Longshot Market Q

[GeekGirl]

It looks like most people here are doing ficition for older kids and adults, but I was wondering if anyone could point me to a decent online resource for publishers of children's fantasy picture books. My SCBWI 2006 Market book has very few listed for this genre and of those, when I've checked the publisher's sites, most are no longer accepting mss.

This is the part of writing I really don't enjoy.

 

[Stuart Jaffe]

Most major fiction publishing houses handle children's fiction as well. An easy way to find out is to go to the bookstore and look at who is publishing the kinds of books your talking about. Keep in mind, though, just about every major house will require you to have an agent -- particularly in children's books (particularly paritcularly in fantasy children's books) which is an overcrowded field.

 

[GeekGirl]

Yeah, I've been seeing a trend toward requiring an agent over the years.


I've been looking for children's fantasy pic books to check on publishers and there just aren't many out (plenty of intermediate stuff, but not much younger kid stuff at all) so you'd think it would be a decent niche, but alas.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

If you can't find some representative books/publishers in a bookstore, go to a library and ask the children's librarian to help you hunt up some fantasy picture books. She'll almost certainly be happy to oblige. (And glad to get away from the desk and into the stacks.)

 

[BookStop]

What age group are you targeting?

 

[GeekGirl]

Thanks Teresa, I may try that. I've already searched the online catalogue without much luck, but she could tell me if there's another search combo I'll have more luck using.

BookStop, this one's a story picture book for 4-9 year-olds.

 

[BookStop]

Here is a list of children's publishers.

Children’s School Specialty
Children's Press
Cook Communications
Grolier Children's Publishing
Grosset and Dunlap
Harcourt Achieve
Harcourt Brace School Division
Houghton Mifflin
Innovative Kids
John Wiley & Sons
Leapfrog
Lifeway
Macmillan Publishing UK
McGraw Hill Children’s Publishing
Price Stern Sloan PSS! (Penguin Putnam)
Quarasan
Rainbow Educational Concepts
Rigby
Scholastic
Scholastic Magazine
Standard Publishing
Wilkinson Studios
ZonderKids (Zondervan)

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

That's an impressive list, Bookstop.

Geekgirl, rather than give you more search terms, a children's librarian who knew her library would be able to take you right to the books themselves. (And human beings don't require exact search terms. Give her a general idea of what you are looking for, and she'll probably be off and running.)