"the children's imprint Puffin Books began with a series of non-fiction picture books; the first work of children's fiction published under the imprint was Barbara Euphan Todd's ""Worzel Gummidge"" the following year. Another series that began in wartime was the ""Penguin Poets"": the first volume was a selection of Tennyson's poems (D1) in 1941. Later examples are ""The Penguin Book of Modern American Verse"" (D22), 1954, and ""The Penguin Book of Restoration Verse"" (D108), 1968. J. M. Cohen's ""Comic and Curious Verse"" appeared in three volumes over a number of years. Pelican Books was relaunched as a digital imprint in"
"as its emblem. The publisher of paperbacks, Penguin Books, introduced a range of books for children under the Puffin Books brand in 1939. At first these were non-fiction titles but these were soon followed by a fiction list of well-known authors. The demand was so great that Puffin Book Clubs were introduced in schools to encourage reading, and a children's magazine ""Puffin Post"" was established. There is a tradition on the Icelandic island of Heimaey for the children to rescue young puffins, a fact recorded in Bruce McMillan's photo-illustrated children's book ""Nights of the Pufflings"" (1995). The fledglings emerge from"
"Puffin Books Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. The imprint now belongs to Penguin Random House, a subsidiary owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann and the British publishing company Pearson plc. Four years after Penguin Books had been founded by Allen Lane, the idea for Puffin Books was hatched in 1939, when Noel Carrington, at the time an editor for ""Country Life"" books, met him and proposed a series of"
"Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken, Leon Garfield and Spike Milligan. After the 2009 re-launch, contributors included Charlie Higson, Cathy Cassidy and Michael Morpurgo. Puffin Books Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. The imprint now belongs to Penguin Random House, a subsidiary owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann and the British publishing company Pearson plc. Four years after Penguin Books had been founded by Allen Lane, the idea for Puffin Books was"
"Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane, his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Penguin's success demonstrated that large audiences existed for serious books. Penguin also had a significant impact on public debate in Britain, through its books on British culture, politics, the arts,"
"propounded by writers and teachers from America and elsewhere. Penguin Education also published an extensive range of Readers and introductory texts for students in higher education, notably in subjects such as psychology, economics, management, sociology and science, while for teachers it provided a series of key texts such as ""Language, the Learner and the School"" and ""The Language of Primary School Children"". Following Allen Lane’s death in 1970 and the takeover the same year by Pearson Longman, the division discontinued publishing school books and was closed in March 1974. More than 80 teachers, educational journalists and academics signed a letter"
"of teenage fiction. Tony Lacey took over Webb's editorial chair in 1979 at the invitation of Penguin managing director Peter Mayer when Puffin was one of the few profitable divisions of the beleaguered company. In line with Mayer's policy of more aggressive commercialisation of the Penguin brand Lacey reduced the number of Puffin imprints, consolidated popular titles under the Puffin Classics rubric and inaugurated the successful interactive gamebook series Fighting Fantasy. Complimentary to the Puffin Club the Puffin School Book Club, addressed specifically to schools and organisations, grew significantly in this period helping to confirm Puffin market position such that"
"Penguin (book) Penguin is a 2007 award-winning children's picture book by Polly Dunbar. It is about a boy who receives a penguin as a present and how they interact. ""Penguin"" has been favourably received with Kirkus Reviews writing ""Visually, Ben’s contortions and Lion’s aplomb hearken back to early Sendak. While it’s at first unclear whether the immutable Penguin is a stuffed toy, a pet or something else entirely, kids will know—by story’s end at the very latest—that this bird’s a friend. An attractively designed, child-appealing package."". Publishers Weekly found ""Dunbar’s (Flyaway Katie ) winsome mixed media illustrations carry the day"
"control of Penguin, but was forced to retire shortly afterwards after being diagnosed with bowel cancer. He died in 1970 at Northwood, Middlesex. Allen Lane Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. In 1967 he started a hardback imprint under his own name, Allen Lane. Allen Lane Williams was born in Bristol, to Camilla (née Lane) and Samuel Williams, and studied at Bristol Grammar School."
