About Us


Established more than 35 years ago, Monarch has a long history publishing and distributing quality books for the Canadian marketplace. We offer a broad range of titles in Children, Sports, Health & Fitness, Special Needs and Teacher Resource from a large selection of North American and International publishers. We also distribute a range of bestselling titles from the largest independent Audio Book publisher in North America and a fine line of Cookbooks has recently been added to our already extensive product offering.

Our primary focus is Children’s fiction and non-fiction books, from award-winning picture books to popular mass market Children’s paperbacks and board books. With Dino-Hockey and the other titles in the Dino-series reaching over 25,000 copies sold, Monarch is well-established in the children’s book marketplace.

Over the past ten years, Monarch has become the preeminent producer of an entirely Canadian supplementary workbook series in conjunction with Popular Books of Canada. Smart Series Workbooks are the leading supplementary workbooks in Canada. Written and designed by Canadian teachers, composed entirely of Canadian content, all age groups and areas of curriculum are available for both students and teachers. Millions of books have been used by Canadian school children to reinforce and master their schoolwork in a fun and rewarding way.

More recently, through various high quality suppliers, we now offer the widest selection of Sports-themed books available in Canada. Included are major sport biographies as well as a growing line of how-to books for runners, swimmers and fitness enthusiasts.