Albert Whitman & Company - Concept, picture, multicultural, holiday, and chapter books. Specializes in timely topics for children such as divorce, disability, and interracial families among others. Well known for the Boxcar Children series.

Barefoot Books - Picture books that encourage independence of spirit, enthusiasm for learning, and appreciation of the diversity and wisdom of the world's cultures.

Bellerophon Books - Inexpensive, nonfiction titles about a wide variety of topics including history, science, literature, women, music, and ships. Formats include coloring books, posters, CD's, and paper doll cut out books.

Books Noir - Fiction for children and young adults. Specializes in crime, mystery, spy, ghost, and adventure stories. Publishes the Dead Detective, Spooky Moon, and Gadget Gang series.

Boyds Mills Press - Picture books, novels, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and various activity books for children to young adults.

Bungalo Books - Picture books including the Bungalo Boys, Pokeweed Public School, Mooners, and New Reader series. Includes free activities and resources for teachers.

Carolina Wren Press - Nonprofit publisher whose Lollipop Power Books specialize in multicultural, bilingual, nonsexist, and nontraditional children's books. Publishes Puzzles, the story of a ten-year-old girl with sickle cell anemia.

Creations for Children International - Packager of mass market children's books including an extensive list of fairy tales and classic adventure stories.

Dramatic Lines Publishers - Independent press promoting drama. Publications have a wide variety of theatrical applications including use for drama examinations, auditions, festivals and theatre group performances.

Ediciones Ekare - Picture books, fiction, Indian tales, songs and stories from the Latin American and Venezuelan oral tradition, poetry, rhymes and riddles, and translations of the best children's books from other countries.

Golden Books Publishing - Publishes storybooks, educational workbooks, coloring and activity books, novelty books, reference books, chapter books, and the Little Golden Books series. Free online children's games and e-books.

HarperCollins Children's Books - Description: Publishes picture books, historical, fantasy, adventure, juvenile, literary, humor, and young adult.
Submission Needs: Good writing that is imaginative and fresh and involves the reader. We have no rules on vocabulary, length, or subject matter.
Guidelines: Query only with SASE. No unsolicited mss.

Heinemann Library - Nonfiction books for elementary and middle school readers. Subjects include animals, arts, biography, careers, drugs, economics, social science, Spanish, sports, geography, government, health and safety, history, math, reference, and science. Also publish books for the Accelerated Reader program.

Houghton Mifflin - Houghton Mifflin's Trade and Reference Division publishes award-winning books for adults and children: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and reference.

Images Unlimited - Images Unlimited was founded in 1981 by Lee Jackson. Apple cookbooks and apple related country books are the specialties of this book division. Snaptail Press, a division of Images Unlimited, was started in 2001 as the children's section. Currently there is one book under this imprint but more are in the works! Bookmark this site for all your apple recipes and new children's books.

Jackson Publishing - Independent publisher of children's books, middle-grade chapter books, and young adult novels. Our mission is to create books that will entertain, enrich, and educate the minds of the young and the young at heart.

Kane Miller Book Publishers - Independent publisher of translated children's books from all over the world.

Kids Can Press - Nonfiction, novels, picture books, and craft books. Publishes Franklin the Turtle series and books about Elliot Moose.

Koala Books - Description: An independent Australian owned children's book publisher for under ten year olds.
Submission Needs: Has an emphasis on picture books, lift-the-flap, pop-ups, chapter books: The Tadpole series.
Word Length: Seeks 600 word children's picture books and children's fiction for upper primary.

Lifevest Publishing - Provides affordable publishing, printing, and marketing services to writers of children's literature who want their works published now.

Magination Press - Books about adoption, foster care, ADD and learning disabilities, depression, disability, death and dying, emotions, family matters, fears and anxieties, medical problems, natural disasters, psychotherapy, school, and self-esteem.

Master Communications, Inc. - Publish and distribute books, audio, video, crafts, greeting cards, and dolls that are multicultural and multilingual.

New Society Publishers - Publishes books on ecology, social change and other areas of activism.

Oyate - Publishes story books, teacher's resources, reference works, audios, videos, posters, and humorous books by and about Native Americans.

Peel Productions, Inc. - How-to-draw and picture books. Includes the Alphabet Riddles series. Ages 8 and up.

Quarter Inch Publishing - Multi-cultural books for children, quilt patterns, note cards, and workshops for children and adults. Includes a calendar of events.

Random House Books for Young Readers - Random House Books aims to provide and promote books and media that educate and entertain readers from 6 months to 12 years. Fiction: Young adult, picture books, mystery, juvenile, humor. Agented submissions only. Nonfiction: sports, science, popular culture, nature/environment, history, animals. Agented submissions only.

Red Hen Press - Publishes memorable books for children and teens. Authors and artists include Hope Slaughter, Chris Strodder, Deborah Stouffer, Susan Torrence, and Lee Wardlaw.

Sandvik - International publisher of innovative animal shaped, three-dimensional, bag, hat, interactive (sound recording and playback), activity, magnetic, pillow, bouncing sound, push and pull, and baby books plus photo albums, a few toys, and the Amadeus series. For children up to 3 years old.

Scribum - Publishes children's literature via the StoryPlus Network. Scribum offers writer and illustrator resources, and agents.

WF Graham Children's Books Publishers - Publishes a wide range of inexpensive children's colouring and activity books. Specializes in assorted activity packs and mini books for promotional or give-away purposes. Website includes samples.

Winslow Press - Picture books and fiction. Each book has its own webpage with professional reviews, signing information, author/illustrator biographies, book information, facts, games, activities, and links pertinent to the book. For children and teens.