Childrens Book Publishers
Top Children's Book Publishers
Children have different tastes when it comes to books. There are those that love fictions and novels, some like adventure and hero books while others like mystery. Whatever the genre are, books are made to cater to different age levels and authors are the important characters in making it possible for children to get transported to a different world as they immerse themselves reading.
How do these authors publish their books, though? There are basically two types of publishers of children’s books: the multinational conglomerates or the mega publishers which have various divisions and the independent presses which are smaller companies.
Here’s a list of the famous childrens book publishers today.
* Random house is the most popular and highly-acclaimed publisher because the world’s largest collection of English books for children are published by this company. It has ten divisions for children’s publishing. Popular authors are Judy Blume and Philip Pullman. The company also published the Dr. Seuss Series, and other characters Barbie, Disney, Sesame Workshop, and Thomas the Tank Engine.
* Simon & Schuster has three divisions which targets preschoolers to young teenagers. Their famous imprints include Aladdin Paperbacks. It also has an imprint which publishes books tied to TV shows like Rugrats, Blue's Clues and SpongeBob Square Pants.
* Little, Brown Books has two divisions which publish board books for infants to novels for teens. Bestselling series include Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
* Macmillan publishes books under nine divisions which gives individual guidelines for book submission. Its American publishers are:
- Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Henry Holt & Company
- W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Bedford/St. Martin’s
- Picador
- Roaring Brook Press
- St. Martin ’s Press
- Tor Books
- Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group.
* HarperCollins has published the famous “ Charlotte ’s Web” and countless award-winning titles. It has 12 divisions.
* Scholastic, Inc. is known for selling and distributing books by mail order. It has the exclusive rights to “Harry Potter” in America .
* Penguin Putnam revolutionized publishing in the 1930s and now has 11 divisions for children’s publishing.
* Lerner Publishing Group is an independent press with seven imprints for the young readers.
* Bloomsbury Children's Books USA is the original publisher of “Harry Potter” in UK .
* Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Books has three imprints and the Graphia and Sandpiper paperback lines. It published book characters like Curious George.
* Harcourt Children's Books has famous classics like The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge and The Little Prince.