OUR IMPRINTS
Imprint Name Aurum
Imprint Description

Aurum is Quarto’s narrative nonfiction imprint, home to great writing and compelling storytelling across a wide range of interests, life experiences, and expertise. Aurum publishes memoir, biography, polemic, food, feminism, history, sport, science, nature, and travel writing. Its award-winning books are relished in leisure, recommended to friends, and discussed in book clubs.

Imprint Name Design Eye
Imprint Description Always exciting, always creative, Design Eye make clever books for children to understand what’s under the surface of our beautiful, complex world. Collaborating with expert authors and outstanding illustrators, our list spans novelty and high-interest STEAM and pop-culture topics; gift, activity, reference and picture books. We specialise in paper-engineering, kits and components. Design Eye is a B2B, coedition imprint, selling global rights to renowned publishers.
Imprint Name Frances Lincoln
Imprint Description

Frances Lincoln publishes beautifully designed books written by expert authors. The imprint’s highly regarded, long-established list includes gardening titles featuring a host of well-known names, as well as the much-loved walking guides by Alfred Wainwright. Frances Lincoln also creates beautiful stationery, including its best-selling series of products designed with the Royal Horticultural Society. Other notable areas of interest include books on the history of Britain and London and an ever-growing list of innovative titles on art and culture.

Imprint Name Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Imprint Description

Established in 1983, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books publishes high-quality picture books, gift titles, poetry and voice-led non-fiction that celebrates the richness and diversity of our world today. Boasting the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series created by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara, award-winning picture books from David Litchfield, Bethan Stevens, Joseph Coelho, The Fan Brothers, and many others, as well as The Story Orchestra gift books and the New York Times bestseller This Book Is Anti-Racist, we are also the home of First Editions, dedicated to debut picture-book talent. .

Imprint Name Happy Yak
Imprint Description

Happy Yak is Quarto’s new fun and funny imprint, launched in 2021. Our books make children smile, giggle and laugh out loud! We publish imaginative preschool novelty and board books, playful picture books and uproarious fact-packed non-fiction titles. All our books burst with Happy Yak’s upbeat sense of fun. Look out for our eye-catching design, contemporary illustration style and colours that pop..

Imprint Name Iqon Editions
Imprint Description

Iqon Editions was created in 2003 as a boutique imprint specializing in innovative approaches to presenting highly illustrated cultural reference content. Notable successes include the ...isms series of books, which have been published in more than 25 languages, and the Art Lovers City Guides.

Imprint Name Ivy Kids
Imprint Description

Ivy Kids brings you beautiful, eye-catching books for eco-conscious consumers. We publish joyful stories and non-fiction, predominantly about nature and the environment that look to the future with positivity and allay eco-anxieties. Our planet-friendly mission is to endeavour, wherever possible, to print locally to where our books will be sold, on post-consumer recycled paper and employ carbon offsetting methods to reduce our environmental footprint. We are a fledgling imprint taking huge strides in creating a new vision for sustainable publishing. .

Imprint Name Ivy Press
Imprint Description

Ivy Press publishes books that take innovative approaches to the subjects that you want to read about. The imprint’s books are written by experts in their fields and designed to the very highest standards. Ivy Press titles will inspire you, show you how to make things, make your mouth water, inform you, expand your mind, and stimulate you, however much you already know. Its best-selling nonfiction list includes titles on natural history, general reference, popular science, art, craft, design, and the internationally acclaimed 30-Second series, which has been translated into 30 languages.

Imprint Name Kaddo
Imprint Description Kaddo is Quarto’s gift imprint, publishing puzzles, games, card decks and stationery. Our gifts encourage both adults and children to learn, play and explore the world in new, fun ways through our innovative formats and meaningful gameplay. Kaddo produces gifts that surprise and delight, engaging audiences of all ages.
Imprint Name Leaping Hare Press
Imprint Description

Leaping Hare Press creates beautiful books to inspire and empower readers to translate ethical and spiritual values into practical, meaningful life choices. From embracing a zero-waste mindset, to consciously walking along a busy sidewalk, the imprint presents creative, simple steps to help us engage with each other and the natural world. Penned by heart-led, expert authors, its mindful books embrace community spirit and explore ecological principles in a positive way—delivering that feel-good factor too.

