Children and YA Publishers

[GOLLUM]

*Moderators* Please move this to the YA forum...

Alia,

Here's a list of some YA publishers and their imprints. Not all of these are fanatsy per se BUT they may be of use to you and the YA forum.

Disney Children's Book Group
Disney Press
Hyperion Books for Children

Harcourt
Gulliver
Harcourt Children's Books
Silver Whistle

HarperCollins
Greenwillow
HarperCollins Children's Books
Eos (Fantasy/Sci Fi).

Houghton Mifflin
Clarion Books
Houghton Mifflin

Lee & Low Books
Lee & Low Books
Bebop Books

Marshall Cavendish
Benchmark Books
Cavendish Children's Books

Millbrook Press
Millbrook Press
Roaring Book Press

Penguin Putnam
Dial
Dutton
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Grosset & Dunlap
Philomel
Puffin
Putnam
Viking

Random House
Alfred A. Knopf
Bantam
Crown
David Fickling Books
Delacorte Press
Dell Dragonfly
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Dell Yearling Books
Doubleday
Wendy Lamb Books

Simon & Schuster
Aladdin Paperbacks
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Little Simon (Children's)
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Simon Pulse
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Simon Spotlight (Children's)

Scholastic
Cartwheel Books
Children's Press
Arthur A. Levine books
Orchard Books
Scholastic Press
Franklin Watts

Reagent Press (Publisher of Robert Stanek's popular children fantasy books Ruin Mist series).

Hope this helps..

 

[Alia]

That is a wonderful list Gollum! It's BRILLIANT!!!!!! Thank you so much! I'll see about having it moved too.

 

[GOLLUM]

No problem, mainly off the net and some info I had...

Signing off, good night Alia!..

 

[SirGeoffrey]

Right now, the YA market is exploding. Yet, you need to write something other than a dystopian novel. That theme is extremely over used!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Right now, the YA market is exploding. Yet, you need to write something other than a dystopian novel. That theme is extremely over used!

Yep, dystopian is hard to sell. (I got a couple of rejections for that even though my novel isn't dystopian). Anyway, at the moment the big market is MG. selling well, apparently. And YA magical realism.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I hear they are moving away from dystopian.

Of course since they have already bought what we'll be seeing for the next 18 months or so, it may be a while before we see less dystopian and more of something else.

Edit: And springs may have been the person I heard it from!

So what do they mean by magical realism? Contemporary real world settings, or a broader definition?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

As far as I can tell Among Others by Jo Walton is the sort of magical realism that's popular (fairies merging with the real world, a sense of place). If you haven't read it, Teresa, I think you'd enjoy it.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Writing YA is great, you have to totally focus on character and plot, and very little else - great experience for authoring generally...

 

[millymollymo]

You might want to add Strange Chemistry (Angry Robot's imprint) to the list, not everyone is aware of them. They are shaking their fist in defiance at the establishment.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

As far as I can tell Among Others by Jo Walton is the sort of magical realism that's popular ... If you haven't read it, Teresa, I think you'd enjoy it.

Thanks. I will look for that one.

 

[Robert E. Parkin]

Oh wow....Thanks for this!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Unfortunately, Strange Chemistry closed down. Some of their books were picked up by the parent Angry Robot, so maybe that imprint will offer both adult and YA for the future.