western publishing was a children s book publishing company that was popular from the early 1900s to the mid 1970s . whitman published a variety of children s books including westerns mysteries science fiction adventure stories and various others . whitman also published authorized editions of popular television shows such as hawaii five o roy rogers lassie and book adaptations of many walt disney films . their main genre of publishing was westerns and mystery but they encompassed many other genres as well . contents 1 history 2 gallery 3 references 4 external links history edit in 1938 whitman began publishing coin boards used by coin collectors to store their collections . in 1942 the company published its first price guide the official blue book of u.s. coins . this started an expanding line of books aimed at numismatists which would include hundreds of titles . the line continued as western was sold to mattel in 1982 then spun off and renamed golden books family entertainment . the new company sold off whitman coin products and other non kids lines to st. martin s press . they in turn sold off just the whitman coin products line to the h.e. harris company another publisher specializing in coin collecting materials . h.e. harris was then renamed whitman publishing and continues to produce primarily coin collecting materials . 1 gallery edit a coin board featuring united states pennies references edit https www.whitman.com store info history external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title whitman publishing & oldid 727474157 categories book publishing companies of the united states 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 29 june 2016 at 06 25 . 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