Imprint Name Quarto Publishing
Imprint Description

Quarto Publishing—the original co-edition list in The Quarto Group—produces illustrated books with a well-deserved reputation for style and quality. The focus of its list is art instruction and crafts, although Quarto publishes into many other illustrated categories, including cookery, music, history, gardening, lifestyle, and reference. Quarto books are licensed all over the world, with best-selling titles available in more than 20 languages. Quarto Press is also a sub-imprint of this imprint.

Imprint Name small world creations
Imprint Description

Valued for its innovation and imagination, small world specializes in multilingual co-editions of the imprint’s own titles, but its formats can also be translated into licensed character or publishers’ own art versions, tailoring its creativity to suit many markets. From bobbly board books, through squirty bath books, to cute and cuddly cloth books, small world titles engage the senses and stimulate learning through play. Great books for little people!

Imprint Name The Bright Press
Imprint Description

Based in Brighton, The Bright Press combines the best of Quarto’s former Quintet, Quid, Global, and RotoVision imprints. Their dynamic creative team is dedicated to producing beautiful books that will inspire a wide range of enthusiasts, from beer lovers and science geeks to gardeners and artists.

Imprint Name White Lion Publishing
Imprint Description

The mission of White Lion Publishing is to help readers understand and enjoy the world around them through expert writing, visually striking design, and innovative formats. The imprint publishes across several core nonfiction categories—including self-care, lifestyle, popular culture, travel, issues and activism, and food and drink—to create beautiful books that inspire, engage, and entertain.

Imprint Name Wide Eyed Editions
Imprint Description

Wide Eyed Editions is the home of illustrated non-fiction that opens eyes to a whole wide world of wonder. Our books are expertly written with well-crafted, engaging text, extraordinary illustration, innovative novelty elements, and outstanding design with beautiful, tactile cover finishes. We bring a fresh and contemporary eye to traditional non-fiction topics – on everything from art to armchair travel – crafting treasured titles that will be enjoyed by the whole family.

Imprint Name words & pictures
Imprint Description

Words & Pictures: two little words that, together, mean a lot. We provide what’s on the tin – literally: words, and pictures. It doesn’t get more accessible than that! Our books appeal to all sorts of kids, from fact-fans and visual learners for gentle education, to those who are tuned into popular culture, or excited to explore the world around them through engaging and easily digestible books. We also publish profile- or partnership-led books that bring people and brands closer to the children who love them.

Imprint Name becker&mayer! books
Imprint Description becker&mayer! books specializes in craft kits and humorous, topical, and culturally significant trade books. The imprint’s craft kits are unique, on trend, and written with a distinct voice that makes them approachable from all skills levels. Its books are recognized for their innovative formats that feature humor, fan-centric content, culturally relevant topics, and the hottest licenses—sometimes all in one book!
Imprint Name becker&mayer! kids
Imprint Description

becker&mayer! kids publishes engaging books and craft kits for children on humorous, culturally significant, and trending topics, including popular licensed content. The imprint’s craft kits combine on-trend subjects with exciting activities that are both fun and educational. Its books are distinguished by their innovative formats that invite interaction and boost comprehension, with an element of whimsical and irreverent fun.

Imprint Name Chartwell Books
Imprint Description Chartwell Books is dedicated to creating beautifully designed illustrated books for everyone. Aspirational yet accessible, each book conveys a high perceived value. The imprint brings style and a fresh voice to every book it publishes, presenting on-trend and universal titles in categories as diverse as spirituality, health and wellness, history, military, reference, cooking, lifestyle, and inspirational. With a list that includes a range of guided journals and book-plus gifts and sets, Chartwell titles are highly giftable as well as perfect for any self-purchase.
Imprint Name Cool Springs Press
Imprint Description

Cool Springs Press is a leading publisher of step-by-step how-to books for both DIY gardening and home improvement. With a distinguished list of general, regional, and national gardening titles, as well as illustrated step-by-step books that represent the standard of home DIY publishing, Cool Springs can proudly offer a beautiful, expertly written book to fit just about any home or garden project you can imagine.

