About Pierrot Books

Pierrot Books is an independent children’s publisher based in Montréal, bringing playful stories, distinctive illustration and imaginative European creativity to readers across North America.

Pierrot Books builds on a children’s publishing tradition founded in 1993. For more than 30 years, the team has created books that educate, entertain and inspire, publishing more than 1,000 titles and selling more than 300,000 copies annually across Europe. Now expanding in North America, Pierrot Books brings proven European children’s books to readers across Canada and the United States.

✨ BOOKS CHILDREN WANT TO RETURN TO
We create books that invite curiosity, conversation and repeated reading.

✨ ILLUSTRATION WITH PERSONALITY
Distinctive visual storytelling is at the heart of every Pierrot book.

✨ A BRIDGE BETWEEN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
We bring proven European children’s books to families, schools, libraries and booksellers across Canada and the United States.

Pierrot Books titles are distributed by Independent Publishers Group (IPG).