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
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:
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
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!