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; Michael Foreman, creator of The Little Reindeer; Max Velthuijs whose Frog series has sold in over 25 languages and who was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2004.

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.

Other names on the Andersen list are authors Jeanne Willis and Hiawyn Oram. Jeanne Willis has partnered Tony Ross to create some of the most hilarious picture books for children including the Dr Xargle series and Smarties Award winner, Tadpole’s Promise.

Hiawyn Oram has collaborated with several different artists including Tony Ross and Hiawyn collaborated with Satoshi Kitamura on Angry Arthur which won the Mother Goose Award. Emma Chichester Clark is the creator of the bestselling Blue Kangaroo series as well as one off titles such as Up in Heaven and Will and Squill.

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.

‘Publisher of beautiful, well-made picture books’ Scotsman

‘Our most stylish children’s list’ The Times

‘[Andersen Press] produce some of our most delightful and visually attractive books for children’ Creative Review

‘Andersen books thrive on being pored over, talked about and shared’ Books for Keeps

Please use the Search facility at the top of this page. All our books in print are listed and you can search by author name, title, or ISBN number.

Andersen Press publishes mainly picture books, for which the required text would be under 1000 words, early readers fiction for which the text is about 3-5000 words long, and older fiction for which the text is about 15-50,000 words.

For submission of manuscripts, we usually ask for three sample chapters if the work is a novel, a synopsis and return postage.

For picture books, 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. It is not essential to send both art and text.

All submissions should be addressed to:

Submissions Editor
Andersen Press Ltd.
20 Vauxhall Bridge Road
London SW1V 2SA

Please note we do not publish poetry or short stories.

Please do not send manuscripts or samples of your illustration via email. Andersen Press will only accept submissions via post and addressed to the Submissions Editor.

We aim to respond within two months of receipt although there will be times when that isn't possible.

Some of our authors and artists do have their own websites.

For a list of these, please click here

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:

Author's Name
c/o Andersen Press
Publicity Department
20 Vauxhall Bridge Road
London SW1V 2SA

To request a specific author for a Festival, Bookshop or Library event, please send a written request (stating author's name, venue, date, number of sessions, size of audience etc) to the Publicity Department, at the above address.

Short author biographies are available on our Authors & Illustrators pages, but if you would like more information you can email a request to the Andersen Press Publicity Department at andersenpublicity@randomhouse.co.uk and we willl email a longer biography to you.

Andersen Press has a strong and successful reputation for selling translation rights. For further information and foreign rights enquiries please click here to email our rights director.

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Book Trust: www.booktrusted.com

Books for Keeps: www.booksforkeeps.co.uk

Carousel: www.carouselguide.co.uk

Cool Reads: www.cool-reads.co.uk

Federation of Children's Book Groups: www.fcbg.org.uk

The Illustration Cupboard: www.illustrationcupboard.com

Kids' Review: www.kidsreview.org.uk

Mrs Mad's Book-a-Rama: www.mrsmad.com

Read Together: www.readtogether.co.uk

Reading Connects: www.readingconnects.org.uk

Reading is Fundamental RIF: www.rif.org.uk

Stories from the Web www.storiesfromtheweb.org

Write Away: www.writeaway.org.uk

Young Writers: www.youngwriters.co.uk

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