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Best Children's Book Publishing Companies

Showing 64 publishers that match your search.

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Free Spirit Publishing

Genres: Picture Book, Education & Reference, Diverse Literature, Children's, and Nonfiction

Location: Minneapolis, US

Website: https://www.freespirit.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Y Is for Yet

Shannon Anderson

Sometimes When I'm Sad

Deborah Serani

Fighting Invisible Tigers

Earl Hipp

Thames & Hudson

Genres: Picture Book, Art, History, Architecture, Math & Science, Photography, DIY, Children's, and Nonfiction

Location: London, GB

Website: https://thamesandhudson.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic

Peter Furtado

1001 Bees

Joanna Rzezak

Out to Sea

Helen Kellock

Annick Press

Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Education & Reference, Diverse Literature, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and Children's

Location: Toronto, CA

Website: https://www.annickpress.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, LGBTQ, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Yara's Spring

Jamal Saeed & Sharon E. McKay

Salma the Syrian Chef

Danny Ramadan

The Ghost Collector

Allison Mills

Boyds Mills Press

Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Children's

Part of: Astra Publishing House > Boyds Mills & Kane > Boyds Mills Press

Location: Philadelphia, US

Website: https://boydsmillsandkane.com/

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Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
View from Pagoda Hill

Michaela MacColl

Little Scoot

Rebecca Dotlich

Grow

JoAnn Early Macken, Stephanie Fizer Colman

Quarto Publishing Group

Genres: Cookbook, Art, Travel, Biographies & Memoirs, Sports & Outdoors, Architecture, DIY, Math & Science, Picture Book, Nonfiction, and Children's

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.quarto.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

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Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Emmeline Pankhurst: Little People, Big Dreams

Lisbeth Kaiser

The Complete Grimoire

Lidia Pradas

Quick Keto

Martina Slajerova

Wayne State University Press

Genres: Academic, Art, Education & Reference, History, African-American, Biographies & Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction, Environmental, Math & Science, Health & Wellbeing, Medical, Humor, Sports & Outdoors, True Crime, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Urban Fiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Children's

Location: Detroit, US

Website: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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University press

💥 Hit titles
Crusader for Justice

Trevor W. Coleman & Peter J. Hammer

Rosie, A Detroit Herstory

Bailey Sisoy Isgro

Leaving Springfield

John Alberti

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Christian, and Children's

Part of: Eerdmans Publishing > Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

Location: Detroit, US

Website: https://www.eerdmans.com/youngreaders/

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Story of Bodri

Hédi Fried

A Different Story

Adolfo Serra

Snowmen Live Forever

Thierry Dedieu

Flyaway Books

Genres: Christian, Religion & Spirituality, Diverse Literature, and Children's

Part of: Presbyterian Publishing Corporation > Westminster John Knox Press > Flyaway Books

Location: Louisville, US

Website: https://www.flyawaybooks.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

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Small press

💥 Hit titles
Walking Toward Peace

Kathleen Krull

Arthur and the Forgetful Elephant

Maria Girón

The Story of And

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

Salaam Reads

Genres: Islam and Children's

Part of: Simon and Schuster > Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing > Salaam Reads

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://salaamreads.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

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Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Amina's Song

Hena Khan

Misfit in Love

S.K. Ali

Love From A to Z

S.K. Ali

Pelican Publishing Company

Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, History, Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbook, Architecture, Humor, Sports & Outdoors, Children's, and Nonfiction

Part of: Arcadia Publishing > Pelican Publishing Company

Location: New Orleans, US

Website: https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/imprints/pelican-publishing

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Cicada's Song

Ariane O'Pry Trammell

We Really, Really Want a Dog!

Susan Holt Kralovansky

Who Dat Baby?

Allison Dugas Behan

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