Let young minds drink the potion.

Curiouser & Curiouser is a press for innovative children’s, early reader, tweener, middle-grade, early adult, and young-adult books (mostly fiction) that lets young minds explore the greater world around them. This imprint tells diverse, sometimes difficult, stories for the betterment of social change, learning cultural differences, and understanding a world of history beyond our own backyards. Titles begin with easy books aimed at 5-to-7-year-olds and go up to young-adult novels aimed at 15-to-18-year-olds.

New & Upcoming Releases

We’re a brand new press and don’t have any new or upcoming releases yet, but they will appear here as soon as we have them! Sign up on our mailing list, and stay tuned!

Fall Down the Rabbit Hole

✎… Early Readers 5-7
✎… Chapter Books 6-9
✎… Middle Grade 8-12
✎… Early Young Adult 12-15
✎… Late Young Adult 15-18


✎… Dyslexic / Reading Impaired

✎… LGBTQUIA2+
✎… Racism
✎… Trauma
✎… Abuse
✎… Adoption / Fostering
✎… Disabilities
✎… Bullying

✎… General / Realistic / Contemporary
✎… Fantasy
✎… Science Fiction
✎… Horror
✎… Historical
✎… Mystery / Suspense
✎… Light Romance
✎… Action / Adventure
✎… Nonfiction
✎… Poetry
✎… Play Scripts

Teachers, Daycares,
Educators, & Kids’ Book Clubs!

We’re a brand new press and don’t have any books yet, but when we do, we’ll have educator kits for each title, including discussion questions, activities, coloring pages, printables, bookmarks, and more. Check back in this section for news about educator kits, and join our educator mailing lists for teaching ideas year-round.

News

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Submissions

Curiouser & Curiouser accepts submissions year-round of early reader through young-adult books only, although those definitions can be broad. We do not publish baby books, board books, children’s picture books, or adult books. We will do our best to respond within a few weeks, but please don’t follow up excessively; reading submissions takes a lot of time. Authors: don’t submit via email; our inbox is for correspondence only. Agents: you may send pitches via email.

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Code of Conduct: Curiouser & Curiouser expects its authors and staff to be kind literary citizens within the industry and to conduct themselves with decency in the public sphere, which includes social-media profiles. We reserve the right to sever ties and contracts with authors or staff who target or harass others; use racist, homophobic, xenophobic, ableist, or otherwise derogatory remarks toward others in public media; publish external material that is harmful to others; or otherwise conduct themselves in a way that would reflect poorly on our press. Literary citizenship is important to us, and the literary community is small and tight-knit. We all need one another, and we rise by lifting others.

Distribution, Sales, & ARCs

Our books can be ordered and shelved globally in paperback, ebook, and audiobook (if applicable) anywhere books are borrowed or sold. They are available via all major online retailers, including Amazon, Kindle, Nook, Kobo, eBooks.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Waterstones, and Blackwell’s; from your favorite bookstore, library, or university via Ingram, OverDrive, Hoopla, Baker & Taylor, and Bookshop; to the industry via Edelweiss+ (requires free login to access), and in-person at bookfairs and author events around the United States.

Booksellers: please order through Ingram at 55% discount with returns accepted and sign up on our bookstore list if you want tips for shelving, displaying, and promoting our books and authors around certain holidays, kids’ events, or local interests.

Industry buyers and rights acquirers: please email us for any information you need.

Reviewers: ARCs and review materials are available to anyone interested in reviewing or promoting one of our titles; please email for review copies and sign up on our publicity list to be notified when new ARCs are available to promoters.

Educators: Email us to get a free login for our educator portal to buy tax-exempt wholesale bulk titles for your classroom, or you can order through Ingram at 55% discount. Discounts through the educator portal are for bulk classroom purchases only, not for individual copies. There are no returns on classroom materials unless a product is defective. Exam copies are available to teachers via Edelweiss+ (requires free login to access). Please sign up on our educator email lists to be notified of teaching ideas and activity kits that correspond with certain holidays, kids’ events, or local interests.

Branding: Our colors are hex #A0417C (dark magenta), #C27BA0 (light magenta), #EDAFCE (medium pink), #3B7D84 (dark teal), #3C3D41 (charcoal), #D0CECC (light gray). Our high-res full logo can be downloaded here, and our circle icon logo can be downloaded here.

Author & Press Events

*This calendar contains events for all of Flatiron Foothills Publications, LLC’s imprints. Many of the events are not for children. Please read the individual descriptions carefully.

Masthead

Sarah Van Horn is a Boulder native and the executive editor of Curiouser & Curiouser. She wants to bring back the challenging, undiluted young-readers’ book style from the 70s through early 90s, and is looking for the next Avi, Harper Lee, Cynthia Voigt, Judy Blume, Beverly Clearly, Gary Paulsen, Elizabeth George Speare, Bette Greene, Scott O’Dell, Katherine Paterson, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jack London, L. M. Montgomery, and Shel Silverstein. She devours series in the old-style vein of Goosebumps, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Boxcar Children, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley, and Choose Your Own Adventure.