The Best Publishing A Childrens Book - February 2023

Harold D. Underdown

Harold Underdown is an independent editor ; he can critiques, helps create manuscripts, also supplies additional consulting and editorial services for individuals and publishers.

Harold loves instruction, and in that job published The Complete Idiot's Guide to Children's Book Publishing, now in its third edition. He founded and conducts "The Purple Crayon," a respected web site with information for authors and illustrators about the children's publishing universe at http://www.underdown.org/. He speaks and gives marathon throughout the Highlights Foundation, SCBWI's regional and national conventions, and Kid’s Novel Revisions (offering online and on-site tutorials and workshops in partnership with Eileen Robinson).

As a in-house editor, he also worked at Macmillan, Orchard, and Charlesbridge, and has expertise in educational and trade publishing. Among the books he has edited are Yumi Heo's One Afternoon, Larry Pringle's and Bob Marstall's An Incredible Life, Lisa Rowe Fraustino's Ash, Grace Lin's The Ugly Vegetables, and Sneed Collard's and Michael Rothman's The Forest in the Clouds. He's also the editor to the Young Patriots Series, published by Patria Press.