Grosset & Dunlap
Parent company | Penguin Young Readers Group (Penguin Group) |
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Founded | 1898 |
Founders | Alexander Grosset, George T. Dunlap |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | 345 Hudson Street, 14th floor, New York City |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | Photoplay editions, children's literature, mystery fiction |
Imprints | Platt & Munk Charter Books (Ace Charter) Bedtime Stories Junior Library |
Official website | www |
Grosset & Dunlap is a New York City-based publishing house founded in 1898.
The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982[1] and today is part of Penguin Random House through its subsidiary Penguin Group.[2]
In recent years, through the Penguin Group, they have published approximately 170 titles a year, including licensed children's books for such properties as Miss Spider, Strawberry Shortcake, Super Why!, Charlie and Lola, Nova the Robot, Weebles, Bratz, The Wiggles, Sonic X, and Atomic Betty. Grosset & Dunlap also publishes Dick and Jane children's books and, through Platt & Munk, The Little Engine That Could.
History
The company was founded in 1898 by Alexander Grosset and George T. Dunlap. It was originally primarily a hardcover reprint house. In 1907, Grosset & Dunlap acquired Chatterton & Peck, who had a large children's list including the Stratemeyer Syndicate.[3]
Grosset & Dunlap is historically known for its
After George T. Dunlap retired in 1944, Grosset & Dunlap was sold to a consortium of
Grosset & Dunlap obtained permission from
Grosset & Dunlap published the Burgess books as hardcovers with dust jackets from 1949 to 1957, then as pink hardcovers without dust jackets from about 1962 into the 1970s. 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, owned by Penguin, canceled 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).[8]
In 1968, Grosset & Dunlap was acquired by conglomerate
In the 1970s and 1980s, the company's
In 1974, film and television company Filmways bought the company from American Financial Group (Bantam was sold separately).[11] During this time, Grosset & Dunlap acquired a new paperback publisher, Ace Books. Filmways sold Grosset & Dunlap to G. P. Putnam's Sons when Orion Pictures acquired Filmways in 1982.[1][12]
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
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
Putnam merged with Penguin Group in 1996 [13] In 2013, Penguin merged with Bertelsmann's Random House, forming Penguin Random House.[14]
Today, Grosset & Dunlap's new juvenile series include Dish, series.
Book series
- Beverly Gray (1934–1955)
- Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1926–1938)
- Buddy Books for Boys
- The Bobbsey Twins
- Camp Confidential
- Cherry Ames (1943–1968)
- Chip Hilton (1948–1966)
- Christopher Cool (1967–1969)
- The Dana Girls (1934–1979)
- Hal Keen
- Hank Zipzer
- The Hardy Boys
- Judy Bolton (1932–1967)
- Ken Holt (1949–1963)
- The Listener's Music Library[15]
- The Little Music Library[16]
- The Lone Ranger (1936–1956)
- Nancy Drew
- Pee-wee Harris
- Peggy Lane Theater Stories (1962–1965)
- Rick Brant (1947–1968)
- Roy Blakeley
- Signature Biographies[17]
- Skippy Dare
- Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1952–1956)
- Tom Slade
- Tom Swift (1910–1941)
- Tom Swift, Jr.(1954–1971)
- Tom Quest (1947–1955)
- The Universal Library[18]
- Westy Martin
- We Were There (1955–1963)
- Who Was...?
See also
Notes and references
- ^ a b Corry, John (July 7, 1982). "Briefs On The Arts. Putnam and Berkley Buy Grosset & Dunlap, PEI". The New York Times. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
- ^ Mary H. Munroe (2004). "Pearson Timeline". The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. Archived from the original on 2014-10-20 – via Northern Illinois University.
- ^ a b "A Bookseller's Guide to Grosset & Dunlap". Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ "How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read | Mental Floss". 19 April 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ aasmaster (2014-11-05). "McLoughlin Bros" (Text). American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ a b Thornton W. Burgess: A Descriptive Book Bibliography, Revised and Enlarged Edition, by Wayne W. Wright, The Thornton W. Burgess Society, 2000, page 40, and other misc. sources.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ Maneker, Marion (January 1, 2002). "Now for the Grann Finale". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ The Listener's Music Library, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ The Little Music Library (Grosset & Dunlap) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ Signature Biographies Archived 2020-09-25 at the Wayback Machine, reshelvingalexandria.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ Universal Library (Grosset & Dunlap) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.