Grosset & Dunlap - Wikipedia Grosset & Dunlap From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search American publishing house Grosset & Dunlap Parent company Penguin Young Readers Group (Penguin Group) Founded 1898 Founders Alexander Grosset, George T. Dunlap Country of origin United States Headquarters location 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 us.penguingroup.com Grosset & Dunlap is a United States 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] Today, through the Penguin Group, they publish 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, Sonic X, The Wiggles, and Atomic Betty. Grosset & Dunlap also publishes Dick and Jane children's books and, through Platt & Munk, The Little Engine That Could. Contents 1 History 2 Series books published by Grosset & Dunlap 3 See also 4 Notes and references 5 External links History[edit] 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 photoplay editions and juvenile series books such as the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, Cherry Ames and other books from their long partnership with the Stratemeyer Syndicate (currently owned by Simon & Schuster). After George T. Dunlap retired in 1944, Grosset & Dunlap was sold to a consortium of Random House; Little, Brown; Harper and Brothers; Scribners; and the Book-of-the-Month Club.[3] In 1954, Grosset & Dunlap acquired McLoughlin Brothers.[4] Grosset & Dunlap had an initial public offering in 1961, by which time the majority of the books published were children's books.[5] Grosset & Dunlap launched the paperback reprint house Bantam Books in 1945 in cooperation with Curtis Publishing Company.[6] In 1964, Grosset & Dunlap acquired full ownership of Bantam from Curtis.[7] 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. The original Little, Brown editions had plates of high quality paper for the illustrations, but the Grosset & Dunlap editions were to print the illustrations on the same stock as the text. 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. The line drawings he did for Grosset & Dunlap are simpler than the illustrations he had made for Little, Brown, and are generally more charming. The original Little, Brown illustrations better convey Cady's remarkable vision for Burgess' creatures.[8] Grosset & Dunlap published the Burgess books as hardcovers with dustjackets 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).[9] In 1968, Grosset & Dunlap was acquired by conglomerate National General, run by Gene Klein.[10] National General was acquired by American Financial Group in 1973.[11] In the 1970s and 1980s, the company's Charter Books (also known as Ace Charter) imprint published mystery fiction, most notably the Leslie Charteris series, The Saint. In 1974, Filmways bought the company from American Financial Group (Bantam was sold separately).[12] 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.[13][14] 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, which chronicled and dramatized a series of interviews with the ex-president conducted by British television personality David Frost. Shortly after the aforementioned interviews aired among great publicity, the copy editor whom Grosset & Dunlap sent to San Clemente to work on the book with Nixon's staff was 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, an expurgated edition of Gulliver's Travels, 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 (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.[15] Putnam merged with Penguin Group in 1996 [16] In 2013, Penguin merged with Bertelsmann's Random House, forming Penguin Random House.[17] Today, Grosset & Dunlap's new juvenile series include Dish, Camp Confidential, Flirt (books), Katie Kazoo, Dragon Slayers' Academy, and Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver's Hank Zipzer series. Series books published by Grosset & Dunlap[edit] Beverly Gray (1934–55) Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1926–38) Buddy Books for Boys The Bobbsey Twins Camp Confidential Cherry Ames (1943–68) Chip Hilton (1948–66) Christopher Cool (1967–69) The Dana Girls (1934–79) Hal Keen Hank Zipzer The Hardy Boys Judy Bolton (1932–67) Ken Holt (1949–63) The Lone Ranger (1936–56) Nancy Drew Pee-wee Harris Rick Brant (1947–68) Roy Blakeley Signature Biographies Skippy Dare Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1952–56) Tom Slade Tom Swift (1910–41) Tom Swift, Jr. (1954–71) Tom Quest (1947–55) Westy Martin We Were There (1955–63) Who Was...? See also[edit] Wonder Books Companies portal Books portal Notes and references[edit] ^ 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 October 2014 – via Northern Illinois University. ^ a b "A Bookseller's Guide to Grosset & Dunlap". Retrieved 2019-01-20. ^ aasmaster (2014-11-05). "McLoughlin Bros" (Text). American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved 2019-04-15. ^ "GROSSET & DUNLAP IN STOCK OFFERING; 436,086 Shares Marketed at $29 in First Public Sale". The New York Times. 1961-05-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20. ^ "How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read | Mental Floss". Retrieved 2019-01-20. ^ "Curtis Sells Stake in 3 Book Concerns". The New York Times. 1964-02-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ "Grosset & Dunlap, Publisher, Acquired by National General". The New York Times. 1968-03-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20. ^ Wilcke, Gerd (1973-11-08). "$32.7‐Million Deal Completed By British Unit of Sterling Drug". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20. ^ "Filmways to Acquire Grosset Dunlap". The New York Times. 1974-07-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20. ^ Corry, John (July 7, 1982). "Briefs On The Arts. Putnam and Berkley Buy Grosset & Dunlap, PEI". The New York Times. Retrieved February 8, 2010. ^ McDowell, Edwin (1982-05-22). "Grosset & Dunlap Being Sold". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20. ^ https://www.amazon.com/dp/044840561X ^ Maneker, Marion (January 1, 2002). "Now for the Grann Finale". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-23. ^ Emily Minehart and Meg Hixon. "Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign". www.library.illinois.edu. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 8 August 2016. 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