Imprint Name Epic Ink
Imprint Description

Each year, Epic Ink publishes a select handful of deluxe, topical, highly coveted books in unique, customized formats showcasing the hottest properties in movies, music, TV, comics, and pop culture.

Imprint Name Fair Winds Press
Imprint Description

Fair Winds Press offers readers authoritative and accessible guidance for living a healthy life, both physically and spiritually. Its books cover a range of practical categories, including nutrition and cooking, fitness, parenting, beauty, mental and spiritual health, treating sickness, and using new medicine.

Imprint Name Harvard Common Press
Imprint Description

Harvard Common Press provides readers with accessible, engaging content in the culinary, parenting, and lifestyle arenas. Working with topic experts, the imprint strives to produce award-winning content that capitalizes on both established and developing trends, and that has an enduring place on consumer bookshelves.

Imprint Name Motorbooks
Imprint Description

This distinguished imprint currently publishes books authored and created by the world’s leading transportation writers and photographers, as well as many different titles officially licensed with major partners such as Harley-Davidson, Chevrolet, Ford, and Chrysler, in addition to magazines such as Hot Rod and Cycle World.

Imprint Name Quarry Books
Imprint Description

Quarry Books was started in 1997 to extend Rockport Publishers’ business to a non-professional audience. Dedicated to providing instruction and inspiration to creative makers everywhere, Quarry Books offers authoritative, beautifully designed and illustrated inspiration and reference books for a wide range of enthusiasts, including artists, illustrators, crafters, cooks, parents, and educators on subjects ranging from beekeeping and bread making to urban sketching and science activities for kids.

Imprint Name Rock Point
Imprint Description

Rock Point publishes creative products, including gift books, kits, and calendars. Whether it’s learning simple ways to live an eco-friendly lifestyle, manifesting your intentions with a darling deck of kawaii tarot cards, or finding calm in a beautiful journal, Rock Point delivers content in an inspired and innovative way through a range of formats with broad appeal.

Imprint Name Rockport Publishing
Imprint Description

Rockport Publishers was founded in 1984 and became part of the Quarto Group six years later. For the latest in design industry trends or graphic art reference, look to Rockport Publishers. Rockport’s books present the best in design work from around the world and bring readers inside the world’s most talented design and art studios to see how the work gets done and the inspiration that lies behind each finished piece.

Imprint Name Voyageur Press
Imprint Description

Voyageur Press, a publisher with a deep and storied history in the American Upper Midwest, publishes best-selling books in five key areas: self-sufficiency, beer and spirits, regional American cooking, popular science, and music. This diversity is Voyageur’s strength, and its titles enrich and educate its readers on such varied subjects as raising and keeping chickens, exploring the rise of the craft beer movement in America, and learning about the history and techniques behind some of America’s up-and-coming chefs.

Imprint Name Walter Foster Jr.
Imprint Description

Walter Foster Jr. publishes fun and imaginative books and kits for children of all ages. Encouraging learning and exploring, Walter Foster Jr. titles cover a wide range of subjects, including art, edutainment, history, craft, nature, preschool concepts, and more. As a creator of content for children and families, Walter Foster Jr. strives to bring out that childlike wonderment in all of us and inspire lifelong interests.

Imprint Name Walter Foster Publishing
Imprint Description

Walter Foster Publishing is one of the most recognized names in art instruction. The timeless drawing and painting techniques found in Walter Foster titles have helped people around the world discover their artistic talents. From traditional pencil sketching and acrylic, oil, and watercolor painting to mixed media, hand lettering, and DIY crafting—Walter Foster Publishing has developed a full library of titles for the modern artist.

Imprint Name Wellfleet Press
Imprint Description

Wellfleet Press publishes illustrated reference books for the price-conscious consumer. Wellfleet focuses primarily on well-crafted and researched home reference; entertainment; faith; and mind, body, and spirit titles. The imprint offers customers a unique combination of both completely original content as well as illustrated editions of classics texts.

