Greystone Books is a Canadian book publisher. Initially an imprint of

Douglas & McIntyre Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd. is a Canadian book publishing firm. Douglas & McIntyre was founded by James Douglas and Scott McIntyre in 1971 as an independent publishing company based in Vancouver. Reorganized with new owners in 2008 as D&M ...

, the

Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...

-based company became its own entity in 2013.

History

Greystone Books was an imprint of

, and won the CBA Libris Award for Marketing Achievement of the Year in 2007. After

went bankrupt in 2013, publisher Rob Sanders bought Greystone Books and launched it as an in independent company. In 2017, the company won the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award. In 2019, the company launched the ''Greystone Kids'' and its ''Aldana Libros'' imprint to focus on English translations of global children's book titles.

Patsy Aldana Patricia Aldana is a children's book publisher based in Canada. She is the founder and former publisher of Groundwood Books, past president of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), former president of the IBBY Trust, and current ...

is the publisher of ''Aldana Libros''. Jen Gauthier took over as publisher of Greystone Books on January 1, 2022.

Activities

The company is based in Vancouver, and is known for its publication of English language books about people, the planet, and nature.

References

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