2007-12-28 01:34:18 · 6 answers · asked by gldnsilnc 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
There are six major publishing house conglomerates. You can think of each publishing conglomerate as the "overseer" of smaller publishing brands, called "imprints." There are several imprints for children's books under each "overseer."
Just a few are:
Harper Collins Children's
Egmont USA
Buster Books
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Puffin Books
Carolrhoda Books
Dragonfly Books
Dutton Children's Books
There are dozens more! If you search for some of the major conglomerates' sites, you should get links to their various imprints, including children's books.
The conglomerates are: Harpercollins, Holtzbrinck Publishers, Penguin Group, Inc., Random House, Inc., Simon & Schuster, and Time Warner Book Group.
As a first-time children's book writer (i.e. not published yet) you will have better luck getting an agent to represent you than you will going in over the transom at any publishing house. Agented submissions actually get looked at by editors (if your agent is reputable). It's not particularly hard to get an agent, but it does take time and you can expect to get rejections the first few times you query them.
Good luck!
2007-12-28 02:01:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are several publishers that have juvenile groups:
Bantam Doubleday Dell
Farrar Straus Giroux
HarperCollins Children's Books
Scholastic Publishing
Little Brown Children
Oxford University Press
Penguin Putnam
Simon & Schuster
Scholastic Publishing
These are the major NY based groups threr are smaller publishers in NY and around the country.
2007-12-28 01:48:18 · answer #2 · answered by hfrankmann 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get the current edition of Writer's Market, found in the library or at your book store, and look within for the many mentioned publishers and literary agents that specialize in childrens' books.
2007-12-28 01:45:53 · answer #3 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok.. just go to the library, take a few children's story books and look at the back cover. there is always the publisher over there ok.
2007-12-28 01:39:32 · answer #4 · answered by akane_takahashi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but keep in mind... they are flooded with submissions from want to be book authors... Go ahead and submit, but don't expect an enthusiastic response.
It's just a fact of life these days, you have to have a track record or someone who has media exposure to be noticed.
2007-12-28 01:50:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scholastic
2007-12-28 01:41:16 · answer #6 · answered by nubiangeek 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