company penguin young readers group penguin group founded 1898 country of origin united states headquarters location new york city official website us.penguingroup.com grosset & dunlap is a united states book publisher 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 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 . 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 . 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 . 3 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 . 4 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 which in turn was sold to g. p. putnam s sons 5 when orion pictures acquired filmways in 1982 . 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 . 6 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 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 . 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 . corry john july 7 1982 . briefs on the arts . putnam and berkley buy grosset & dunlap pei . the new york times . retrieved february 8 2010 . http www.amazon.com dp 044840561x external links edit grosset & dunlap v t e penguin random house random house usa crown crown broadway harmony hogarth three rivers ten speed watson guptill knopf doubleday knopf doubleday everyman s library us pantheon schocken vintage random house ballantine bantam dell del rey dial modern library spectra villard children s beginner books golden information books on tape fodor s living language the princeton review prima games uk cornerstone hutchinson random house william heinemann ebury bbc books ebury del rey fodor s rider virgin books 90 % transworld bantam doubleday vintage publishing the bodley head chatto & windus harvill secker jonathan cape vintage canada mcclelland & stewart douglas gibson books tundra books new canadian library other companhia das letras 45 % penguin random house grupo editorial alfaguara penguin group uk dorling kindersley hamish hamilton ladybird penguin penguin classics puffin rough guides viking warne us alpha author solutions authorhouse iuniverse trafford xlibris dutton penguin putnam riverhead sentinel tarcher viking berkley publishing group ace berkley new american library jove plume roc children s dial young readers dutton children s firebird g. p. putnam s sons grosset & dunlap philomel price stern sloan puffin warne parents bertelsmann pearson plc v t e spooksville by christopher pike books the secret path creature in the teacher publisher s grosset & dunlap and pocket books us hodder & stoughton uk cover art lee macleod us other tv series episodes retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title grosset % 26 dunlap & oldid 737835331 categories grosset & dunlap booksbook publishing 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