奇想國童書（Everafter Books）成立于2015年，2016年開始出版圖書，專注服務(wù)0-12 歲少兒讀者及其家庭，以”甄選精品、出版精品，帶給孩子們高品質(zhì)的精神滋養(yǎng)”為理念，成立九年多來，已出版500余種極具思想和審美價值的圖書，多次榮獲包括國家圖書館“文津圖書獎”、深圳讀書月“年度十大童書”、全國少年兒童圖書館“我最喜愛的童書”、“年度優(yōu)秀童書排行榜Top10”等眾多童書獎項，并頻繁入選國內(nèi)最著名的優(yōu)秀童書書單。
奇想國以出版高品質(zhì)的引進(jìn)版圖書見長。其中，在圖畫書方面，出版了包括布蘭登·文策爾的《他們都看見了一只貓》，西德尼·史密斯的《大大的城市，小小的你》，謝麗·達(dá)斯基·瑞科爾的《晚安，工地上的車》系列，曼努埃爾·馬索爾的《山中》，克莉絲汀·羅希夫特的《每個人都重要》，凱蒂·克勞澤 的《美杜莎媽媽》，蒂娜·奧耶維奇 著，亞歷山德拉·扎永茨 繪的《我們的情感王國》，威爾弗里德·魯帕諾的《穿內(nèi)褲的狼》系列，蘇菲·布萊科爾的《如果你到地球來》， 貝婭特麗絲·阿勒瑪尼婭的《別怕那些小逝去，親愛的小孩》，托尼·羅斯的《小公主》系列等。
在文學(xué)圖書方面，出版了厄蘇拉·弗農(nóng)的《倉鼠公主》系列，邁克爾·巴克利的《格林姐妹》系列，阿維的《幽光森林的居民們》系列，保羅·加爾頓的《老鼠偵探社》系列，安妮·拜羅斯著，蘇菲·布萊科爾繪的《艾薇和豆豆》系列。奇想國致力打造的兒童文學(xué)“新經(jīng)典”書系“奇想文庫”已出版45本，180余次獲得國內(nèi)外獎項或書單推薦，其中包括2021年林格倫紀(jì)念獎得主讓-克勞德·穆萊瓦 的《刺猬杰斐遜和一樁懸案》，意大利卡爾維諾獎得主葆拉·馬斯特羅科拉的《那一年，葉子沒有落下來》等。
奇想國也出版了多本圖像小說，諸如湯姆·奧戈瑪的《一生之旅》等。
奇想國的原創(chuàng)圖書在國際國內(nèi)屢獲大獎。其中，圖畫書《馬蒂斯的旅行》作為中國僅有的兩本，入選2024年博洛尼亞童書展The BRAW Amazing Bookshelf；低幼圖書《蝸牛老師的幼兒園——捉迷藏》英文版獲得美國童書業(yè)最受尊重的獎項之一《科克斯書評》2021年最佳童書；《龍生九子》版權(quán)銷往俄羅斯，《蟲蟲藝術(shù)家》作者盧心遠(yuǎn)獲得2024年《紐約時報》十佳圖畫書，2024大鵬自然童書獎“啟迪獎”，《蟲蟲藝術(shù)家》和《龍生九子》榮列《父母必讀》雜志社2024年原創(chuàng)繪本推薦榜單Top10。原創(chuàng)兒童文學(xué)書系“自古英才出少年·科學(xué)”4本，獲得2023年《中國教師報》”推動兒童發(fā)展的十本書·非繪本“年度推薦。
奇想國多次榮獲行業(yè)評選的“年度優(yōu)秀童書品牌”，并于2018年在僅成立3年時，收獲“改革開放40年民營書業(yè)百佳品牌榜”“最受歡迎少兒出版機(jī)構(gòu)”的殊榮。2025年，奇想國獲得BOP大獎—博洛尼 亞童書展全球最佳童書出版機(jī)構(gòu)獎。
奇想國童書的創(chuàng)始人黃曉燕女士作為首位來自中國內(nèi)地的出版人，于2024年擔(dān)任博洛尼亞童書展插畫展國際評委。
With a mission statement of “publishing high-quality books for children 0-12 years old and nurturing them with exceptional content”, Everafter Books was founded in 2015 and has started publishing books since early 2016. Over the past 9 years, Everafter has published over 600 titles with extremely thoughtful and aesthetic values, many of which have won nation-wide awards, such as The National Library of China “Wenjin Book Award”、"Annual Top 10 Best children’s Books ”sponsored by Shenzhen Reading Month、 “My Favourite Children’s Books Award” organized by the alliance of more than 40 provincial children’s libraries across China、“Top 10 Children’s Books of the Year” issued by Parenting Science magazine and many other children's book awards, and have frequented in the most prestigious children’s book selection lists in China.
