SCHOLASTIC CORPORATION

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'Scholastic Corporation' () is an American book publishing company known for publishing educational materials for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and distributing them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has the exclusive United States publishing rights to the Harry Potter book series.^[1]
In the 1970s, Scholastic Press was well-known mainly through their Scholastic Book Club, a mail-order service dealing in children's books, and their magazine publications aimed at youths: Wow (preschoolers and elementary schoolers), Dynamite (pre-teens) and Bananas (teens).
Scholastic has grown its business most recently by acquiring other media companies, including Klutz Press, the animated television production company Soup2Nuts, the K-12 educational software publisher Tom Snyder Productions, and most significantly the reference publisher Grolier, which publishes the ''Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia'' and ''The New Book of Knowledge''.

Contents

History

Corporate divisions and subsidiaries

Selected list of publications

Scholastic Productions

See also

Reference

External links

History

In 1925, M. R. "Robbie" Robinson founded the business he named Scholastic Publishing Company in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a publisher of youth magazines, the first publication was ''The Western Pennsylvania Scholastic.'' It covered high school sports and debuted on October 22, 1925. ^[2]
In 1926 Scholastic published its first book, ''Saplings'', which was a collection of selected student writings by the winners of the Scholastic Writing Awards.
For many years the company continued its focus on serving the youth market through the relatively low cost of magazine publication. So even with the later transition into paperback books, the company continued under the name Scholastic Magazines, Inc. through the 1970s.
After World War II, cheap paperback books became available. So then in 1948, Scholastic entered the school book club business with its division T.A.B., or Teen Age Book Club™ with classic titles priced at 25 cents.
In 1957 Scholastic established its first international subsidiary, Scholastic Canada, in Toronto.
The company published paperback books under its division Scholastic Book Services. These were offered to school students via classroom mail order catalogs, known as the Scholastic Book Club. Along with the New York and Toronto publishing locations, the division also expanded further internationally to operate in London, Auckland, and Sydney by the 1960s. By 1974, the paperback book division had expanded into Tokyo as well.
In 1974, Richard "Dick" Robinson, the son of founder M. R. Robinson, became President of Scholastic Inc. He was named Chief Executive Officer in 1975 and Chairman in 1982, and still remains in those positions.
In 1997, Scholastic became a major publisher, when it bought the U.S. rights to publish the first Harry Potter book. It has continued publishing the Potter books, all of which have been record best sellers.

Corporate divisions and subsidiaries

★ Scholastic Marketing Partners/QED (Quality Education Data)

★ Scholastic Trade Books
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★ Scholastic Press
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★ Arthur A. Levine Books
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★ Cartwheel Books
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★ The Chicken House
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★ Graphix
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★ Little Shepherd
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★ Michael di Capua Books
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★ Orchard Books
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★ PUSH
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★ Scholastic en español
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★ Scholastic Paperbacks
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★ Scholastic Reference
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★ The Blue Sky Press

★ Scholastic Book Fairs

★ Scholastic Book Clubs

★ Scholastic At Home

★ Scholastic Classroom Magazines

★ Lectorum Publications

★ Scholastic Education

★ Scholastic Media

★ Scholastic Library Publishing

★ Scholastic National Service Organization

★ eScholastic

★ Scholastic Canada Ltd.

★ TeachersPayTeachers.com (a recent acquisition)^[3]

Selected list of publications

★ ''The Amazing Days Of Abby Hayes''

★ ''Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls'' series

★ ''Animorphs''

★ ''The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids'' series

★ ''The Baby-sitters Club''

★ ''Bananas'' (magazine)

★ ''Bionicle''

★ ''Bone'' (colorized editions)

★ ''Captain Underpants'' series

★ ''Clifford the Big Red Dog'' (series)

★ ''Dynamite''

★ ''Genny in a Bottle'' series

★ ''Ghostville Elementary'' series

★ ''Guardians of Ga'hoole'' series

★ ''Goosebumps''

★ ''Geronimo Stilton'' series

★ ''Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia''

★ ''Harry Potter'' series (in the United States)

★ ''I-Spy''

★ ''Jigsaw Jones Mysteries''

★ ''The Magic School Bus'' series

★ ''PLAY! Scholastic'' (magazine)

★ ''Science World''

★ ''Star Wars'' series

★ ''The Scholastic Dictionary of Spelling''

★ ''Wishbone'' series

★ ''Wow'' (magazine)

Scholastic Productions

'Scholastic Productions' is a production company that produce such shows like ''Arthur'', ''Charles in Charge'', ''Clifford the Big Red Dog'', ''Clifford's Puppy Days'', ''The Magic School Bus'', ''Goosebumps'', ''Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!'', ''Super Mario World'' and ''Maya & Miguel''.

See also

★ Qubo

Reference

1. Corporate profile on Yahoo!
2. About Scholastic People And History
3. http://www.scholastic.com/aboutscholastic/news/press_01252007_CP1.htm

External links

★ Official website

★ Official website on Tom Snyder Productions, a division of Scholastic

★ Official website of Soup2Nuts, an animation studio division of Scholastic

★ Official website of Klutz Press, a division of Scholastic

★ Official website of TeachersPayTeachers.com, a division of Scholastic