"reigniting worldwide interest into authors such as Stefan Zweig and Antal Szerb. In 2012, Pushkin Press was bought by Adam Freudenheim, then Penguin Classics publisher, and Stephanie Seegmuller, a former Penguin senior business development manager. Seegmuller left Pushkin in March 2015. In 2013, Pushkin Press created Pushkin Children's Books, an imprint dedicated to publishing tales for younger readers. In its first year, Pushkin Children's Books published English translations of the French children's series Oksa Pollock by Anne Plichota and Cendrine Wolf, the first of which, ""The Last Hope"", was the company's bestselling title in 2014. Dutch Classic ""The Letter for"
"Firebird Books Firebird Books (launched January 2002) is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., publishing mainly paperback reprint editions of science fiction and fantasy for teenagers and adults. It was created by Sharyn November, one of the few children's book editors who works with teenagers. In the process, she discovered that some of her best readers loved speculative fiction, and were going into the adult genre sections of bookstores and libraries in order to find it. Firebird has quickly become the most recognizable imprint of its kind, and Sharyn November was named a World Fantasy Award Finalist in both"
"list into this new market. To this end Eleanor Graham was appointed in 1941 as the first editor of the ""Puffin Story Books"" series, a venture made particularly difficult due to the resistance of publishers and librarians in releasing the rights of their children's books. The first five titles, ""Worzel Gummidge"", ""Cornish Adventure"",""The Cuckoo Clock"", ""Garram the Hunter"" and ""Smokey"" were published in the three horizontal stripes company livery of the rest of the Penguin output, a practice abandoned after the ninth volume when full-bleed colour illustrated covers were introduced, a fact that heralded the much greater design freedom of"
"by Penguin Books. Viking's current president is Brian Tart. The Viking Critical Library offers academic editions of literary texts. Like W. W. Norton's ""Norton Critical Editions"", all titles print the text alongside a selection of critical essays and contextual documents (including relevant extracts from the author's oeuvre). The series, which only saw sporadic publications in the late '70s and late '90s, has been dormant since 1998, with no new titles released since then. However, a number of existing titles remain in print. In 1933, Viking Press founded a department called Junior Books to publish children's books. The first book published"
"was ""The Story About Ping"" in 1933 under editor May Massee. Other stories published under the Viking label early in its history include ""Make Way for Ducklings"" (1941), ""The Twenty-One Balloons"" (1947) and ""The Story of Ferdinand"" (1936). Junior Books was renamed to Viking Children's Books at some point in the past. It currently publishes approximately sixty titles a year. Viking Press Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George"
"one for short stories. A fifth division for Children's books was added in 2001 for fiction for 8-12 year olds, with separate awards for ""Short Fiction"" and ""Long Fiction"". With the 2008 Awards the ""Short Fiction"" children's fiction category became a category for ""Illustrated Work/Picture Book"". For the 2010 Awards, the two categories became one for children's fiction told primarily through pictures and another for children's fiction told primarily through words. For the 2013 Awards, the two categories were merged into a single category for children's books. The Young Adult and Children's categories cover books in all three speculative fiction"
"written—the Pelican History remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of world art published. Mobile bookstore launched by Penguin Books India in collaboration with Ms. Satabdi Mishra and Mr. Akshaya Rautaray. Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane, his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass"
"Roc Books Roc Books is a fantasy imprint of Penguin Group, as part of its New American Library. It was launched in April 1990 after Penguin Chairman Peter Mayer asked John Silbersack, the editor in chief of New American Library's science-fiction program, to launch a new imprint that would draw more attention to Penguin's SF presence. The name Roc Books was chosen as a homage to Penguin's many famous bird-named publishing imprints. Roc was named after the enormous predatory bird of the Arabian Nights. After Penguin's merger with G.P. Putnam's Sons the imprint was aligned with Ace books and the"
