Children’s Books

Enchanted Lion: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

Enchanted Lion is a children’s book publisher based in Brooklyn that was founded in 2003. You can learn more about their team here. Their books are well designed, engaging, and have great covers. Many of the books they have published have been featured in the New York Times, and won awards. They are well distributed…
Children's Books Issue Five Hundred One Manuscript Publishers

Dancing Lemur Press: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

Dancing Lemur Press is a small US Press that has been actively publishing work since 2009. They are based in North Carolina and seem to regularly participate in local events. They don’t have active distribution, which is to say that although they are distributed with Ingram, Ingram is not actively involved in placing their books…
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Stone Pier Press: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

Stone Pier Press is a niche publisher that describes themselves as “an environmental publishing company with a food focus.” They are a San Francisco based non-profit focused towards a climate-friendly food system. They say they do this by “publishing good books about good food and producing solutions-oriented news and tips. Much of our focus is…
Children's Books Cookbooks Fiction Issue Four Hundred Ninety One Manuscript Publishers Non Fiction

Pelican Children’s Books: Now Accepting Book Queries

Pelican Children’s Books has always been an imprint of Pelican Publishing. In 2019 Arcadia Publishing purchased Pelican Publishing, and now Pelican Children’s Books is an imprint of Arcadia. Pelican Children’s Books is based in New Orleans, as it always has been, and they’ve published a lot of regional children’s books, although they are open to…
Children's Books Issue Four Hundred Sixty Eight Manuscript Publishers Young Adult

Lion Hudson: Now Accepting Manuscript Queries

Updated May 9th, 2023: Their website has been down for at least a month. I’m not sure if they are defunct or not, but even if their website was to work again I’d approach with caution. Lion Hudson is an imprint of SPCK Group, which bills itself as “More than a publisher. More than a…
Children's Books Christian Fiction Issue Four Hundred Sixty Six Manuscript Publishers Non Fiction

City of Light Publishing: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

City of Light Publishing is a small press with many imprints, based out of Buffalo, New York. In some ways City of Light is a new press, they only came to be known by this name in 2019, when they started to have more of a national and international reach. Before that, previous iterations were…
Children's Books Issue Four Hundred Sixty Three Literary Fiction Manuscript Publishers Non Fiction Young Adult

Bala Kids: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

Bala Publications is an imprint of  Shambhala Publications, an independent publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado. They are distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services. Shambhala Publications was founded in 1969 and “is dedicated to creating books, audio, and immersive courses aimed at improving lives—in ways big and small—in the hope of contributing to the…
Children's Books Issue Four Hundred Fifty Six

Cardinal Rule Press: Accepting Manuscript Queries

Updated March 18th 2024 They are respected children’s picture book publisher only open to submissions during certain times of year. They hope to empower children by telling meaningful stories aimed at 4-11 year olds. The work they publish is realistic fiction which they describe as “a genre made up of stories that could happen in…
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Feral House: Now Accepting Manuscript Queries

Feral House is a small independent publisher based in Port Townsend, Washington state. They were founded in 1989 by Adam Parfrey who has since passed away. They publish unique and unusual nonfiction and they are particularly interested in documenting cultural movements. They publish memoirs, biographies, and many other works of nonfiction including history not found…
Children's Books Issue Four Hundred Forty Seven Manuscript Publishers Non Fiction

Magination Press: Now Accepting Manuscript Queries

UPDATED  January 19th 2023: They appear to no longer be accepting submissions. There are no longer any guidelines on their website. Magination Press is the children’s book imprint of the American Psychological Association. As a publisher they focus on sharing mental health expertise and psychological knowledge. The books they publish include bestsellers and much-loved family…
Children's Books Issue Four Hundred Forty Two

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