Printing and publishing children’s books

For some people books are a source of information, for others a pleasant way to spend a few hours, and for some they are indispensable companions in life. However ambiguous our attitude to this noble product of printing may be, no one will dispute its special role in our lives. Publishing a children’s book means creating a beautiful, colourful edition with an interesting story and bright illustrations. Such literature can open up a new world for children, captivate them and teach them something new.

What we offer in children’s book publishing

The Kavun publishing house is a publishing platform for independent authors: anyone can publish their manuscript here, and you can also use the services of professionals to realise any authorial idea. We print children’s books on board and on other materials, in runs of up to 1,000 copies and more.

We want our books to give readers nothing but pleasure, so we offer a full range of editorial and publishing services at fair rates.

Our publishing house guarantees the required print quality even when only one copy is needed. Print runs published at the author’s own expense also have consistently low prices. For customers who do not know how to go about printing a book, we give expert advice on every question throughout the whole project.

Any format, any genre, any book

A children’s picture book can be published in different ways. We offer our customers four options for cooperation.

1. Exclusive and gift editions. Order the printing of a book in Dnipro online in a single copy for yourself, for relatives, for friends or for business. All you have to specify is the format and the type of binding, and the gift will be unique.
2. Individual orders. These are small runs. Our printing house prints children’s books in small quantities, which is perfect when you want to publish family editions, collections of personal poems or your own works. We take an individual approach to such single orders.
3. Corporate printing. Every company or organisation also uses publishing services, above all for producing corporate information: annual reports, magazines and directories, summaries and results for a reporting period and much more. By a medium print run we mean 50 to 200 copies.
4. Large print runs. Such orders come from educational institutions of any level, from ministries, publishing houses and others. Editions of this kind are produced exclusively by the offset method, and the numbers reach hundreds of thousands of copies.

How we publish children’s books

Our printing house publishes children’s books in small or large print runs according to a simple algorithm.

Design and illustration for children’s books

Have you not yet decided what your book will look like? Our creative designers will produce illustrations for it. A professional illustrator knows exactly how to make a children’s book with illustrations and will work according to the wishes and preferences of the customer.

Today the illustrations in children’s literature have to attract the reader’s interest no less than the text itself. Many buyers make their choice in favour of talented artwork.

Illustrations help children to engage with a book. They add to the emotional experience of reading and enrich it both in meaning and aesthetically. Well-made illustrations can foster a love of reading and of fine art, and through them a child perceives, understands, learns and remembers important aspects of life, human characters and relationships between people.

Preparatory work

If you do not know how to publish a children’s book, the work is best entrusted to professionals. We produce correct, high-quality original layouts and do the typesetting professionally. Our specialists make sure that the resulting layout is not only beautiful and harmonious but also matches the content of your book; the genre and the style of the work both play a part here. In the course of this work we:

• set the width of the margins;
• choose the best fonts;
• set the line spacing and letter spacing, the headers and the footers.

The layout service means arranging the text, the headings, the illustrations and other images in the original layout. It is done in specialised software that prepares the layout for printing, and at the same time colour correction and colour separation are carried out. After that the inner block and the cover are laid out according to the printing house’s technical specification.

Types of binding for children’s books

Have you decided where to publish a children’s book? Our printing house produces a wide variety of multi-page literature for all tastes. In each case the best binding method is chosen:

1. Soft. A book in a soft cover is as close as possible to a book from a bookshop or a glossy magazine.
2. Hard. Hardcover binding, including with a metal spine.
3. On a spiral. A non-standard binding solution that is simple and easy to use.
4. On staples. For books with a small number of pages: simple and economical.

Requesting a cost estimate for printing a children’s book

Our specialists calculate the price of the publishing service once they have all the information about the future edition:

1. the format;
2. the number of pages;
3. the cover;
4. the quality and weight of the paper;
5. the binding materials;
6. the printing method and technology;
7. design work;
8. pre-press preparation (layout, proofreading, editing and so on);
9. additional print finishing, for example lamination, UV varnishing, die-cutting, embossing, perforation, foil stamping or rounding the corners of the finished book block;
10. the assignment of an ISBN code and the author’s mark.

On the basis of this information the cost of printing a series of children’s books on board is calculated. We will offer you the best and most technologically suitable option, the one that brings out the content of the work in the best possible way.