Professional Studies: Publishing

Publishing company research

I decided to research children's book publishing because is the part of the industry that i am most interested in. I started off with looking at walker books, I remember loving all of the books from this publishing company when i was little so that seemed like a good place to start.



Walker books is a 30 year old book publishing house that creates children's books. It was created by Sebastian Walker in 1978. He sadly died 12 years later. The company started off small with only 18 books but has grew significantly since then and now publishes up to 200 books per year.

The chairman of walker books is David Lloyd. The people who work for Walker consists of a large group of writers and illustrators that all work on different books. Some work together and some create both  the story and the images.

To get a job working for walker books the usual route is to send in a CV and a portfolio of work but it is usually hard to get noticed this way because of the large quantities of people that send in their work each day. A better way to get noticed would be to network with people in and linked to the company. A good way to do this would be to add the company on a social networking site such as twitter and tag them in your illustration posts.