"the name Carolyn Keene) series, including the original series and the more recent lines. Aladdin Paperbacks Aladdin Paperbacks is one of several children's-book imprints owned by Simon & Schuster. It was established by Jean E. Karl at Atheneum Books where she was the founding director of the children's department (1961). Atheneum merged with or was acquired by Scribner's in 1978, then MacMillan in 1984, before the acquisition by Simon & Schuster in 1994. There may have been previous uses of 'Aladdin' as a brand name in the book industry. Aladdin Paperbacks are aimed at readers aged 4 to 12 and"
"the Puffin series over the rest of Penguin's books. Graham retired in 1961 and was replaced by Kaye Webb who presided over the department for 18 years in a period that saw greatly increased competition in the children's market as well as a greater sophistication in production and marketing. One innovation of Webb's was the creation of the Puffin Club in 1967 and its quarterly magazine ""Puffin Post"", which at its height had 200,000 members. The Puffin authors' list added Arthur Ransome, Roald Dahl and Ursula K. Le Guin during Webb's editorship and saw the creation of the Peacock series"
"journal along with other titles in book form, some of which are listed below: Further details of these and other publications can be found on the PCS website. Penguin Collectors Society The Penguin Collectors Society (PCS) is an educational charity based in the United Kingdom. Its primary purpose is to promote the study and research of all aspects of Penguin Books, the publishing company founded by Allen Lane in 1935. The PCS was started in 1974 by a small group of enthusiasts in Richmond, southwest London, who recognised the importance of Penguin’s contribution to publishing history, its innovations in book"
"of the field."" Children of Wonder Children of Wonder is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories edited by William Tenn, published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in 1953. It was reprinted in paperback in 1954 by Permabooks, under the title ""Outsiders: Children of Wonder"". The only anthology edited by Tenn, its stories feature children with superhuman or supernatural talents. ""The Words of Guru"" originally carried the ""Kenneth Falconer"" byline. ""The Piper's Son"" originally carried the ""Lewis Padgett"" byline. P. Schuyler Miller reviewed the anthology favorably in ""Astounding"", saying it included ""both top-notch stories and good but routine"
"40 books for adults per year, half fiction and half non-fiction. After the acquisition by Penguin, books that Penguin acquired the rights to as part of the acquisition of Dutton were published in paperback under the imprint Puffin Unicorn (because Puffin has been the longtime paperback imprint for the Penguin Group). Penguin merged with Random House to form Penguin Random House in 2015. In 2017, sister imprint Blue Rider Press was closed and its books were moved to Dutton. E. P. Dutton E. P. Dutton was an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts, in"
"Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster. The first Penguin paperbacks were published in 1935, but at first only as an imprint of The Bodley Head (of Vigo Street) with the books originally distributed from the crypt of Holy Trinity Church Marylebone. Only paperback editions were published until the ""King Penguin"" series debuted in 1939, and latterly the ""Pelican History of Art"" was undertaken: these were unsuitable as paperbacks because of the length and copious illustrations on art paper so cloth bindings were chosen instead. Penguin Books has its registered office in the City of Westminster, London, England. Anecdotally, Lane"
"used by the newly founded Penguin Books company to store books. A children's slide was used to deliver books from the street into the large crypt. In 1937 Penguin moved out to Harmondsworth, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) moved in. It was their headquarters until 2004, when they relocated to London Diocesan House in Causton Street, Pimlico. The bookshop relocated to Tufton St in 2003. On 1 November 2006, St. Stephen The Great Charitable Trust [SSG] took over the Bookshops but continued to trade under the SPCK name, under licence from SPCK. That licence was withdrawn in"
"the annual puffling rescue in which the children have been participating for generations. The official name chosen was Psyjueftirlitið með Brúsa Bjargfasta / The Puffling Patrol with Bruce the Rescuer, a nod to Bruce McMillan. American Library Association Notable Book, 1996 [3]<br> A Children's Book of Distinction - Hungry Mind Review, 1996<br> Parents' Choice Picture Book, 1995 [2]<br> Parenting magazine Certificate of Excellence, 1995<br> A Lupine Honor Book, Maine Librarians Association, 1996<br> A Best Book of the Year, School Library Journal, 1995<br> A Best Kids' Book of the Year, Crayola Kids magazine, 1995<br> A Few Good Books selection, Booklinks magazine,"
