Blue Banyan Books is an independent publishing house producing riveting, engaging, lasting works from the Caribbean imagination for bookshelves all over the world. We aim to uncover, recover and discover great writing and present diverse voices coming out of the Caribbean.

Our growing catalogue of children’s books is populated by fun, dynamic stories with engaging characters that live on in a child’s memory. We produce children’s picture books as well as illustrated chapter books. Our stories range from folk tales to contemporary stories all set in the vibrant Caribbean landscape which provides diverse settings for the adventures of our young heroes and heroines.

Under the imprint Blouse & Skirt Books, the Jamaican term used to express euphoria, awe, and admiration, we produce radical and riveting poetry, prose and graphic novels for adults and young adults.

Blue Banyan Books is the home of writers with something to say, who say it well and say it differently.