Grosset & Dunlap
Grosset & Dunlap is a United States book publisher founded in 1898.
The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 and today is part of the British publishing conglomerate, Pearson PLC through its American subsidiary Penguin Group (USA).
Today, through the Penguin Group (USA) 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.
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 former ownership of 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.
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 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 disgraced ex-president conducted by British television personality David Frost. Shortly after the aforementioned interviews aired among great publicity, the copy editor Grosset & Dunlap sent to San Clemente to work on the book with Nixon's staff was, ironically and purely coincidentally, named David Frost.
Series books published by Grosset & Dunlap
- The Hardy Boys
- Nancy Drew
- Tom Swift
- Cherry Ames
- The Bobbsey Twins
- Tom Slade
- Roy Blakeley
- Pee-wee Harris
- Westy Martin
- Buddy Books for Boys
- Hal Keen
- Skippy Dare
- Rick Brant
- Tom Quest
- Ken Holt
- The Lone Ranger
- Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
- Bomba, the Jungle Boy
- Tom Swift, Jr.
- Chip Hilton
- Camp Confidential
- We Were There
- Who Was...?
- Hank Zipzer