company penguin young readers group penguin group founder roger price leonard stern and larry sloan country of origin united states headquarters location new york city publication types books nonfiction topics novelty official website us.penguingroup.com price stern sloan originally known as price stern sloan or pss is a publisher now an imprint of the penguin group that was founded in los angeles in the early 1960s to publish the mad libs that roger price and leonard stern had concocted during their stint as writers for tonight starring steve allen and also the droodles . along with their partner larry sloan they expanded the company into children s books novelty formats and humor . some of the books they publish include movie tie ins for films such as happy feet wallace and gromit catwoman and elf how to be a jewish mother 1964 jack s. margolis complete book of recreational drugs 1978 and other properties such as serendipity mr. men and little miss wee sing baby loves jazz and books by children s artist and designer salina yoon . today pss still publishes approximately ten mad libs books a year . mr. stern and mr. sloan went on to found tallfellow press in los angeles . the putnam publishing group now the penguin group and now part of penguin random house bought price stern sloan in 1993 and in 1997 the headquarters were moved to new york . references edit tallfellow press external links edit penguin group website 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 companies portal books portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title price stern sloan & oldid 702709958 categories book publishing companies based in new yorkpearson plcpublishing companies established in the 1960s navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 february 2016 at 06 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view