Grosset & Dunlap
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Grosset & Dunlap is a United States
United States
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 book publisher founded in 1898.

The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons
G. P. Putnam's Sons
G. P. Putnam's Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since 1996, it has been an imprint of the Penguin Group.-History:...

 in 1982 and today is part of the British
Great Britain
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 publishing conglomerate, Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC
Pearson plc is a global media and education company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is both the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world, with consumer imprints including Penguin, Dorling Kindersley and Ladybird...

 through its American subsidiary Penguin Group
Penguin Group
The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the largest in the world , having overtaken Random House in 2009. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations...

.

Today, through the Penguin Group
Penguin Group
The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the largest in the world , having overtaken Random House in 2009. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations...

 they publish approximately 170 titles a year, including licensed children's books for such properties as Miss Spider
Miss Spider
Miss Flora Spider is the name of a loving spider in the bestselling Miss Spider children's books by David Kirk. She originally appeared in cartoon format in the movie Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids , which spun off the Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends series , and Miss...

, Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake is a licensed character owned by American Greetings, originally used in greeting cards and expanded to include dolls, posters, and other products...

, Super WHY!, Charlie and Lola
Charlie and Lola
Charlie and Lola are characters created by author Lauren Child. The siblings were originally introduced in a series of books that were later made into a television series. Despite being primarily aimed at children aged 3–7, the books and shows are popular with adults, due to humorous and relatable...

, Nova the Robot, Weebles, Bratz
Bratz
Bratz is an American line of fashion dolls and merchandise manufactured by MGA Entertainment. Four original 10" dolls were released in 2001 - Cloe, Jade, Sasha and Yasmin...

, Sonic X
Sonic X
is an anime series based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. It was produced in Japan by TMS Entertainment with the partnership of Sega and was created by Sonic Team and Sonic Project. In the United States, 4Kids currently owns and manages copyright and branding of the series.- Series 1 ...

, The Wiggles
The Wiggles
The Wiggles are a children's group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Phillip Wilcher, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. Wilcher left the group after their first album...

, and Atomic Betty
Atomic Betty
Atomic Betty is a Canadian animated television series produced by Atomic Cartoons, Breakthrough Films & Television, and Tele Images Kids. Additional funding for production is provided by Teletoon in Canada and M6 and Télétoon in France. It currently airs on CITV. The series has once again begun...

. Grosset & Dunlap also publishes Dick and Jane
Dick and Jane
Dick and Jane were the main characters in popular basal readers written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp and published by Scott Foresman, that were used to teach children to read from the 1930s through to the 1970s in the United States...

 children's books and, through Platt & Munk, The Little Engine That Could
The Little Engine That Could
The Little Engine that Could is a children's story that appeared in the United States of America. The book is used to teach children the value of optimism and hard work...

.

Grosset & Dunlap is historically known for its photoplay edition
Photoplay edition
Photoplay edition refers to movie tie-in books of the silent film and early sound era at a time when motion pictures were known as "photoplays". Typically, photoplay editions were reprints of novels additionally illustrated with scenes from a film production. Less typically, photoplay editions were...

s and juvenile series books such as the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew is a fictional young amateur detective in various mystery series for all ages. She was created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm. The character first appeared in 1930. The books have been ghostwritten by a number of authors and are published...

, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift
Tom Swift
Tom Swift is the name of the central character in five series of books, first appearing in 1910, totaling over 100 volumes, of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention and technology. The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of...

, Cherry Ames
Cherry Ames
Cherry Ames is the central character in a series of 27 mystery novels with hospital settings published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1943 and 1968. Helen Wells wrote volumes #1-7 and 17-27, and Julie Campbell Tatham , the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #8-16. Wells also created the Vicki...

 and other books from their former ownership of the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Stratemeyer Syndicate
The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of mystery series for children, including Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins, the Rover Boys, and others.- History :...

 (currently owned by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...

). Today, Grosset & Dunlap's new juvenile series include Dish, Camp Confidential
Camp Confidential
Camp Confidential is a US book series for preteens written by Melissa J. Morgan. It focuses around a group of girls at Camp Lakeview . There are 25 books in this series so far...

