Children’s Publishing

As the end of 2023 comes into view, the year looks like a disappointing one for children’s book sales across all categories.

Bonnier Books UK is launching the nonfiction children’s imprint Hatch Press, planning to publish about 30 titles a year.

Fox Chapel is mainly known as an enthusiast publisher of craft and activity books.

Paw Prints Readers will publish works exploring diverse cultures and backgrounds.

Australian publisher Hardie Grant is launching its children’s imprint, Bright Light, for the North American market.

An overview of the factors that contribute to market designation in books for older children Traditionally grouped together as children’s

Love in the Library is a picture book about how the author’s Japanese-American grandparents met at an internment camp during World War II.

DSTLRY was founded this month by former executives at ComiXology (owned by Amazon).

Transit Children’s Editions, an offshoot of Transit Books, will feature noteworthy picture books from around the world.

Known for its illustrated books, Utah-based publisher Gibbs Smith is launching 7 Cats Press, an imprint devoted to “early learning concepts.”

Entangled is a women-owned publisher distributed by Macmillan that is best known for romance.

Mayo Clinic Press Kids will publish “engaging mental and physical wellness content for children” for both the trade and educational market

ASH Literary is a children’s- and YA-focused agency established in 2020.

Driving the children’s/YA market are plot-centric books enriched with images (comics, manga), cross-platform content (Netflix, TikTok) and even old-school author visits.

In response to Barnes & Noble’s decision to reduce stock of hardcovers, Open Road is launching a “fall hardcover discovery initiative”.

Trustbridge, which owns Candlewick Press and others, is starting to develop kids’ and family programming based on its library of titles.

4U2B Books & Media is a new imprint that will publish children’s books as well as select titles for adults.

Austin-based startup Literati offers subscription book boxes and online book clubs primarily in the children’s market.

HarperCollins Children’s and Clarion Books have launched Allida Books, named for a “Korean word that means to inform, announce, or make known.”

Readyland books work with Amazon Alexa to allow kids to talk with characters, respond to questions, play games, choose songs, and more.

B&T’s Paw Prints Publishing will publish books for children ages three to eight.

Greenburger Associates has established Greenburger Kids, which specializes in representation of authors and illustrators of children’s books.

Random House Children’s Books is launching a line of original early reader books inspired by unpublished Dr. Seuss illustrations.

Bright Matter Books, operating under Random House Children’s Books, will publish educational nonfiction.

YA top sellers tend to remain so for a long time, and series do best (no surprise)