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Our work · Children's books

Children's Books We've Printed: Real Examples and Ideas

Every book on this page began as a story someone handed to us: a debut picture book, the fourth title in a series, a set of phonics readers for a classroom. Each case study shows the finished copies with the size, paper and binding we chose for them, so you can borrow a spec that already works.

Square 210mm picture books turn up more than any other single size, and most of these titles were printed on silk, which keeps illustration colour bright on the page. You will also find hardbacks with printed endpapers, landscape stories, colouring and activity books, and complete series.

Children's book printing and pricesFormats, real prices for 100 copies and a quick quote

Six picture books to start with

White square hardback cover of The Big Skate on the Ice Puddle, a coloured-pencil flower skating on ice, on a blue backdrop.

The Big Skate on the Ice Puddle: a hardback picture book, printed endpapers

Custom Size · SilkSquare hardback children's book cover with a painted polar bear face and the title Polar Bear and the UFO, on grey

Polar Bear and the UFO: a hardback children's book with printed endpapers

210x210mm · GlossSquare picture book cover of Snout's First Trip Out with two hedgehogs among ferns, flowers and blackberries.

Children's picture book Snout's First Trip Out, the hedgehog story that sold out

Custom Size · SilkFree picture books for young carers spread across a desk, each square cover framed by a round porthole

Children’s picture book Young Carers in Space, a free square booklet read on CBeebies

210x210mm · GlossSpikey and the Christmas Mouse square hardback cover with five silver-foiled snowflakes catching the light.

Christmas picture book Spikey and the Christmas Mouse, five snowflakes foiled in silver

210x210mm · SilkLandscape children’s picture book Nelson’s Dangerous Dive, a painted humpback whale and silver fish on the cover.

Children’s picture book Nelson’s Dangerous Dive, a true whale rescue in landscape

Custom Size · Gloss

More children's books we have printed

Showing 1 to 24 of 83, newest first

SizeAnyCustom Size (41)210x210mm (29)A5 (9)A4 (7)240x170mm (1)A1 (1)
PaperAnySilk (62)Uncoated (39)Gloss (21)Uncoated 100% Recycled (4)Evolution Uncoated (1)GF Smith (1)Keaykolour (1)Winter and Company material (1)
Square children's picture book cover with three bog imps hugging a giant yellow cheese on a swirling purple background

Children's picture book printing: Where's My Cheese, book four of the Irish Bog Imp Tales

210x210mm · SilkTwo copies of The Dragon Who Couldn’t Breathe Fire, a gloss laminated children’s picture book with a purple dragon cover.

Rhyming picture book The Dragon Who Couldn’t Breathe Fire, stapled at 240 x 170mm

240x170mm · GlossTwo PYP Agents school readers, When Germs Attack! and Weather Monsters, with gloss-laminated covers side by side.

Educational booklets PYP Agents for Extend Education, with a fold-out halfway map

Custom Size · GlossSquare cover of Helping Earth by Gemma Yu, with a waving girl in a polka-dot dress below the hand-lettered title.

Eco children’s book Helping Earth goes to print on FSC certified silk

210x210mm · SilkMonster Tea Party square hardback cover with an orange hand-lettered title above a giant mug on deep navy.

Square picture book Monster Tea Party, a 228mm hardback with orange endpapers

Custom Size · SilkSquare children’s picture book cover for We Used To Love Swimming, showing a sea-filled bin with an orca and turtle inside.

Children’s picture book We Used To Love Swimming, an ocean story with blues that glow

210x210mm · GlossSquare children's booklet cover for No More Germs: a smiling boy with soap and GERMS spelt in green germ characters.

Early years hygiene book No More Germs: small, square, gloss laminated and stapled

Custom Size · GlossSquare Christmas picture book cover of bog imps decorating a berry branch with a turkey under a painted blue sky

Christmas picture book Boggy Christmas, where Santa crash lands in an Irish bog

210x210mm · SilkLandscape picture book cover of Buddy’s Rainforest Rescue, an orange orangutan hanging from a branch among green leaves.

Children’s book Buddy’s Rainforest Rescue, a true deforestation story made gentle in print

Custom Size · GlossA5 children’s activity book cover: a pixie and kitten on a red toadstool under a crescent moon, retro red title.

Children's activity book Happy Days in Pixieland, on recycled paper for Made in Pixieland

A5 · SilkA5 personalised children's storybook cover with Cubetto the wooden robot and a boy on a raft below snowy mountains

Personalised children’s storybooks for Cubetto, with a new young hero in each copy

A5 · GlossLandscape picture book Excavator with a gloss laminated cover: a yellow digger on a beach under a hazy lime sun.

Construction vehicle picture book Excavator, from Norwegian quarry to sea wall in rhyme

Custom Size · SilkSquare paperback cover of The Little Mischiefs, a row of big eyed dolls under a paper banner on a floral rug.

Doll photography book The Little Mischiefs, Up to no good, from Dolly Treasures

Custom Size · UncoatedSquare children’s picture book cover of Troll’s Amazing Day, a troll and a golden goat walking through a dark forest.

Children’s picture book Troll’s Amazing Day, told through Ross Baker’s own questions

210x210mm · SilkSquare children’s hardback cover of a black and tan sausage dog inside a pink ring above a watercolour meadow

Children’s hardback Hey There Frankie, a sausage dog song in a 150mm square

Custom Size · SilkSquare colouring book cover for Inverness, half line drawing and half coloured, under an orange Morag and Hamish banner

Children’s colouring book The Incredible Inverness, stapled flat on 170gsm uncoated

210x210mm · UncoatedA4 landscape picture book cover with a watercolour palm, a red spotted dinosaur and a flowing script title

Watercolour picture book The Tale of the Hoppitysaurus, printed A4 landscape

A4 · GlossCover of A Sports Car Called Morgan, a square children’s book with a smiling red roadster drawn in coloured pencil.

Children’s book A Sports Car Called Morgan, drawn in pencil by one of Morgan’s own

210x210mm · SilkSquare picture book cover of a masked pixie in a gold crown leading fairytale villains down a yellow brick road

Picture book Titch Magee: Fairytale Thief and the pixie who keeps coming back

Grey square hardback cover of The Winter Kid, a small boy in a cap and scarf standing alone in falling snow beneath the title

The Winter Kid: a brilliant short-run 210×210mm hardback picture book

210x210mmDinosaur edition of My Friends, a 210×210mm hardback friendship keepsake book, laminated cover angled on a blue backdrop.

My Friends: a 210×210mm hardback keepsake book with printed endpapers

210x210mm · SilkChildren's Educational Reading Book Cover

Educational Reading Book Printing Excellence in Rose Loses Her Nose

Custom Size · Silkchildrens-book-printing

A Glossy Adventure in Children's Book printing - Arthur and the Elephant

A4 · GlossChildren Reading What Football Job Can You Do

Educational Children's Book Printing: 'What Football Job Can You Do?' ⚽

Custom Size · Silk

Plan your own picture book

Our guides walk through the choices these authors made: size, paper, binding, illustration and cost.

Sizes, paper and layout for picture booksWhy 32 pages and 210mm square suit most picture books, with UK prices for 100 copies.Binding styles, shown on real booksOur video guide to the bindings we use for children's books.What publishing a children's book costsA breakdown of the costs, with tips for keeping them down.Self-publish a children's book, step by stepIllustration, formatting, printing and marketing, in the order you'll need them.Brief an illustratorA template to copy before you approach a designer or illustrator.From first idea to finished bookWriting, design, pricing and print ready artwork in one guide.

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