Gallimard Jeunesse
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| Parent company | Éditions Gallimard |
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| Country of origin | France |
| Headquarters location | Paris |
| Publication types | Books |
| Fiction genres | Children's literature |
| Official website | www |
Gallimard Jeunesse is a French publisher of children's books. It is a subsidiary of Éditions Gallimard.
It is the publisher of the French versions of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, the catalogue of Roald Dahl, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Animorphs by Katherine Applegate, The English Roses and other books by Madonna, Winnie the Pooh, and Pokémon.
Gallimard also publishes The Book of Time trilogy, by Guillaume Prévost (which includes The Book of Time, The Gate of Days and The Circle of Gold).
Games and gamebooks
In the 1980s, they published most of the gamebooks in France, in the collection Folio Junior — Un livre dont vous êtes le héros (a book in which you are the hero, a reference to the caption of the covers of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks), including Fighting Fantasy, Sorcery!, Lone Wolf, The World of Lone Wolf, Sagas of the Demonspawn, Grailquest, Cretan Chronicles, Horror Classic Gamebooks, Virtual Reality, Double Game, Clash of the Princes, Golden Dragon Fantasy Gamebooks, Blood Sword, Real Life Gamebooks, Fatemaster, Forbidden Gateway, Sherlock Holmes Solo Mysteries, Super Sherlock, and a few original French series. They still publish some Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf gamebooks (reissue started in 2012).
In the 1980s, they also published some games: picture book games (Alfred Leonardi: Ace of Aces, Dragonriders of Pern; Mike Vitale and Joe Angiolillo's Shootout at the Saloon) and roleplaying games: Dragon Warriors, The Dark Eye and Pendragon.