, Flirt (books), Katie Kazoo
Katie Kazoo
Katie Kazoo is the title character in a series of books, Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo, written by author Nancy E. Krulik and published by the Penguin Group. Katie is often visited by the "magic wind", which turns her into other people and animals...

, Dragon Slayers' Academy
Dragon Slayers' Academy
Dragon Slayers' Academy is a children's book series written by author Kate McMullan and illustrated by Bill Basso, which currently features 19 books.-Plot:...

, and Henry Winkler
Henry Winkler
Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...

 and Lin Oliver's Hank Zipzer
Hank Zipzer
Hank Zipzer: The World's Greatest Underachiever is a series of children's books by actor Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, published by Grosset & Dunlap.-Overview:Hank Zipzer is a young boy growing up on the Upper West Side...

 series.

Grosset & Dunlap obtained permission from Little, Brown, to reprint Thornton Burgess's many children's books, and began issuing the "Bedtime Stories" series (20 books originally published 1913 - 1919, including such titles as "The Adventures of Reddy Fox" and "The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel") in 1949. While the original Little, Brown editions had plates of high quality paper for the illustrations, the Grosset & Dunlap editions were to print the illustrations on the same stock as the text, so they commissioned the original artist, Harrison Cady, to recreate the illustrations as line drawings appropriate for that type of paper, and to create many additional illustrations. Where the original Little, Brown editions had six full-page illustrations, the Grosset & Dunlap had 14 (fourteen) full-page drawings plus many smaller drawings placed throughout the text. Cady had matured as an artist in the decades since the original Little, Brown illustrations, and although the line drawings he did for Grosset & Dunlap are simpler than the illustrations he had made for Little, Brown, they are generally more charming, while the original Little, Brown illustrations better convey Cady's remarkable vision for Burgess' creatures. Grosset & Dunlap published these as hardcovers with dustjackets from 1949 - 1957, then as pink hardcovers without dust jackets from about 1962 into the 1970s. Then they issued them with library bindings in 1977. In most cases, the latest date printed anywhere in the book was from the early 1940s, so the Grosset & Dunlap editions are today often mistaken for being older than they are. In the 1980s, Little, Brown, now owned by Penguin, cancelled their permission for Grosset & Dunlap to publish the Burgess books. For most of the titles, the Harrison Cady illustrations commissioned by Grosset & Dunlap have never been published since then. An exception is the 2000 Dover edition of "The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver", which has all of them (the illustrations in most of the Dover editions are not the Grosset & Dunlap commissions).

In the 1970s and 1980s, the company's Charter Books (also known as Ace Charter) imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...

 published mystery fiction, most notably the Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charteris , born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half-Chinese, half English author of primarily mystery fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint."-Early life:Charteris was born to a Chinese father...

 series, The Saint
Simon Templar
Simon Templar is a British fictional character known as The Saint featured in a long-running series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. After that date, other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Charteris’s...

.

In 1978, the company drew a great deal of attention with its publication of RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. The preparation of the book was alluded to briefly in the 2008 Oscar-nominated film Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon is a 2006 play by British screenwriter and dramatist Peter Morgan. Its subject is the series of televised interviews that former United States President Richard Nixon granted David Frost in 1977 about his administration, including his role in the Watergate scandal.-Performance...

, which chronicled and dramatized a series of interviews with the disgraced ex-president conducted by British television personality David Frost
David Frost
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. Shortly after the aforementioned interviews aired among great publicity, the copy editor Grosset & Dunlap sent to San Clemente to work on the book with Nixon's staff was, ironically and purely coincidentally, named David Frost.

Grosset & Dunlap also published a series of literary classics which they called the Illustrated Junior Library. This series, published with colorful illustrations, included such titles as Heidi
Heidi
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, a very expurgated edition of Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels , is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of...

, Swiss Family Robinson, The Boy's King Arthur (published under the title King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table), and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of...

