Agents for Picture Books

There are agents who rep PB. It's hard to get a PB read at a major house without an agent. But many middle and smaller publishers accept them unagented. Check Agentquery.com for juvenile fiction.

Many agents will not take on a first time author on the strength of a picture book. I submitted mine (and was accepted) directly to publishers.

I now have an agent, but that is down to a YA novel. She will handle my picture books in the future but she doesn't accept authors that way. If that makes sense!

Where are you thinking of submitting to, Kilamangiro?

If it's the UK get the Children's Writers and Artists yearbook and have a browse.

Many UK publishers don't accept unsolicited manuscripts and will only see them if they come via an agent.
Trouble is a lot of the agents in the UK don't accept unsolicited manuscripts either.

I think you would have about 12 of each to go at, at the current time.

It's a bit of a tough market at the mo!

I have similar cash problems so know where you're coming from.

If you do happen to be close to a library, then you could try there. I know it's Ireland but they may have a recent copy kicking about.

Yeah... there's agents for ANY genre. Middlemen gotta make a living too!

Yep, I agree with D.C.

PB's aren't as lucrative for agents as novels. Smaller advances, and the going royalty rate is 5% (it's actually 10%, but you split with the illustrator). So you can see how it's not worth it much of the time.15% of your 5% - meh.

So there aren't many. Barry Goldblatt I know takes PB authors. He's a major player in children's books.

yep Mr. Goldblatt only takes written queries though. No manuscript just the query
He's in my top 10 list.

This is one I've been wrestling with: To agent or not for PB. I've decided to go for the middle to upper range of publishers who take unagented submissions and see what happens. Now I need to send those submissions out before I waffle and change my mind again!

I have an opinion question: One of the agents I want to submit to accepts e-mail queries. They also take snail mail. On the sub-guideline page it requests the ms with query if a pb. So should I enclude the PB in the e-mail submission? I'm thinking yes..but not 100% sure

I would say yes, paste it in. Sarah and the Sm is less than 600 words. That's my $.02. Good luck.

Pippin Properties does MG, YA and Picture books.

If you wanted to make sure, BK, you could always phone and ask. Just make sure the person who answers the phone understands that you are talking about a PB.

I actually send my mss to both publishers and agents. One publisher at a time and four agents. I don't sim sub to publishers, but agents generally (not always) seem to consider it standard practice.
I'd prefer to have an agent, simply because they know the market better than I do and they also know their way around a contract.

I haven't got either yet, but will be sure to let you know if I do!

Steph- having a hard time finding much on Pippen have you delt with them in the past?

Maybe this will help: http://www.pippinproperties.com/flash.htm

Thanks pam : )

howdy folks.

I went and got the 2008 guide to agents. I found 29 who represent juevy and childrens. There were more whom also just rep'd juevy and not childrens, also excepting a small to fair amount of unpublished authors. I don't have the hour it should take to list them all right now. But hopefully within a couple of days I should be able to post the list that I came up with.

But what are the numbers as far as the publishers that print a book without your having an agent vs. those that require you to have one. I'd always believed an agent was a no-no for picture books. Is that naive of me?

took me a few days but I finally have a few spare seconds so here is that list I mentioned I would post. Keep in mind these are picture Book agents. There were more agents that handled say YA and other Juevy but that is not what I needed to find at the time. Also, I only included whatever was needed for you to look up and find the more specific info on each agent.

Good Luck Quering!

Anderson literary management.
WWW.andersonliterary.com
Clarissa Anderson-contact

M Courtney briggs
WWW.derrickandbriggs.com

Andrea Brown literary Agency
WWW.andreabrownlit.com

Curtis Brown
WWW.curtisbrown.com

Pema Browne Ltd
WWW.pemabrowneltd.com

D4EO literary Agency
esubmissions only. No website listed
[email protected]
Mr Diforio - Contact

The jennifer Dechiara literary agency
WWW.jdlit.com

Sandra Dijkstra literary agency
formal submissions only. No website listed.
1155 camiona del mar,
PMB 515
Del Mar CA, 92014

Dupree/ Miller and associates Inc literary
formal submissions only. No website listed
100 highland Park village
ste 350
C/o submissions dept.
Dallas TX 75205


Ethan Ellenbery literary agency
WWW.ethanellenberg.com
up to 3 book/ outlines

The Fielding agency
WWW.fieldingagency.com
Whitney Lee- contact

Flannery Literary
No website listed
Children's only agency
1155 S. Washington ST.
STE 202
Naperville IL, 60540
Jennifer Flannery- contact

Barry Goldblatt literary LLC
No website listed- children's only
320 seventh Ave # 266
Brooklyn NY, 11215
Barry Goldblatt- contact

Blanche C. Gregory INC
WWW.bcliteraryagency.com.

Greystone literary agency
WWW.greystonelit.com
Michael Mancilla - contact

Heacock literary Agency
WWW.heacockliteraryagency.com
Catt La Baigue - contact

Hidden Valley group
WWW.hiddenvalleygroup.com
Jeff Jernigan - contact
Nancy Jernigan - contact.
check wesite for what each specializes in

Internationl transaction INC.
WWW.intltrans.com
WWW.itincusa.com
Peter Riva - contact

Kirchoff / Wohlberg INC
Authors representation group
NO website listed./ agents is children's only
866 United Nations Plaza #525
New York NY,10017
Lisa Pulitzer
Send entire MS

Edite Kroll literary Agency INC
No website listed
Children's only/ specializes in by women
Edite Kroll - contact
[email protected]

Mendel Media Group
WWWmendelmedia.com

Harold Ober Associates
No website listed
425 madison Ave
New York NY 10017
Craig Tenney - contact

Pippen Properties
Children's only
WWW.pippinproperties.com
Holly Mcgee - contact

Prospect Agency LLC
WWW.prospectagency.com
Emily Sylvan Kim - contact

Susan Schulman
WWW.schulmanagency.com

Serendipity literary Agency LLC
WWW.serendipitylit.com
Regina Brooks - contact

Stimola Literary Studio LLC
Children's only. No website listed
306 chase court
edgewater NJ 07020
[email protected]
Rosemary B Stimola - contact.
Excepts both queries

Scott Treimel NY
This agent is children's only. No website listed
434 Lafayette St
New York NY 10003
Mary Leigh Krasniewacz - contact

Wylie-Merrick Literary Agency
WWW.wylie-merrick.com
Sharene Martin - Contact

Wowie, you've been busy! Thanks!

Another thanks from me Dreams--this is great.

Wow! Thanks for this info DIR!

happy to help.
Now can anyone tell me which one will publish my work?...LOL