About Querido Children’s Books
About Querido Children’s Books
Querido has been publishing children’s books since 1971, specializing in picture books and quality fiction for all age groups. Querido publishes 50 to 60 new children’s books yearly, mostly by Dutch and Flemish authors (75% of the books on the list were written in Dutch). Among them are many award winning and classic writers and illustrators, like Annie M.G. Schmidt, Guus Kuijer, Toon Tellegen, Bart Moeyaert, Simon van der Geest, Annet Schaap, Marit Törnqvist, Peter Van den Ende, Edward van de Vendel and Anna Woltz. Foreign authors and illustrators whose work has recently been published by Querido are Timothée de Fombelle, Cornelia Funke, Nicola Yoon, Shaun Tan, M.G. Leonard, Rebecca Stead, R.J. Palacio and Marianne Dubuc.
About Querido
Dutch bookseller Emanuel Querido had been publishing books since 1903, but did not found his publishing house until 1915. Throughout the years, Querido has specialized in high-quality Dutch fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Hella S. Haasse, Thomas Rosenboom, Toon Tellegen, Annejet van der Zijl, Frank Westerman and A.f.Th. van der Heijden are only a few of the company’s award-winning authors. Recently, Querido’s younger authors, such as Marente de Moor and Jamal Ouariachi, have become very successful. Translations of foreign literature have been added to Querido’s list as well. As such, Sebastian Barry, Elfriede Jelinek, Wieslaw Mysliwski, Daniel Kehlmann, Patrick Modiano, Caleb Azumah Nelson, John Banville, James Wood and Marlene van Niekerk have been published by the company.
Querido Levine our partner in the US
We are very proud that Querido Levine is our partner in the US. Levine Querido offers translations of books published originally by Querido Children’s Books.
Volt Publishers
Since 2018 Volt Children´s Books is part of Singel Publishers.
Volt Children's Books offers a wide selection of children's books, from funny and sweet picture books to exciting self-reading books and touching young adults. Volt Children's Books offers popular Dutch authors such as Fiep Westendorp, Francine Oomen, Erik Scherder and Olav Mol, as well as foreign authors such as Jacqueline Woodson, Rachael Lippincott and Zanib Mian.