(a 1956 reprinting of the 1944 edition with new illustrations by Evelyn Copelman, and published under the title The Wizard of Oz). This edition is still in print, and although less well-known than the Denslow version, is very likely a collectors item to many.

Series books published by Grosset & Dunlap

  1. The Hardy Boys
  2. Nancy Drew
    Nancy Drew
    Nancy Drew is a fictional young amateur detective in various mystery series for all ages. She was created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm. The character first appeared in 1930. The books have been ghostwritten by a number of authors and are published...

  3. Tom Swift
    Tom Swift
    Tom Swift is the name of the central character in five series of books, first appearing in 1910, totaling over 100 volumes, of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention and technology. The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of...

  4. Cherry Ames
    Cherry Ames
    Cherry Ames is the central character in a series of 27 mystery novels with hospital settings published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1943 and 1968. Helen Wells wrote volumes #1-7 and 17-27, and Julie Campbell Tatham , the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #8-16. Wells also created the Vicki...

  5. The Bobbsey Twins
  6. The Dana Girls
    The Dana Girls
    The Dana Girls was a series of young adult mystery novels produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The title heroines, Jean and Louise Dana, are teenage sisters and amateur detectives who solve mysteries while at boarding school...

  7. Tom Slade
    Tom Slade
    Thomas A. Slade was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team in 1971.-Saginaw High School:...

  8. Roy Blakeley
  9. Pee-wee Harris
    Pee-Wee Harris
    Walter "Pee-wee" Harris, is a fictional Boy Scout who has appeared in several series of boy's books by Percy Keese Fitzhugh as well as in a long-running comic strip in the magazine Boys' Life...

  10. Westy Martin
  11. Buddy Books for Boys
  12. Hal Keen
  13. Skippy Dare
  14. Rick Brant
    Rick Brant
    Rick Brant is the central character in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels by John Blaine, a pseudonym for authors Harold L. Goodwin and Peter J. Harkins...

  15. Tom Quest
    Tom Quest
    Tom Quest is the central character in a series of eight adventure novels for adolescent boys written by Lone Ranger series author Fran Striker. The first six novels were published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1947 and 1952. The series was later reprinted by Clover Books, when #7-8 were published...

  16. Ken Holt
    Ken Holt
    Ken Holt is the central character in a series of 18 mystery stories for adolescent boys written by Sam and Beryl Epstein under the pseudonym Bruce Campbell. The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1949 and 1963. Ken Holt is the son of a world-famous foreign correspondent...

  17. The Lone Ranger
  18. Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
    Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
    Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master reels in the 1950s....

  19. Bomba, the Jungle Boy
    Bomba, the Jungle Boy
    Bomba the Jungle Boy was a series of American boy's adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood and published by Cupples & Leon in the first half of the 20th century in imitation of the successful Tarzan series....

  20. Tom Swift, Jr.
    Tom Swift, Jr.
    Tom Swift Jr. is the central character in a series of 33 adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift novels. The series was entitled The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures...

  21. Chip Hilton
    Chip Hilton
    William "Chip" Hilton is the central character in a series of 24 sports novels for adolescent boys written by the successful college basketball coach and 1968 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Clair Bee . In addition to Bee's authorship of the Chip Hilton series, he was also the author of several...

  22. Camp Confidential
    Camp Confidential
    Camp Confidential is a US book series for preteens written by Melissa J. Morgan. It focuses around a group of girls at Camp Lakeview . There are 25 books in this series so far...

  23. We Were There
    We Were There
    The We Were There books are a series of historical novels written for children. The series consists of 36 titles, first released between 1955 and 1963 by Grosset & Dunlap. Each book in the series is a fictional retelling of an historical event, featuring one or more children as primary characters...

  24. Who Was...?
  25. Hank Zipzer
    Hank Zipzer
    Hank Zipzer: The World's Greatest Underachiever is a series of children's books by actor Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, published by Grosset & Dunlap.-Overview:Hank Zipzer is a young boy growing up on the Upper West Side...

  26. Brer Rabbit Rides the Fox
  27. The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's...


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