ABDO has been setting the bar high for providing quality books to schools and libraries across the country and around the world since 1985. Our divisions – Abdo Kids, Pop!, Abdo Zoom, Abdo Publishing, Magic Wagon, Spotlight, and EPIC Press – are each designed to serve readers in Grades PreK-12 in unique ways. These nonfiction and fiction titles are available as library bound hardcover books, and most are also available as eBooks.
Founded in 1949, ABRAMS was the first company in the United States to specialize in publishing art and illustrated books. The company continues to publish critically acclaimed and best-selling works in the areas of art, photography, cooking, craft, comics, interior and garden design, entertainment, fashion, and popular culture; children’s books ranging from middle grade to young adult fiction to picture books to board books.
In 1992, Candlewick Press opened its doors as an independent children’s publisher, and remains an independent publisher today. As part of Walker Books Group, Candlewick Press enjoys a unique ownership structure which includes more than 75 employees in our US office, staff in our UK and AUS offices, plus more than 150 authors and illustrators.
We create awesome learning experiences. Helping children develop a love of reading and learning, no matter their ability level, is at the heart of what we do at Capstone. Our passion for creating inspired learning has made us the most trusted publisher of children’s books and digital solutions for libraries, classrooms, and consumers for 25 years. Capstone’s content comes in a variety of print, and digital formats including board books, picture books, interactive books, apps, audio, and databases.
Cherry Lake Publishing and Sleeping Bear Press have come together as one company to provide quality and relevant content for schools and libraries. Our resources, both print and eBooks, engage students in lasting and meaningful ways, help drive student achievement and performance, and better prepare them for life in the 21st century.
Crabtree Publishing Company is dedicated to producing high-quality, curriculum-aligned books and educational products for PreK-9+. Each resource blends accuracy, immediacy, and eye-catching illustration with the goal of inspiring lifelong interest in reading and learning in children. The company began in 1978 as a quality children’s nonfiction book publisher with acclaimed author Bobbie Kalman’s series about the early pioneers and historic communities.
HarperCollins Children’s Books is one of the leading publishers of children’s and teen books. Respected worldwide for its tradition of publishing quality, award-winning books for young readers, HarperCollins is home to many timeless treasures and bestsellers such as Charlotte’s Web, Goodnight Moon, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Where the Wild Things Are and The Hate U Give and series including The Chronicles of Narnia, Ramona, Warriors,A Series of Unfortunate Events, Pete the Cat, Fancy Nancy, Divergent, and Red Queen.
For nearly two centuries, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Trade division has published some of the world’s most renowned novels, nonfiction, children’s books, and reference works in hardcover, trade paperback, and eBook formats. Our distinguished author list includes eight Nobel Prize winners, 47 Pulitzer Prize winners, 13 National Book Award winners, and more than 100 Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, and Sibert Medal and Honor recipients.
Nomad Press is an educational publisher dedicated to sparking the interest of young readers in the fascinating world around them. Biographies, project-based narratives that focus on both social studies and STEM topics, nonfiction picture books, and historical mysteries make up our title list, and every book includes unique illustrations, links to primary sources, fascinating trivia facts, essential questions, and much more.
North Star Editions, Inc., is a privately-owned publishing company dedicated to guiding readers toward a lifetime love of reading. NSE offers fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults that inspires, informs, and entertains. NSE publishes Flux, a young adult fiction imprint, and Jolly Fish Press, a middle-grade fiction imprint.
Orca Book Publishers is a publisher of high-quality, award-winning books for children and teens and reluctant readers of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books through captivating juvenile fiction, and compelling novels for teen readers to professionally written teachers’ guides, Orca is dedicated to bringing the best possible books to young readers.
Peachtree publishes quality hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. At Peachtree we have dedicated ourselves to the craft of publishing for over 40 years and have 500+ titles in print, many of which are on state lists and have won critical acclaim and awards. Our list includes picture books, early readers, middle grade books, and young adult literature. We are actively working on curriculum alignment of our titles.
Rourke Educational Media is committed to helping English Language Learners (ELLs) succeed through our many programs and reading series. We present a wide range of bilingual and dual-language resources that support all ELLs. Rourke Educational Media has been assisting ELL students with custom-created print and technology programs to improve comprehension and vocabulary worldwide.
Saddleback Educational Publishing has the largest assortment of Hi/Lo material anywhere. Saddleback’s solutions incorporate mature, complex themes (high-interest) at lower reading levels (low readability). This combination engages readers by giving them content they WANT to read, while setting them up for success. Dedicated to the struggling reader for over 30 years, Saddleback creates solutions to engage by offering various levels and styles of content without sacrificing rigor.
Simon & Schuster is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of ViacomCBS founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints.
Sourcebooks is a thriving entrepreneurial publishing company based in the Chicago suburbs which brings extraordinary authors to readers in the most dynamic, data-driven ways. We create books that transcend categories and defy odds, and have been honored with hundreds of national bestsellers and national and state awards. We are home to enthusiastic, book-loving employees who are dedicated to connecting books to readers in new and innovative ways.
Sterling Publishing is an innovative and forward-thinking publishing company committed to creating books that inspire, educate, and entertain. Our titles range from board and picture books for the youngest children to nonfiction anthologies from the New York Times and our popular Milestones series, which highlights the top 250 groundbreaking moments in such fields as math, biology, law, and philosophy.
Across four generations of family participation, we have never been a company that chases the latest trends or bows to industry formulas. We remain an independent publisher committed to crafting internationally sought-after picture books and superb core-material nonfiction for readers of all ages. Pick up a Creative book, and your eyes and fingers will recognize the difference. High standards, high quality, high reward.
Thorndike Press, a Gale Company, shares the Follett mission to “empower educators to lay the strongest possible foundation for student learning.” The bedrock upon which that foundation rests is literacy. However, that bedrock has a massive fault line. According to NAEP’s 2017 National Report Card, 63% of 8th graders are unable to read at grade level. Educators looking for an easy, low cost, no-tech solution to this problem will see immediate benefits by using large print in the classroom.
Workman is an independent, family-owned publisher. Our imprints include Workman Publishing, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Algonquin Young Readers, Artisan, Storey Publishing, and Timber Press. We are also partners with The Experiment, duopress, and Erewhon. We are publishers of award-winning cookbooks, parenting/pregnancy guides, books on gardening, country living, and humor, as well as children’s books, gift books, fiction, and the best-selling calendar line in the business.
