Depends what you want from it.
If you really believe in your idea, work with an illustrator and develop a manuscript, workshop the manuscript, edit the manuscript, and then start shopping it around to publishers who are open to unsolicited work and children’s books.
If you just want to say “I wrote a book” or it’s some vanity project for yourself, you can self-publish, I guess.
Writing is an art, and a book is a product. Writer’s who pay to publish are suckers, honestly. You should be the one getting paid (which will be a very small amount, for your first unsolicited manuscript). The only money you should be spending is on an editor, maybe.
The world is stuffed full of delusional self published authors and their vanity projects. Don’t be another one, just take it seriously and do it the right way.
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