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Best Children's Book Publishing Companies

Showing 173 publishers that match your search.

Faithwords

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

Part of: Hachette > Hachette Nashville > Faithwords

Location: Nashville, US

Website: https://www.faithwords.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power

T. D. Jakes

Healing the Soul of a Woman

Joyce Meyer

The Shack

William P. Young

Just Us Books

Genres: Picture Book, African-American, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Children's, and Poetry

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://justusbooks.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Queries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Talk

Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson

We Could Be Brothers

Derrick Barnes

Albert Whitman & Company

Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Fantasy, Art, History, Historical Fiction, Environmental, Math & Science, Action & Adventure, Humor, Science Fiction, Diverse Literature, Children's, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Novella

Location: Chicago, US

Website: https://www.albertwhitman.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries & book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Boxcar Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Dust of Eden

Mariko Nagai

We Want to Go to School!

Maryann Cocca-Leffler & Janine Leffler

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Genres: Education & Reference, Picture Book, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Children's

Location: Boston, US

Website: https://www.hmhco.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Largest

💥 Hit titles
My Little Ocean

Katrin Wiehle

Almost Time

Gary D. Schmidt et al

Ghosts of the Missing

Kathleen Donohoe

Clarion Books

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

Part of: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt > Clarion Books

Location: Boston, US

Website: https://www.harpercollins.com/collections/books-by-clarion-books

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries -

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
The One Thing You'd Save

Linda Sue Park

The Raconteur's Commonplace Book

Kate Milford

The Wednesday Wars

Gary D. Schmidt

Harper Teen

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

Part of: HarperCollins > HarperCollins Children's Books > Harper Teen

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://www.harpercollins.com/collections/books-for-teens

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

Coraline

Neil Gaiman

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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

Part of: Hachette > Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://www.lbyr.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
The Queen of Nothing

Holly Black

Dear Evan Hansen

Val Emmich et al

Think Big, Little One

Vashti Harrison

Baker Books

Genres: Christian, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Children's

Part of: Baker Publishing Group > Baker Books

Location: Detroit, US

Website: http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/bakerbooks

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
A Place Called Heaven

Robert Jeffress

It's Okay Not to Be Okay: Moving Forward One Day at a Time

Sheila Walsh

40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

Wendy Speake

Greenwillow Books

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

Part of: HarperCollins > HarperCollins Children's Books > Greenwillow

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://www.greenwillowbooks.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Amelia Bedelia

Peggy Parish

The Bear and the Star

Lola M Schaefer

Return of the Thief

Megan Whalen Turner

Heritage House

Genres: Art, Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, History, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Math & Science, Travel, Sports & Outdoors, True Crime, Humor, Nonfiction, and Children's

Part of: Heritage Group > Heritage House

Location: Vancouver, CA

Website: https://www.heritagehouse.ca/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Railways Nation: Tales of Canadian Pacific

David Laurence Jones

Scallywag on the Salish Sea

Sara Cassidy

Wagon Road North

Art Downs

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