WRITER’S GUIDELINES
CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Pauline Books & Media is the publishing house of the Daughters of St. Paul, an international congregation of women religious serving the Church with the communications media. Through our children’s literature we seek to provide wholesome and entertaining reading that can help children develop strong Christian values.

Manuscripts may or may not be explicitly catechetical, but we seek those that reflect a positive worldview, good moral values, awareness and appreciation of diversity, and respect for all people. All material must be relevant to the lives of young readers and must conform to Catholic teaching and practice.

Our list includes prayer books, lives of the saints, coloring books, Bible stories, Christmas and Easter stories, and seasonal activity books. We are now accepting submissions for easy-to-read and middle-reader chapter fiction, in addition to our lines of board books and picture books for younger readers. We do not currently publish catechetical textbooks. We rarely publish fantasy, fairy tales, science fiction, myths, romance, or poetry. Please visit our online store at www.pauline.org for examples of our children’s books.

For board books and picture books, the entire manuscript should be submitted. For easy-to-read and middle-reader books, please send a cover letter accompanied by a synopsis and two sample chapters. Unless you are a professionally trained artist, please do not include illustrations with your manuscript.

You may mail your submission to the address below, or e-mail your cover letter with proposal, sample chapters, etc., as attached Microsoft Word files. If the submission is simultaneous, please state this in your cover letter.

For return of materials, please enclose a self-addressed, appropriately-sized envelope with sufficient postage. We make every effort to respond to unsolicited submissions within three months.