Guppy Books is an independent children’s fiction publisher based in Oxford, UK. Set up in 2019 by publisher Bella Pearson, Guppy publishes an eclectic, diverse and entertaining list of books for children from the age of five to eighteen. Since its first publication in September 2019, we have been shortlisted for all the major children’s book prizes including the Carnegie Medal, the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Young Adult Book Prize and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. In 2023, The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail won the Waterstones Overall Children’s Book of the Year.