Kids Can Press, Toronto, ON

Kids Can Press, the largest Canadian-owned children’s publisher in the world — home to major children’s brands Franklin the Turtle and Scaredy Squirrel, and to an array of international award-winning books — celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2013. From its early years as a small collective borne out of a desire to publish high-quality, socially responsible children’s books, Kids Can Press has evolved into a broad-based content company, adapting as the world of books and publishing has changed through the decades.

Kids Can Press consistently delivers high-quality print books that parents, teachers, librarians and children around the world have come to expect from the Toronto-based publisher, and currently leads the way in Canada with the most children’s illustrated ebooks in the market.