Updated Tuesday September 8th: They are currently open to submissions from Canadian Authors and illustrators only, now through the 30th of September.

Their books have been mentioned or reviewed in the following publications: The New York Times, the Globe and Mail, CBC, Kirkus, Booklist, and School Library Journal, and selected for numerous awards. In 2022, the press was nominated for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher.

Their website is easy to use and well organized and their covers are generally excellent. They publish picture books, nonfiction for children, and middle grade fiction. You can get a good feel for what they publish by visiting their catalogue here.

On their website they also stress that they care about the following.

• Creating books that reflect and include a diversity of voices, communities, and experiences;
• Ensuring that all children can see themselves represented in the books and magazines they read;
• Helping to address the systemic anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism and other prejudices that exist within our industry and which have limited the types of stories, information, and role models that children have access to;
• Looking inward and recognizing that change starts with our own company culture, our hiring practices, the creators we publish, and the content we produce.

They are only open to queries made via their submissions manager form, during the pandemic, although outside of it, they do accept mailed submissions.

They only accept submissions by people age 18+. You can learn more about their submissions guidelines here. Please follow them.

Emily Harstone is the author of many popular books, including The Authors Publish Guide to Manuscript Submissions, Submit, Publish, Repeat, and The 2021 Guide to Manuscript Publishers.