Designed for Scale
Our business model focuses on the *$1.9bn children's publishing market and building brands beyond publishing to strengthen book sales. By using best-in-class licensing and entertainment partners we'll not only increase revenue, but we'll also help create successful programs for our publishing partners. Kitty Cones collectible toys sold over 200K units at mass and specialty retailers such as Wal-mart, Claires, and Gamestop helping build brand awareness and resulting in over 100k initial books sold and more titles in the works. *IBIS world
Asett Library
Our extensive assets include trademarks and copyrights on multiple brands in the U.S. and Japan. We have a wide breadth of manuscripts and artwork for various books and IPs in the pipeline. In addition, C&Ws massive art vault includes material such as animations, comics, mobile games and iMessage stickers for marketing and social media. In addition, we've amassed a variety of style guides and product conceptualizations for consumer products licensing, model sheets and pitch bibles for entertainment, all to hit the road running.
Board & Picture Books
Middle Grade and Young Adult Books
The story behind C&W
Cruikshank & Wallace is dedicated to the life of John Wallace Skinner, a World War II veteran, who, at the age of 17, helped liberate the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp in Germany. After the war, John returned home to Ohio, where he became the Director of the Salvador Dali Museum in Beachwood, the Director of the Cleveland Aquarium and proud owner of an independent book and print shop in downtown Cleveland. It was at this shop where C&W founder Ralph Cosentino met John Wallace Skinner. After attending The Cleveland Institute of Art, Ralph landed a design job at the studio above John’s book shop. After one visit, the two became lifelong friends. – John Wallace Skinner remained a great influence on Ralph’s life, artistic style, and his view of the world. John introduced Ralph to 18th-century British cartoonist and book illustrator, George Cruikshank, who also would become a source of inspiration in Ralph's career. – The logo for Cruikshank & Wallace of a bird fleeing its cage captures the feeling most people experience when they reach for a book off a shelf: the ability to escape from reality—if even for a brief moment—and let their imagination bring them somewhere new and unfound.
