Children’s Publishing

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Random House Children’s Books is launching a line of original early reader books inspired by unpublished Dr.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

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Rocket Bird Books will focus on picture books “with no limits.” Beginning in 2023, it will release 10 picture books,

Astra announced the launch of its children’s division, Astra Books for Young Readers, which will house one new imprint—Astra Young Readers

Merriam-Webster Kids will launch in fall 2021 and be focused on word books for kids of all ages. The first book in the series, Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day.

Astra Publishing House is launching a children’s book imprint in fall 2022 that will target ages newborn to 12, focusing on illustrated titles.

The new children’s imprint debuts this summer with board books, picture books, and more for children up to seven.

Hometown World is an illustrated children’s book imprint that produces customized regional picture books.

Rivers is currently accepting queries for middle grade and YA fiction and graphic novels, as well as picture books.

Neon Squid Books from Big Five publisher Macmillan is a new London-based imprint for children.

Welbeck Publishing Group and Mosquito Books of Barcelona are launching Orange Mosquito, which will publish 20 children’s and YA titles per year.

Literati was in the news recently for raising $40 million in funding to support its print book subscriptions for children.

Established in 2017, Literati sends parents a curated box of five children’s books each month, for a monthly membership fee of $9.95.

Red Comet Press is a brand-new children’s publisher that will release three picture books and one illustrated novel for older readers this fall.

Founded in 1993, Milestone is a Black-owned publisher known for creating a Black superhero comics universe.