100+ Places to Market Your Children’s Fiction Book

A love for reading manifests itself early and becomes cultivated through the reading of excellent books geared for children. Children’s books are important because they serve as a great start for kids to learn a lot of things, from how to read to how to think critically and deeply about the books they’ve just read. Coupled with exciting adventures, relatable characters, wonderfully drawn pictures and a lot of other interesting things that captures kids’ attentions, children’s books are the best kind of headstart to help the child develop a love for learning and reading.

Below are some links where you can market your children’s book, as well as useful resources for the children’s fiction writer!

Blogs and Websites

• Teaching Young Writers
• Randomly Reading*
• Good Books for Young Souls
• Here Wee Read
• Aslan’s Library
• Kid Lit Geek*
• Challenging the Bookworm
• Mundie Kids*
• Kids’ Book Review*
• Kid’s Book Blog
• This Kid Reviews Books
• Mother Daughter Book Reviews*
• Delightful Children’s Books
• Children’s Books on About
• Everything Children’s Literature
• Picture Book House
• Lit for Kids
• Middle Grade Mafioso
• March House Books Blog
• Guys Lit Wire
• Books That Heal Kids
• That’s What I Want My Child to Read
• Critical Children’s Lit
• Cool Kids Read
• The Cozy Reader
• Read Kiddo Read
• Growing Book by Book
• Guys Read
• Barefoot Books Blog
• Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site
• Children’s Literature
• Kid Literature Authors
• Kid Lit Frenzy
• Kid Lit Reviews*
• KidLit.com
• Inkygirl
• Kid Lit North
• Children’s Literature Assembly
• Bookalicious
• RovingFiddlehead KidLit
• KidLit History
• Kick-Butt Kidlit
• Henry Herz
• DC Children’s Literature Book Club
• Kidlit Rambles
• Nancy Keane’s Children’s Literature Webpage
• Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

*Primarily a book review site

Facebook Groups

• The Reading Raccoons
• KidLit TV
• ACFW Children’s Fiction Group
• Children Fictional Christian Stories

Communities and Forums

General:

• Children’s Books Goodreads
• Young Writers Goodreads
• Great Middle Grade Reads
• Children’s Book Authors/Illustrators
• KidLit Group Goodreads
• Fun-tastic Children’s Books
• My Kid is a Bookworm Goodreads
• Upper Elementary Book Review
• Children’s Book Writers Network Goodreads
• Writing For Kids on AbsoluteWrite
• SCBWI’s Message and Chat Board
• Children’s Fiction General Discussion Forum
• Blog Tours for Readers Goodreads
• Gifted Children and Adults
• Juvenile Fiction Forum on Amazon
• Parents Reading Book Club on Goodreads
• The Newbery Award and Honor Book Club Goodreads
• Children’s Book Writers Network
• The Neverlanders Goodreads
• Enid Blyton Classic Children’s Books Goodreads
• British Home Children Book Club Goodreads
• Picture Books Goodreads
• The Pre-School Parent’s Book Club Goodreads
• Raising Creative Thinkers Goodreads

Series-specific:

• TinTin Books Goodreads
• The Land of Stories Group Goodreads
• Obsessed With Harry Potter Goodreads

Meet-ups, Events, and Conferences

• The Tucson Writers Workshop and Meetup Group
• Coffee House Writers Group – San Dimas
• Write Together London
• Children’s Fiction Writing Meetups in London
• The Self-Publishing Scoop
• Activities for Children Meetup
• Kid Lit Nashville
• Children’s Book Authors Writing and Social Club
• Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators of Philadelphia
• The Federation of Children’s Book Groups

Prizes and Giveaways

• Disability in KidLit Giveaways
• Children’s Book Giveaways on Goodreads

Podcasts

• Children’s Book Radio
• Kid Litosphere Central
• Kid Lit Navigator Podcasts
• SparkleStories
• Storynory
• Barefoot Books
• The Picturebooking Podcast
• Just One More Book

Top Books

• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Little Prince by Antoine de-Saint Exupery
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Top Authors

• J.K. Rowling
• Louis Sachar
• Lois Lowry
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Lewis Carroll
• Antoine de-Saint Exupery
• Kate DiCamillo
• Roald Dahl
• L. Frank Baum
• Lloyd Alexander
• C.S. Lewis
• Enid Blyton

Do you know of other links where authors can market their children’s fiction book? Let us know in the comments!