Scholastic Corporation
Appearance
Company type | Public (NASDAQ: SCHL) |
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Industry | Books, Printing and Publishing |
Founded | 1920 |
Founder | Maurice R. Robinson |
Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States Toronto, Ontario Mexico City, Mexico London, England Shanghai, China Gurgaon, Haryana, India Sydney, Australia Auckland, New Zealand Buenos Aires Argentina San Juan, Puerto Rico Shiki, Saitama, Japan Seoul, South Korea |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Richard Robinson, CEO, Chairman, & President |
Revenue | US$1.8493 billion (2009)[1] |
US$(14.3) million (2009)[1] | |
Number of employees | 9,100 (2009)[1] |
Website | scholastic.com |
Scholastic (or Scholastic Inc.) is a global book publishing company known for making educational items for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and giving them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has the all the publishing rights to the Harry Potter book series in the United States.[2]
Notable books
[change | change source]- The 39 Clues
- The Amazing Days Of Abby Hayes
- Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series
- Animorphs
- The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series
- Alvin, Simon and Theodore
- The Baby-sitters Club
- Bananas (magazine)
- Bionicle
- Bone (colorized editions)
- Captain Underpants series
- Clifford the Big Red Dog (series)
- Dynamite
- Dynamath (magazine)
- Freak the Mighty
- Genny in a Bottle series
- Ghostville Elementary series
- The Ghost Hunter
- Good Night, Sleep Tight
- Guardians of Ga'hoole series
- Goosebumps
- Geronimo Stilton series
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Harry Potter series
- History of My Back Yard series
- I-Spy
- Jigsaw Jones Mysteries
- The Magic School Bus series
- PLAY! Scholastic (magazine)
- The Hunger Games
- The Royal Diaries series
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition (annual)
- Scholastic News (magazines)
- Science World
- Star Wars series
- Sunfire series
- The Scholastic Dictionary of Spelling
- T*Witches
- Warriors series
- Wishbone series
- Wow (magazine)
Criticism
[change | change source]Scholastic has been criticized for bad marketing to children. A large number of titles have strong media tie-ins and are considered short in literary and artistic merit by some people.[3] Consumer groups have also said that Scholastic is selling too many toys and video games to children.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Annual Report 2009" (PDF).[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "SCHL Profile - SCHOLASTIC CORP Stock - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com.
- ↑ Meltz, Barbara F. (20 November 2006). "Taking consumerism out of school book fairs". Boston.com – via The Boston Globe.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Official website
- Official website on Tom Snyder Productions, a division of Scholastic[permanent dead link]
- Official website of Soup2Nuts, an animation studio division of Scholastic Archived 2011-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Official website of Klutz Press, a division of Scholastic
- Official website of TeachersPayTeachers.com
- Scholastic Art & Writing Awards[permanent dead link]
- Blog: On Our Minds At Scholastic