Our Story

Once Upon A Time, two friends came together because of their love of the written word and old books. Storytelling from years gone by, from the children’s classics and pictures from the golden age of illustration. A time when children’s books were not just read by children but by adults too. As C. S. Lewis once wrote:

“… a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story.” 

We are a small fledgling company who over the last couple of years have been acquiring the feathers we need to fly and here we are, about to take flight with our first adventure.   

Our small band of storytellers will take children and adults into amazing, beautiful and sometimes frighteningly scary worlds. Taking them to places they would not normally go. Just like all those years ago, when an old merchant sailor would sit on a wooden barrel down at the dockside, spinning stories to small groups of children about his travels around the world (embellishing and exaggerating what really happened) capturing the children’s imagination as they sat around him, eyes wide with excitement.   

At The Three And Six Book Publishing Company we have set out to find writers gifted in the art of storytelling who can weave stories that you cannot put down and, together with our wonderful artists, to create books that are so beautiful that from time to time you take them down from your bookcase to read again. Books you can pass down to your children and grandchildren. Books you and your family can truly treasure forever.

We believe that all children are like sponges soaking up everything they see. When a child sits in bed or an old armchair reading, we want to fill their heads with wonder.

We believe all children grow differently. We feel that our books are written to be read by or read to children of any age.

We pride ourselves on looking at the world from a child’s eyes, and we never underestimate how clever, brave and spirited children are.

All these thoughts are reflected in the books we publish.