Everafter Books is well known for its unique taste of publishing unparalleled good children’s books. For picture books, Everafter has published many international leading creators’ works, such as They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel, Small In The City by Sydney Smith, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series by Sherri Duskey Rinker, The Mountain (Yokai-La Montagne) by Manuel Marsol, Everybody Counts (Alle sammen teller) by Kristin Roskifte, Mother Medusa (Mère Méduse) by Kitty Crowther, What Feelings Do When No One's Looking (Co ribia uczucia?) written by Tina Oziewicz and illustrated by Aleksandra Zajac, Le Loup en slip series by Wilfrid Lupano, If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall, LES CHOSES QUI S’EN VONT by Beatrice Almagna, The Princess Series by Tony Ross, and so on.
For children’s literature books, Everafter has published Hamster Princess series by Ursula Vernon, The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley, Tales from Dimwood Forest series by AVI, The Great Mouse Detective series by Paul Galdone, Ivy & Bean series written by Annie Barrows and illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Since its establishment, Everafter has started to create a collection of valuable middle grade fictions called Everafter Collection of Children's Literature, which has released 46 titles so far, has been sold more than 3 million copies in total and has been awarded and listed by more than 180 nation-wide children’s books recommendation lists.
The series includes Jefferson by Jean Claude Mourlevat, winner of the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, If You Were Real(L’anno che non caddero le foglie) by Paola Mastrocola, winner of the Premio Calvino Prize, and so on.
Everafter has also published many graphic novels, such as Tom Haugomat’s Through a Life(à Travers).
Titles originated by Everafter Books have won many awards both at home and abroad. Of these, picture book Matisse's Journey, as one of the only two books from China, was selected to 2024 BRAW Amazing Bookshelf by Bologna Book Fair; English edition of toddler book A Little Snail Book: Hide-and-Seek, published by Chronicle Books for the English language world, won 2021 Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book; the rights of The Nine Sons of the Dragon was sold to Russia; Thea Lu, winner of the 2024 New York Times Top 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award, published Is This Art with Everafter Books and has just won 2024 Dapeng Natural Children’s Book Award; Is This Art and The Nine Sons of the Dragon were selected as the 2024 TOP 10 Chinese Original Picture Books by Parenting Science magazine; middle-grade fiction Seeds of Genius: The Childhood Chronicles of China's Greatest Scientists(4 titles) series was recommended by China Teachers’ Weekly as “The Annual Best 10 Books that Support Children’s Development”.In 2025, Everafter Books won the BOP Award—the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publisher of the Year at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
Everafter Books was frequently awarded “Annual Leading Children’s Book Publishers in China” and “The Most Popular Children’s Book Brands in China” etc.. It was also named “Top 100 Book organizations in 40 years since China’s Reform and Opening-up Policies” in 2018, just three years after its establishment(The 100 organizations include book sellers and printers, among which, book publishers only account for 40%.). Everafter Books established a joint venture company with Bayard Group in 2017, and a joint brand with Chronicle Books in 2018. The founder of Everafter Books, Ms. Xiaoyang Huang, as the f irst publisher from Mainland China, has served as one of the international jury members of Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition in 2024.
