Bio

Enchanted Lion Books is an independent, family-owned publishing company based in Brooklyn, NY. We opened our doors and published our first list in spring, 2003. We love books, well-told stories, and illustrations that serve to enhance and deepen a child's sense of story. Our name stems from our belief that animals are enchanting to children, who also are enchanted —- deeply intuitive, open and curious as they are. We have the highest respect for children, animals, the world we live in and those books that delight and enrich the lives of those who read them.

We select the books that we publish with great care. We look for books that we believe children will enjoy and that reflect an individual voice or vision. We live with the books that we publish long before they go to press. We read them to our children and their friends. We share them with educators and librarians. We sleep with them under our pillows until they invade our dreams. We believe in the books we publish because they are beautiful and lively, thoughtful and full of feeling. They evince a fierce belief in the imagination, exploring the inner world as richly as they do the world around us. Our books explore the feelings and imaginative lives of various animal and human characters, but they also travel out into the world around us, into northwest Pakistan, China during the Cultural Revolution and the golden age of Arab science and invention. We have published books from authors and illustrators in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, The Netherlands, and the US.

Books help children to cross all kinds of boundaries and borders long before they begin to grasp the world through actual travel and experience. We strive to give children books that will encourage them to feel that the whole world -- with all of its wonderful, surprising and very real differences and similarities -- is their home.

We hope you enjoy our books!