Imprint Name Aurum
Imprint Description

Aurum is Quarto’s narrative nonfiction imprint, home to great writing and compelling storytelling across a wide range of interests, life experiences, and expertise. Aurum publishes memoir, biography, polemic, food, feminism, history, sport, science, nature, and travel writing. Its award-winning books are relished in leisure, recommended to friends, and discussed in book clubs.

Imprint Name becker&mayer! books
Imprint Description becker&mayer! books specializes in craft kits and humorous, topical, and culturally significant trade books. The imprint’s craft kits are unique, on trend, and written with a distinct voice that makes them approachable from all skills levels. Its books are recognized for their innovative formats that feature humor, fan-centric content, culturally relevant topics, and the hottest licenses—sometimes all in one book!
Imprint Name becker&mayer! kids
Imprint Description

becker&mayer! kids publishes engaging books and craft kits for children on humorous, culturally significant, and trending topics, including popular licensed content. The imprint’s craft kits combine on-trend subjects with exciting activities that are both fun and educational. Its books are distinguished by their innovative formats that invite interaction and boost comprehension, with an element of whimsical and irreverent fun.

Imprint Name Chartwell Books
Imprint Description Chartwell Books is dedicated to creating beautifully designed illustrated books for everyone. Aspirational yet accessible, each book conveys a high perceived value. The imprint brings style and a fresh voice to every book it publishes, presenting on-trend and universal titles in categories as diverse as spirituality, health and wellness, history, military, reference, cooking, lifestyle, and inspirational. With a list that includes a range of guided journals and book-plus gifts and sets, Chartwell titles are highly giftable as well as perfect for any self-purchase.
Imprint Name Cool Springs Press
Imprint Description

Cool Springs Press is a leading publisher of step-by-step how-to books for both DIY gardening and home improvement. With a distinguished list of general, regional, and national gardening titles, as well as illustrated step-by-step books that represent the standard of home DIY publishing, Cool Springs can proudly offer a beautiful, expertly written book to fit just about any home or garden project you can imagine.

Imprint Name Design Eye
Imprint Description Always exciting, always creative, Design Eye make clever books for children to understand what’s under the surface of our beautiful, complex world. Collaborating with expert authors and outstanding illustrators, our list spans novelty and high-interest STEAM and pop-culture topics; gift, activity, reference and picture books. We specialise in paper-engineering, kits and components. Design Eye is a B2B, coedition imprint, selling global rights to renowned publishers.
Imprint Name Epic Ink
Imprint Description

Each year, Epic Ink publishes a select handful of deluxe, topical, highly coveted books in unique, customized formats showcasing the hottest properties in movies, music, TV, comics, and pop culture.

Imprint Name Fair Winds Press
Imprint Description

Fair Winds Press offers readers authoritative and accessible guidance for living a healthy life, both physically and spiritually. Its books cover a range of practical categories, including nutrition and cooking, fitness, parenting, beauty, mental and spiritual health, treating sickness, and using new medicine.

Imprint Name Frances Lincoln
Imprint Description

Frances Lincoln publishes beautifully designed books written by expert authors. The imprint’s highly regarded, long-established list includes gardening titles featuring a host of well-known names, as well as the much-loved walking guides by Alfred Wainwright. Frances Lincoln also creates beautiful stationery, including its best-selling series of products designed with the Royal Horticultural Society. Other notable areas of interest include books on the history of Britain and London and an ever-growing list of innovative titles on art and culture.

Imprint Name Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Imprint Description

Established in 1983, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books publishes high-quality picture books, gift titles, poetry and voice-led non-fiction that celebrates the richness and diversity of our world today. Boasting the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series created by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara, award-winning picture books from David Litchfield, Bethan Stevens, Joseph Coelho, The Fan Brothers, and many others, as well as The Story Orchestra gift books and the New York Times bestseller This Book Is Anti-Racist, we are also the home of First Editions, dedicated to debut picture-book talent. .

