Distributed by Penguin Random House Publishers Services |
Capstone Publishers | Mankato | Minnesota | United States | 1990 | Imprints and divisions include Capstone Press, Compass Point Books, Picture Window Books, Stone Arch Books, Red Brick Learning, Capstone Digital, Heinemann-Raintree and Switch Press | |
Children's Press | United States | 1945 | Rookie Read-About series True Book series Young People's series (Young People's Animal Encyclopedia, Young People's Science Encyclopedia, Young People's Science Dictionary, Young People's World) | Spelled as Childrens Press until 1996. Originally based in Chicago, Illinois prior to its acquisition by Grolier in 1995 and has a secondary imprint, Franklin Watts. Became an imprint of Scholastic Corporation in 2000. | ||
Chronicle Books | San Francisco | California | United States | 1967 | The Art of... series | |
Cuento de Luz | Madrid | Spain | 2007 | |||
David Fickling Books | Oxford | England | United Kingdom | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne | ||
DK (formerly Dorling Kindersley) | London | England | United Kingdom | 1974 | Division of Penguin Random House | |
Dutton Children's Books | United States | 1852 | Winnie-the-Pooh books | Division of Penguin Random House | ||
Egmont Publishing | Copenhagen | Denmark | 1878 | |||
Eklavya foundation | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | India | |||
Enslow Publishing | Berkeley Heights | New Jersey | United States | 1976 | ||
Faber and Faber | London | England | United Kingdom | 1929 | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats | |
Figures In Motion | Bellingham | Washington | United States | 2008 | Famous Figures series | |
Fremantle Press | Fremantle | Australia | 1976 | Destroying Avalon | ||
Gallimard Jeunesse | Paris | France | Subsidiary of Éditions Gallimard | |||
Gecko Press | Wellington | New Zealand | 2005 | Duck, Death and the Tulip | ||
Golden Books | Racine | Wisconsin | United States | Defunct 2001 Little Golden Books remains as an imprint of Penguin Random House. | ||
Goops Unlimited | ||||||
HarperCollins | New York City | New York | United States United Kingdom | 1989 | Frog and Toad | |
Hogs Back Books | Guildford, Surrey | England | United Kingdom | 2010 | Boris the Boastful Frog | |
J. Lumsden and Son | Scotland | United Kingdom | 1783 | |||
Kerala State Institute of Children's Literature | Kerala | India | 1981 | |||
Kids Can Press | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | 1973 | ||
Kim Đồng Publishing House | Hanoi | Vietnam | 1957 | |||
Ladybird Books | London | England | United Kingdom | 1867 | Imprint of Penguin Random House | |
Lee & Low Books | New York City | New York | United States | 1991 | Baseball Saved Us | |
Lerner Publishing Group | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States | 1959 | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre Randolph Caldecott Medal Honor Book, Commended, 2022 Monkey with a Tool Belt, the inspiration behind Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt Where I Belong Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer | Independently owned and operated since 1959 with 14 imprints including Kar-Ben Publishing and Graphic Universe |
Mackinac Island Press | ||||||
Magabala Books | Broome | Australia | 1987 | |||
McLoughlin Brothers | United States | 1858 | Beverly Gray | Defunct 1920 | ||
Miles Kelly Publishing | Bardfield End Green, Essex | England | United Kingdom | 1996 | ||
Nosy Crow | London | England | United Kingdom | 2010 | Bizzy Bear books Pip and Posy books | Imprint of Candlewick Press |
Orchard Books | 1986 | Orchard Books UK is maintained by Hachette. Hachette, which acquired Grolier in 1988, sold Grolier to Scholastic Corporation in 2000, along with the U.S. branch of Orchard Books, while retaining the UK branch. | ||||
Orion | London | England | United Kingdom | 1998 | ||
Peace Hill Press | Charles City | Virginia | United States | The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer | ||
Prometheus Books | Amherst | New York | United States | 1969 | ||
Purple House Press | Cynthiana | Kentucky | United States | 2000 | ||
The Quarto Group | London | England | United Kingdom | 1976 | Many imprints. Distribution by Hachette. | |
Random House | New York City | New York | United States | 1927 | ||
Roaring Brook Press | Imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group [2] | |||||
Salariya Book Company | Brighton | England | United Kingdom | 1989 | ||
Scholastic | New York City | New York | United States | 1920 | Clifford the Big Red Dog | |
Simon & Schuster | New York City | New York | United States | 1924 | ||
Skyhorse Publishing | ||||||
Tamarind Books | United Kingdom | 1987 | Now an imprint of Random House Children's Books UK | |||
Text Publishing | Melbourne | Australia | 1990 | Zac & Mia | ||
Tu Books | New York City | New York | United States | 2009 | Summer of the Mariposas | Young adult and middle grade publishing imprint of Lee & Low Books |
Tulika Publishers | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | India | 1996 | ||
Tundra Books | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | 1967 | ||
Usborne Publishing | United Kingdom | 1973 | ||||
Walker Books | London | England | United Kingdom | 1978 | Where's Wally? |
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. It has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the Germany-based media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is an Anglo-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. HarperCollins is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp.
Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education, and media company that publishes and distributes books, comics, and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, children, and other educational institutions. Products are distributed via retail and online sales and through schools via reading clubs and book fairs. Clifford the Big Red Dog, a character created by Norman Bridwell in 1963, serves as Scholastic's official mascot.
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. Bloomsbury's head office is located in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a US publishing office located in New York City, an India publishing office in New Delhi, an Australian sales office in Sydney CBD, and other publishing offices in the UK, including in Oxford. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index.
Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster is considered one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers. As of 2017 Simon & Schuster was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints.
Macmillan Publishers is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers. Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, the firm would soon establish itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian era children's literature, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894).
Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling". With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews.
E. P. Dutton was an American book publishing company. It was founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton. Since 1986, it has been an imprint of Penguin Group.
Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It was founded in 1991 and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson the following year. The group has published numerous bestselling books by notable authors including Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Nemir Kirdar and Quentin Tarantino.
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.
Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW), formerly known as The Disney Publishing Group and Buena Vista Publishing Group, is the publishing subsidiary of Disney Experiences, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Its imprints include Disney Editions, Disney Press, Kingswell, Freeform, and Hyperion Books for Children. It has creative centers in Glendale, California, and Milan, Italy.
David McKay Publications was an American book publisher which also published some of the first comic books, including the long-running titles Ace Comics, King Comics, and Magic Comics; as well as collections of such popular comic strips as Blondie, Dick Tracy, and Mandrake the Magician. McKay was also the publisher of the Fodor's travel guides.
Hachette Books, formerly Hyperion Books, is a general-interest book imprint of the Perseus Books Group, which is a division of Hachette Book Group and ultimately a part of Lagardère Group. Established in 1990, Hachette publishes general-interest fiction and non-fiction books for adults. A former subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, it was originally named after Hyperion Avenue, the location of Walt Disney Studios prior to 1939. Hachette took over a 1,000 book backlist when Hyperion was purchased from Disney in 2013 with 250 bestselling novels, including Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
Atheneum Books was a New York City publishing house established in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn. Simon & Schuster has owned Atheneum properties since its acquisition of Macmillan in 1994 and it created Atheneum Books for Young Readers as an imprint for children's books in the 2000s.
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. is an American independent book publishing company founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City, with a satellite office in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing company National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland.
The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976. It is domiciled in the United States and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Amazon Publishing is Amazon's book publishing unit launched in 2009. It is composed of 15 imprints including AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing, Montlake Romance, Thomas & Mercer, 47North, and TOPPLE Books.
Penguin Random House LLC is an American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Group and Random House. Penguin Books was originally founded in 1935 and Random House was founded in 1927. It has more than 300 publishing imprints. Along with Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House is considered one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers.
Atria Publishing Group is a general interest publisher and a division of Simon & Schuster. The publishing group launched as Atria Books in 2002. The Atria Publishing Group was later created internally at Simon & Schuster to house a number of imprints including Atria Books, Atria Trade Paperbacks, Atria Books Espanol, Atria Unbound, Washington Square Press, Emily Bestler Books, Atria/Beyond Words, Cash Money Content, Howard Books, Marble Arch Press, Strebor Books, 37 Ink, Keywords Press and Enliven Books. Atria is also known for creating innovative imprints and co-publishing deals with African-American writers as well as known for experimenting with digital or non-traditional print formats and authors.
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