Children of all Ages

[Writecastlesinthesky]

Perusing through a craft magazine this morning I found this add for a publishing house called GROUNDWOOD BOOKS.

Publishes novel-length literary fiction for children of all ages. 'We do not generally publish stories with an obvious moral or message or genre fictions such as thrillers or mysteries. We do not publish high-interest/low vocabulary fiction stories with anthropomorphic animals or elves/fairies as their main characters."

I am curious. What kind of children's books do they publish then?

[Cookie]

Books about going to sleep or doing chores?

[Watcher55]

How about something like OLIVER TWIST? I know we don't consider it a children's book, but I think a lot of the themes are perfectly suited for children's lit. Adventure stories ala Robert Louis Stevenson. I think it's a great idea.

[Ishta]

Groundwood is a Canadian publisher that publishes a selection of very good picture books, as well as literary MG and YA. Some of their books are: I KNOW HERE, by Laurel Croza and illustrated by Matt James, about a girl who faces her uncertainties about moving to a big city; The STELLA books, and others by Marie Louise Gay; MOTHER NUMBER ZERO, by Marjolijn Hof, about an adopted boy's search for his birth mother.

A number of their books are award-winning. Unfortunately, they are not open to unsolicited submissions - but they do not explicitly rule out unsolicited queries. We can hope, right?

[MattLarkin]

Groundwood is a Canadian publisher that publishes a selection of very good picture books, as well as literary MG and YA. Some of their books are: I KNOW HERE, by Laurel Croza and illustrated by Matt James, about a girl who faces her uncertainties about moving to a big city; The STELLA books, and others by Marie Louise Gay; MOTHER NUMBER ZERO, by Marjolijn Hof, about an adopted boy's search for his birth mother.

A number of their books are award-winning. Unfortunately, they are not open to unsolicited submissions - but they do not explicitly rule out unsolicited queries. We can hope, right?

I would interpret not open to submissions to include queries, though I guess you don't have much to lose by asking.