"Geraldine McCaughrean Geraldine McCaughrean ( ; born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 170 books, including ""Peter Pan in Scarlet"" (2004), the official sequel to ""Peter Pan"" commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the holder of Peter Pan's copyright. Her work has been translated into 44 languages worldwide. She has received the Carnegie Medal twice and the Michael L. Printz Award among others. McCaughrean was born in London and grew up in North London. She was the youngest of three children. She studied teaching but found her true vocation in writing. She claims"
"children's non-fiction picture books, inspired by the brightly coloured lithographed books mass-produced at the time for Soviet children. Lane saw the potential, and the first of the picture book series were published the following year. The name ""Puffin"" was a natural companion to the existing ""Penguin"" and ""Pelican"" books. Many continued to be reprinted right into the 1970s. A fiction list soon followed, when Puffin secured the paperback rights to Barbara Euphan Todd's 1936 story ""Worzel Gummidge"" and brought it out as the first Puffin story book in 1941. The first Puffin editor, Eleanor Graham, saw the imprint through the"
"Bailey's article in the ""St. Joseph News-Press"", parents objected to the book's placement in the fiction section, thus insisting that the book be placed in the non-fiction section instead. The book was transferred because ""fewer people browse the children's nonfiction section"" and ""because it was based on the true story of two male penguins that hatched an egg in the New York City Zoo"". The permanent move of the book was made on March 4, 2006. On March 23, 2007, Johanna Habeisen, a library media teacher at Woodland Elementary school received a threatening letter from her principal, Kimberley Saso, because"
"Penguin Collectors Society The Penguin Collectors Society (PCS) is an educational charity based in the United Kingdom. Its primary purpose is to promote the study and research of all aspects of Penguin Books, the publishing company founded by Allen Lane in 1935. The PCS was started in 1974 by a small group of enthusiasts in Richmond, southwest London, who recognised the importance of Penguin’s contribution to publishing history, its innovations in book design and typography, and the role that its many thousands of published titles have played in influencing and educating generations of readers. While it is evident that this"
"the Round Table""), and ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" (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 may be a collectors item. Grosset & Dunlap Grosset & Dunlap is a United States publishing house founded in 1898. The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 and today is part of Penguin Random House through its subsidiary Penguin Group. Today, through the Penguin Group, they publish approximately 170 titles a year, including licensed children's books for such"
"to write. She has also written ""Author: A True Story"" (Houghton Mifflin, 1997; , ), directed towards young writers and based on her school visits and the editing process as a writer. Helen Lester Helen Lester (born June 12, 1936) is an American children's writer, best known for her character Tacky the Penguin in many of her children's stories. Lester was born in Evanston, Illinois but has moved around the United States making homes in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis and finally settling in Pawling, New York with her husband. As a girl, Lester dreamed of getting married"
"of Norse Myths""; the Newbery Honor Book ""Pecos Bill""; ""Wee Gillis"", a Caldecott Honor Book; the 1944 winner of the Carnegie Medal, ""The Wind on the Moon""; Esther Averill's ""Jenny and the Cat Club"" series; ""The House of Arden""; ""The 13 Clocks""; ""The Wonderful O""; ""The Peterkin Papers""; and holiday favorites ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"". The New York Review Children's Collection New York Review Books Children's Collection is a series of children's books released under the publishing imprint New York Review Books. The series was founded in 2003 to reintroduce some of the many children's books"
"words Penguin Random House bookended by orange (as a tribute to the original colors of Penguin). For the 250 or so imprints this design would display their traditional logo image to the left of the Penguin Random House words. The logo was introduced in an animated video showcasing various imprints. DK (Dorling Kindersley) was founded in London in 1974 and is a reference publisher focusing on non-fiction for adults and children. As of 2015 DK also has official publishing relationships with Angry Birds, Lego, Marvel, and ""Star Wars"". Crown Publishing was founded in 1933 as the Outlet Book Company, a"