Imprint Name Happy Yak
Imprint Description

Happy Yak is Quarto’s new fun and funny imprint, launched in 2021. Our books make children smile, giggle and laugh out loud! We publish imaginative preschool novelty and board books, playful picture books and uproarious fact-packed non-fiction titles. All our books burst with Happy Yak’s upbeat sense of fun. Look out for our eye-catching design, contemporary illustration style and colours that pop..

Imprint Name Harvard Common Press
Imprint Description

Harvard Common Press provides readers with accessible, engaging content in the culinary, parenting, and lifestyle arenas. Working with topic experts, the imprint strives to produce award-winning content that capitalizes on both established and developing trends, and that has an enduring place on consumer bookshelves.

Imprint Name Iqon Editions
Imprint Description

Iqon Editions was created in 2003 as a boutique imprint specializing in innovative approaches to presenting highly illustrated cultural reference content. Notable successes include the ...isms series of books, which have been published in more than 25 languages, and the Art Lovers City Guides.

Imprint Name Ivy Kids
Imprint Description

Ivy Kids brings you beautiful, eye-catching books for eco-conscious consumers. We publish joyful stories and non-fiction, predominantly about nature and the environment that look to the future with positivity and allay eco-anxieties. Our planet-friendly mission is to endeavour, wherever possible, to print locally to where our books will be sold, on post-consumer recycled paper and employ carbon offsetting methods to reduce our environmental footprint. We are a fledgling imprint taking huge strides in creating a new vision for sustainable publishing. .

Imprint Name Ivy Press
Imprint Description

Ivy Press publishes books that take innovative approaches to the subjects that you want to read about. The imprint’s books are written by experts in their fields and designed to the very highest standards. Ivy Press titles will inspire you, show you how to make things, make your mouth water, inform you, expand your mind, and stimulate you, however much you already know. Its best-selling nonfiction list includes titles on natural history, general reference, popular science, art, craft, design, and the internationally acclaimed 30-Second series, which has been translated into 30 languages.

Imprint Name Kaddo
Imprint Description Kaddo is Quarto’s gift imprint, publishing puzzles, games, card decks and stationery. Our gifts encourage both adults and children to learn, play and explore the world in new, fun ways through our innovative formats and meaningful gameplay. Kaddo produces gifts that surprise and delight, engaging audiences of all ages.
Imprint Name Leaping Hare Press
Imprint Description

Leaping Hare Press creates beautiful books to inspire and empower readers to translate ethical and spiritual values into practical, meaningful life choices. From embracing a zero-waste mindset, to consciously walking along a busy sidewalk, the imprint presents creative, simple steps to help us engage with each other and the natural world. Penned by heart-led, expert authors, its mindful books embrace community spirit and explore ecological principles in a positive way—delivering that feel-good factor too.

Imprint Name Motorbooks
Imprint Description

This distinguished imprint currently publishes books authored and created by the world’s leading transportation writers and photographers, as well as many different titles officially licensed with major partners such as Harley-Davidson, Chevrolet, Ford, and Chrysler, in addition to magazines such as Hot Rod and Cycle World.

Imprint Name Quarry Books
Imprint Description

Quarry Books was started in 1997 to extend Rockport Publishers’ business to a non-professional audience. Dedicated to providing instruction and inspiration to creative makers everywhere, Quarry Books offers authoritative, beautifully designed and illustrated inspiration and reference books for a wide range of enthusiasts, including artists, illustrators, crafters, cooks, parents, and educators on subjects ranging from beekeeping and bread making to urban sketching and science activities for kids.

Imprint Name Quarto Publishing
Imprint Description

Quarto Publishing—the original co-edition list in The Quarto Group—produces illustrated books with a well-deserved reputation for style and quality. The focus of its list is art instruction and crafts, although Quarto publishes into many other illustrated categories, including cookery, music, history, gardening, lifestyle, and reference. Quarto books are licensed all over the world, with best-selling titles available in more than 20 languages. Quarto Press is also a sub-imprint of this imprint.

Imprint Name Rock Point
Imprint Description

Rock Point publishes creative products, including gift books, kits, and calendars. Whether it’s learning simple ways to live an eco-friendly lifestyle, manifesting your intentions with a darling deck of kawaii tarot cards, or finding calm in a beautiful journal, Rock Point delivers content in an inspired and innovative way through a range of formats with broad appeal.

