Miles Kelly Publishing is an independent
children's publishing company founded by Jim Miles and Gerard Kelly in 1996. It is based in the village of
Bardfield End Green near
Thaxted
Thaxted is a town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of north-west Essex, England. The town is in the valley of the River Chelmer, not far from its source in the nearby village of Debden, and is 97 metres (318 feet) above sea level (whe ...
in
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
,
UK, after moving from its base of 13 years in
Great Bardfield
Great Bardfield is a large village in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is located approximately northwest of the town of Braintree, and approximately southeast of Saffron Walden.
The village came to national attention during the ...
in 2010. Its books are available throughout the world in over 50 languages. Miles Kelly's publishing list is aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 12 years.
Miles Kelly's backlist consists of over 700 titles – encyclopedias, reference series, quiz books, dictionaries, atlases, handbooks, fact books, poetry, fiction and novelty books.
Since 1996 Miles Kelly has on occasion produced books for other publishers. In total it has created over 200 titles for 15 different publishing companies in the UK and US. Miles Kelly produced six of the
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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titles.
Alongside its traditional publishing output, Miles Kelly used to run Budding Press, an imprint specialising in the production of high-end children's fiction for self-publishers, but this project has since ceased.
See also
*
UK children's book publishers
List of UK children's book publishers.
For UK children's authors, see Children's non-fiction authors.
A
* Albury Books
* Allen Lane
* Andersen Press
* Austin Macauley Publishers
B
* Barefoot Books - Canadian not British
* Barrington Stoke
...
References
External links
Miles Kelly homepage
Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
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