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Groundwood Books is an independent Canadian children's publisher based in Toronto. Our authors and illustrators are highly acclaimed both in Canada and internationally, and our books are loved by children around the world. We look for books that are unusual; we are not afraid of books that are difficult or potentially controversial; and we are particularly committed to publishing books for and about children whose experiences of the world are under-represented elsewhere.

Groundwood Books is proud to be a part of House of Anansi Press.

We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

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Groundwood Books is an independent Canadian publisher of beautiful and thought-provoking books for children. For over 35 years we have been attracting attention, praise, starred reviews and awards for our warm and intelligent children’s books.

Publishing in August from Groundwood Books

July 15, 2015 - We’ve got four great books publishing next month — all on August 1st; here are the books to keep an eye out for: Grant and Tillie Go Walking by Monica Kulling Illustrated by Sydney Smith Grant Wood believed that to be a real artist, he had to live in Paris. But once he got there, […]

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Sydney Smith

Illustration copyright © Sydney Smith from Sidewalk Flowers, written by JonArno Lawson.

Aimee Sicuro

Illustration copyright © Aimee Sicuro from Bright Sky, Starry City, written by Uma Krishnaswami.

Kellen Hatanaka

Illustration copyright © Kellen Hatanaka from Work: An Occupational ABC.

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Gary Clement

Illustration copyright © Gary Clement from Swimming, Swimming.

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House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books
110 Spadina Ave., Suite 801
Toronto, ON
M5V 2K4
416-363-4343
houseofanansi.com

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Anansi and Groundwood books are distributed to the book trade in Canada by University of Toronto Press Distribution and in the U.S. by Publishers Group West. For orders outside North America, please contact us.

Canadian Orders
University of Toronto Press
5201 Dufferin Street
Toronto, Ontario
M3H 5T8

Tel: (416) 667-7791
Toll-Free Tel: 1-800-565-9523
Fax: (416) 667-7832
Toll-Free Fax: 1-800-221-9985
Email: utpbooks@utpress.utoronto.ca

U.S. Orders
Publishers Group West / Perseus Books Group
1700 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA
94710

Toll-Free Tel: (800) 343-4499
Toll-Free Fax: (800) 351-5073
Email: orderentry@perseusbooks.com

Author/illustrator correspondence

For all author/illustrator correspondence, please mail your letter to the attention of the author/illustrator at our office mailing address.

Submissions

Please do not send electronic submissions. See our submissions page for details on how to submit queries and submissions.

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Media and blogger review copy requests: submit via email publicity@houseofanansi.com
Author appearances and interviews: submit via email publicity@houseofanansi.com
Book donation requests: submit via fax or email on organization letterhead to customerservice@houseofanansi.com

For desk copy requests, please visit our Teachers’ section

For rights and permissions requests, please visit our Rights section or Permissions section

We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Canada.

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