Imprint Name Rockport Publishing
Imprint Description

Rockport Publishers was founded in 1984 and became part of the Quarto Group six years later. For the latest in design industry trends or graphic art reference, look to Rockport Publishers. Rockport’s books present the best in design work from around the world and bring readers inside the world’s most talented design and art studios to see how the work gets done and the inspiration that lies behind each finished piece.

Imprint Name small world creations
Imprint Description

Valued for its innovation and imagination, small world specializes in multilingual co-editions of the imprint’s own titles, but its formats can also be translated into licensed character or publishers’ own art versions, tailoring its creativity to suit many markets. From bobbly board books, through squirty bath books, to cute and cuddly cloth books, small world titles engage the senses and stimulate learning through play. Great books for little people!

Imprint Name The Bright Press
Imprint Description

Based in Brighton, The Bright Press combines the best of Quarto’s former Quintet, Quid, Global, and RotoVision imprints. Their dynamic creative team is dedicated to producing beautiful books that will inspire a wide range of enthusiasts, from beer lovers and science geeks to gardeners and artists.

Imprint Name Voyageur Press
Imprint Description

Voyageur Press, a publisher with a deep and storied history in the American Upper Midwest, publishes best-selling books in five key areas: self-sufficiency, beer and spirits, regional American cooking, popular science, and music. This diversity is Voyageur’s strength, and its titles enrich and educate its readers on such varied subjects as raising and keeping chickens, exploring the rise of the craft beer movement in America, and learning about the history and techniques behind some of America’s up-and-coming chefs.

Imprint Name Walter Foster Jr.
Imprint Description

Walter Foster Jr. publishes fun and imaginative books and kits for children of all ages. Encouraging learning and exploring, Walter Foster Jr. titles cover a wide range of subjects, including art, edutainment, history, craft, nature, preschool concepts, and more. As a creator of content for children and families, Walter Foster Jr. strives to bring out that childlike wonderment in all of us and inspire lifelong interests.

Imprint Name Walter Foster Publishing
Imprint Description

Walter Foster Publishing is one of the most recognized names in art instruction. The timeless drawing and painting techniques found in Walter Foster titles have helped people around the world discover their artistic talents. From traditional pencil sketching and acrylic, oil, and watercolor painting to mixed media, hand lettering, and DIY crafting—Walter Foster Publishing has developed a full library of titles for the modern artist.

Imprint Name Wellfleet Press
Imprint Description

Wellfleet Press publishes illustrated reference books for the price-conscious consumer. Wellfleet focuses primarily on well-crafted and researched home reference; entertainment; faith; and mind, body, and spirit titles. The imprint offers customers a unique combination of both completely original content as well as illustrated editions of classics texts.

Imprint Name White Lion Publishing
Imprint Description

The mission of White Lion Publishing is to help readers understand and enjoy the world around them through expert writing, visually striking design, and innovative formats. The imprint publishes across several core nonfiction categories—including self-care, lifestyle, popular culture, travel, issues and activism, and food and drink—to create beautiful books that inspire, engage, and entertain.

Imprint Name Wide Eyed Editions
Imprint Description

Wide Eyed Editions is the home of illustrated non-fiction that opens eyes to a whole wide world of wonder. Our books are expertly written with well-crafted, engaging text, extraordinary illustration, innovative novelty elements, and outstanding design with beautiful, tactile cover finishes. We bring a fresh and contemporary eye to traditional non-fiction topics – on everything from art to armchair travel – crafting treasured titles that will be enjoyed by the whole family.

Imprint Name words & pictures
Imprint Description

Words & Pictures: two little words that, together, mean a lot. We provide what’s on the tin – literally: words, and pictures. It doesn’t get more accessible than that! Our books appeal to all sorts of kids, from fact-fans and visual learners for gentle education, to those who are tuned into popular culture, or excited to explore the world around them through engaging and easily digestible books. We also publish profile- or partnership-led books that bring people and brands closer to the children who love them.

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