Elizabeth Bennett

I am accepting  submissions by referral only and I will not respond to unsolicited submissions. For other inquiries you can email me here:

I have spent my career in the children’s publishing industry with positions in marketing, product development and editorial at such companies as Scholastic, Reader’s Digest and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Prior to joining the Transatlantic Agency, I was an Executive Editor at HMH where I focused on brand-forward publishing around classic properties like Curious George, Little Blue Truck and The Little Prince as well as novelties, board books and picture books. During my tenure I established an IP program launching several middle grade series including The Next Best Junior Chef, Survivor Diaries, and Junior Ninja Champion.

As an agent, I represent a balanced list of talented picture book, graphic novel, middle grade and YA authors and illustrators. I love books that pull at the heart strings, make me laugh, make me think, make me smile; and especially books that make even a reluctant reader want to curl up in a nook and read.

Contrary to evidence suggesting otherwise, my favorite book is not Pride and Prejudice.

Recent sales include:

• Trent and Sawyer, Click Spin-off series by Kayla Miller and Jeffrey Canino. Middle grade graphic novels to Clarion.
• Averil Offline by Amy Parks. Middle grade novel to Nancy Paulsen, Penguin.
• Counting Backward by Anne Rellihan. Middle grade novel to Holiday House.
• Monster Up! by Cyndi Marko. Picture book to Paula Wiseman, Simon & Schuster.
• 312 by Shaunta Grimes. YA novel to Albert Whitman.
• Amazing Art Mysteries by Heather Alexander. Middle grade non-fiction to Candlewick/MIT Kids Press.
• Absolutely Everything by Damian Alexander. Middle grade graphic novel to Graphic Universe.
• Two Birds and a Moose by James Preller. Early Reader to Simon & Schuster.
• The Time Keepers by Meagan Mahoney. Middle grade novel to Cormorant.
• The Elephant in the Room by Cyndi Marko. Early Reader graphic novel series to Penguin Workshop.
• I Hated You in High School by Kathleen Gros. Graphic Novel to Andrews McMeel.
• Top Heavy by Rhonda DeChambeau. YA novel in verse to Holiday House.
• What Dogs Don’t Know by James Preller. Picture book to Clarion.
• One Mad Cat by Vicky Fang. Early reader series to Candlewick.