Scholastic Corporation facts for kids
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| Status | Public company |
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| Traded as | NASDAQ: SCHL S&P 600 Component |
| Founded | October 22, 1920 Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, US |
| Founder | Maurice Robinson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City, New York, US |
| Key people | Richard Robinson, CEO, president & chairman; Kenneth Cleary, CFO |
| Publication types | Books, Magazines, pre-K to grade 12 instructional programs, classroom magazines, films, television |
| Nonfiction topics | Children's literacy and education |
| Revenue |  US$1.6 billion (2016) |
| No. of employees | 8,900 (2019) |
Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education and media company that publishes and distributes comics, books and educational materials for schools, parents and children. Products are distributed through retail and online sales and through schools via reading clubs and fairs.
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Book clubs
Scholastic book clubs are offered at schools in many countries. Typically, teachers administer the program to the students in their own classes, but in some cases, the program is administered by a central contact for the entire school. Within Scholastic, Reading Clubs is a separate unit (compared to, e.g., Education). Reading clubs are arranged by age/grade.
Notable books
- The 39 Clues
- The Amazing Days Of Abby Hayes
- Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series
- Animorphs
- The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series
- Alvin, Simon and Theodore
- The Baby-sitters Club
- Bananas (magazine)
- Bionicle
- Bone (colorized editions)
- Captain Underpants series
- Clifford the Big Red Dog (series)
- Dynamite
- Dynamath (magazine)
- Freak the Mighty
- Genny in a Bottle series
- Ghostville Elementary series
- The Ghost Hunter
- Good Night, Sleep Tight
- Guardians of Ga'hoole series
- Goosebumps
- Geronimo Stilton series
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Harry Potter series (US)
- History of My Back Yard series
- I-Spy
- Jigsaw Jones Mysteries
- The Magic School Bus series
- PLAY! Scholastic (magazine)
- The Hunger Games
- The Royal Diaries series
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition (annual)
- Scholastic News (magazines)
- Science World
- Star Wars series
- Sunfire series
- The Scholastic Dictionary of Spelling
- T*Witches
- Warriors series
- Wishbone series
- Wow (magazine)
Criticism
Scholastic has been criticized for bad marketing to children. A large number of titles have strong media tie-ins and are considered short in literary and artistic merit by some people. Consumer groups have also said that Scholastic is selling too many toys and video games to children.
See also
In Spanish: Scholastic Corporation para niños
