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Grosset & Dunlap is a United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 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 its founding in 1838, the company has had several names, including Wiley & Putnam and the more recent Putnam Penguin, Inc....
 in 1982 and today is part of the British
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 publishing conglomerate, Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC

Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
 through its American subsidiary Penguin Group (USA).

Today, through the Penguin Group (USA) 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 Spider's Sunny Patch Friends - Harvest Time Hop and Fly video game....
, Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake is a Licensing#Artwork and character licensing 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 two characters in the series of books written by Lauren Child. They have now also been made into a T.V. series. They are suitable for all age groups and have even been mentioned in heat magazine....
, Nova the Robot, Weebles, Bratz
Bratz

Bratz is a popular line of fashion dolls and related merchandise designed by Carter Bryant and manufactured by southern California toy company MGA Entertainment....
, Sonic X
Sonic X

is a Japanese language anime that is adapted from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. It was produced in Japan by Tokyo Movie Shinsha with the partnership of Sonic Team....
, The Wiggles
The Wiggles

The Wiggles are a children's music formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Phillip Wilcher....
, and Atomic Betty
Atomic Betty

Atomic Betty is a Canada 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 M?tropole 6 in France....
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Grosset & Dunlap is a United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 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 its founding in 1838, the company has had several names, including Wiley & Putnam and the more recent Putnam Penguin, Inc....
 in 1982 and today is part of the British
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 publishing conglomerate, Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC

Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
 through its American subsidiary Penguin Group (USA).

Today, through the Penguin Group (USA) 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 Spider's Sunny Patch Friends - Harvest Time Hop and Fly video game....
, Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake is a Licensing#Artwork and character licensing 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 two characters in the series of books written by Lauren Child. They have now also been made into a T.V. series. They are suitable for all age groups and have even been mentioned in heat magazine....
, Nova the Robot, Weebles, Bratz
Bratz

Bratz is a popular line of fashion dolls and related merchandise designed by Carter Bryant and manufactured by southern California toy company MGA Entertainment....
, Sonic X
Sonic X

is a Japanese language anime that is adapted from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. It was produced in Japan by Tokyo Movie Shinsha with the partnership of Sonic Team....
, The Wiggles
The Wiggles

The Wiggles are a children's music formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Phillip Wilcher....
, and Atomic Betty
Atomic Betty

Atomic Betty is a Canada 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 M?tropole 6 in France....
. Grosset & Dunlap also publishes Dick and Jane
Dick and Jane

Dick and Jane were the main characters in popular basal readers written by Dr. William S. Gray 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, also known as The Pony Engine, is a moralistic children's story that appeared in the United States....
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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"....
s and juvenile series books such as the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew is an eighteen year-old girl and a fictional character, the heroine of the popular Nancy Drew Mystery Stories book series aimed at the Children's literature-Young-adult fiction audience, and written under the collective pseudonym "Carolyn Keene"....
, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift
Tom Swift

Tom Swift is the young protagonist in several series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continues to the present....
, 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....
 and other books from their former ownership of the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Stratemeyer Syndicate

The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins and others....
 (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....
). Today, Grosset & Dunlap's new juvenile series include Dish, Camp Confidential
Camp Confidential

Camp Confidential is a US book series for preadolescence written by Melissa J. Morgan. It focuses around a group of girls at Camp Lakeview. There are 21 books in this series so far....
, Flirt (books), Katie Kazoo
Katie Kazoo

Katie Kazoo is the title character in a series of books written by author Nancy E. Krulik and published by the Penguin Group....
, Dragon Slayers' Academy
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, published by Grosset & Dunlap....
, and Henry Winkler
Henry Winkler

Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, film director, Film 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 literature by actor Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, published by Grosset & Dunlap....
 series.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the company's Charter Books (also known as Ace Charter) imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 published mystery fiction, most notably the Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris , born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half-Han Chinese, half English people author of primarily mystery fiction, as well as a screenwriter....
 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....
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Series books published by Grosset & Dunlap


  1. The Hardy Boys
  2. Nancy Drew
    Nancy Drew

    Nancy Drew is an eighteen year-old girl and a fictional character, the heroine of the popular Nancy Drew Mystery Stories book series aimed at the Children's literature-Young-adult fiction audience, and written under the collective pseudonym "Carolyn Keene"....
  3. Tom Swift
    Tom Swift

    Tom Swift is the young protagonist in several series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continues to the present....
  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....
  5. The Bobbsey Twins
  6. 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....
  7. 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....
  8. Ken Holt
    Ken Holt

    Ken Holt is the central character in a series of 18 mystery stories for adolescent boys written by Sam Epstein and Beryl Epstein under the pseudonym Bruce Campbell....
  9. The Lone Ranger
  10. Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
    Tom Corbett, Space Cadet

    Tom Corbett is the main fictional 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....
  11. 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 and Leon in the first half of the 20th century in imitation of the successful Tarzan series....
  12. 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....
  13. 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 ....
  14. Camp Confidential
    Camp Confidential

    Camp Confidential is a US book series for preadolescence written by Melissa J. Morgan. It focuses around a group of girls at Camp Lakeview. There are 21 books in this series so far....
  15. We Were There
    We Were There

    The We Were There books are a series of historical novels written for children's literature. The series consists of 36 titles, first released between 1955 and 1963 by Grosset & Dunlap....
  16. Who Was...?
  17. Hank Zipzer
    Hank Zipzer

    Hank Zipzer: The World's Greatest Underachiever is a series of Children's literature by actor Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, published by Grosset & Dunlap....


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