Andersen Press, founded in 1976, publishes some of the most well known and best loved names in the world of children's books. These include David McKee, the creator of Elmer the patchwork elephant; Tony Ross, who has given us the Little Princess; Ruth Brown, whose books include classics such as A Dark Dark Tale and The Big Sneeze; Michael Foreman, creator of Jack's Fantastic Voyage and One World; Max Velthuijs whose Frog series has sold in 25 languages; and Colin McNaughton, whose Preston Pig series are among Andersen's bestselling titles worldwide.
Andersen Press titles such as Not Now, Bernard and Badger’s Parting Gifts are now regarded as modern classics and many fit perfectly into the requirements of the Literacy Hour, with retellings of traditional tales, books with rhyming or repetitive texts
Andersen is also well known for its fiction list, which includes award-winning authors such as Melvin Burgess. When Andersen published his novel Junk it caused a media stir, winning the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize as well as being shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. Our fiction authors include Hazel Townson, Sandra Glover, Julia Jarman, Henning Mankell, Rebecca Lisle and Rosie Rushton.
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'A publisher of integrity'
Sunday Telegraph
'Publisher of beautiful, well-made picture books.'
Scotsman
'The enterprising and imaginative children's publisher'
Bookseller
'Thanks to Andersen Press, children around the world dream, laugh, and learn to love good books'
Christine Baker, Gallimard Jeunesse
'Our most stylish children's list'
The Times
 Klaus Flugge |
|  Klaus Flugge was born in Germany in 1934. He trained as a bookseller in Leipzig but his political views forced him to flee East Germany in 1953, arriving eventually in New York in 1957. There he worked for Abelard-Schuman who, in 1962, asked him to run their London office. He became Managing Director and Publisher of adult and children’s books initially finding British artists, like Quentin Blake, Charles Keeping and John Vernon Lord, for American manuscripts. Soon thereafter Klaus began originating his own books, which included titles by Edward Ardizzone, Joan Aiken and David McKee whose first book was published in 1964. It was called Two-Can Toucan – a book that is still in print with Andersen Press today.
In 1976, Klaus Flugge set up his own publishing company – Andersen Press – named in tribute to Hans Christian Andersen. The first book on the list was Goldilocks and the Three Bears by the then newly discovered Tony Ross. The Andersen Press list now consists of over 1000 published titles, the majority of which are still in print. Andersen Press specialises in picture books and children’s fiction and publishes some of the best loved names in the field, including picture books by Ruth Brown, Michael Foreman, Satoshi Kitamura, David McKee, Tony Ross, Emma Chichester Clark, Max Velthuijs, Jeanne Willis, Hiawyn Oram and Susan Varley. The fiction list includes prize-winning titles by Melvin Burgess, Sandra Glover, Julia Jarman and Hazel Townson. Andersen Press has published a number of titles that have become modern classics including A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown, I Want My Potty by Tony Ross, Badger’s Parting Gifts by Susan Varley, Not Now Bernard by David McKee and Angry Arthur by Satoshi Kitamura. Probably the most well known character on the list is Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, created by David McKee, with ever increasing sales of board books, novelty and picture books and there is also a wide range of Elmer merchandise available. Klaus Flugge received the Eleanor Farjeon Award, for outstanding contribution to children’s books, in 1999. 
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Andersen Press is a specialist children's publisher. We publish picture books, for which the required text would be approximately 500 words (maximum 1000), juvenile fiction for which the text would be approximately 3-5000 words and older fiction up to 75,000 words.
We do not publish adult fiction, non-fiction, poetry or short story anthologies.
Please send all submissions on paper, by regular post, along with a stamped, addressed envelope.
Please note that your work will be recycled if you do not enclose an envelope and sufficient postage for its return. We do not accept International Reply Coupons.
All picture book submissions and illustration submissions should be addressed to:
The Picture Book Submissions Department
Andersen Press Ltd
20 Vauxhall Bridge Road
London
SW1V 2SAWhen sending both illustrations and text, please send photocopied examples of artwork or sketches, plus a synopsis and the full text. DO NOT post originals, as any losses cannot be accounted for. Alternatively you can submit text or illustrations on their own.
All juvenile and older fiction submissions should be addressed to:
The Fiction Submissions Department
Andersen Press Ltd
20 Vauxhall Bridge Road
London
SW1V 2SA Please send only a synopsis and the first three chapters.
Please do not send submissions via email.
We try to read all submissions as quickly as possible, but due to the very large number we receive every week we are unable to enter into personal correspondence or give editorial guidance on the material we reject. We try to respond within two months, but there will be times when this isn’t possible. We will respond to every submission we receive.
For details of books recently published by Andersen Press, please look at our website, www.andersenpress.co.uk.
Thank you for your interest in Andersen Press. We look forward to hearing from you.
Contacting an Andersen Press Authors or Artist
Many of our authors have their own websites. See the
Authors and Illustrators pages for links to these sites.
If you would like to write to an author please send your letter to the following address and it will be forwarded on to them:
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