Publishers

Canada boosts an amazing range of Canadian children's publishers.

Purchase our Publishers List 2024 (Digital Edition) ($5.95) for an up-to-date list of Canadian children’s publishers currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts and artwork. For each publisher, the document indicates the genres they accept, how to submit, and other important details.

 

CCBC Publisher Members

 

Annick Press logo

Founded in 1975, Annick Press is a proudly independent children’s publisher based in Toronto, Canada. Annick is recognized as one of the most innovative publishers of fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults.

HarperCollinsCanada logo

Known worldwide for the quality of its list, HarperCollinsCanada is the proud home of many bestselling and award-winning authors. They strive to publish the best books of our generation and to work with authors over the length and breadth of their careers.

Heritage House is an independent book publisher based in Victoria, BC that is committed to amplifying the stories and voices of the extraordinary people who have helped shape the diverse cultural landscape of Western Canada.

Kids Can Press logo

Kids Can Press is a leading Canadian-owned children’s book publisher, and a Corus Entertainment company. KCP is a globally recognized content company whose books have enjoyed critical acclaim around the world.

Nimbus publishes in a broad span of genres including children’s picture and fiction books, non-fiction, history, nature photography, current events, biography, sports, and cultural issues. It is the largest Canadian-English language publisher east of Toronto.

Orca logo

Founded in 1984, Orca is an independently owned Canadian children’s book publisher of award-winning, bestselling books in a number of genres. Orca prides itself on publishing Canadian authors and illustrators and bringing them to a wider market.

owl kids books logo

Owlkids Books is an award-winning independent publisher of books for young readers from ages 0 to 14. They publish board books, picture books, non-fiction, fiction, and graphic novels hat help instill in children everywhere a love of reading and of learning about the world around them.

Plumleaf Press logo

Plumleaf Press is an independent book publisher, launched in 2022. Plumleaf publishes engaging, beautifully designed literary books and embraces authors from diverse communities. They focus on books for women and children. 

Scholastic logo

Scholastic Canada is one of the country's leading publishers and distributors of children's books and educational materials in both official languages. For over 65 they have introduced young people to the joys of reading. 

 

 

Additional Canadian Publishers of Children's and Young Adult Books 

Acorn Press 

Breakwater Books  

Cormorant Books: DCB 

Dundern Press 

Firefly Books

Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

Flanker Press Ltd.  

Fontreal

Formac Publishing   

Granville Island Publishing

Great Plains Publications

Greystone Books

Groundwood Books  

HighWater Press   

Inhabit Media Inc.  

James Lorimer & Company  

Medicine Wheel Publishing

Native Northwest 

Pajama Press  

Penguin Group Canada

Playwrights Canada Press  

Raincoast Books

Red Deer Press  

Ronsdale Press   

Second Story Press 

The Secret Mountain 

Simon & Schuster Canada

Shadowpaw Press 

Thistledown Press  

Tradewind Books  

Tundra Book Group  

Yellow Dog