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5 unusual facts about Bantam Books


Brave Little Tailor

In 1985 Bantam Books published a children's book called Mickey Meets the Giant which featured Mickey encountering the same giant.

Daniel Merriam

Merriam has produced paintings for the covers of books by Paula Volsky and Neal Barrett Jr. published by Bantam Books, as well as for an international literary journal, Mid-American Review.

Julie Hilden

It was translated into French by Actes Sud in France, and also published in England by the UK division of Bantam Books in 2004.

Robert C. Stanley

Stanley also worked for other important paperback book publishers such as Bantam Books and Signet Books and also worked as an artist for cover or interior artwork for magazines such as Adventure, Argosy, Redbook, Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post.

Waitsfield, Vermont

Vermont Crossroads Press published "The Adventures of You Series", which later became the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's books by Bantam Books.


Carol Bowman

Her first two books, Children's Past Lives (Bantam, 1997) and Return from Heaven (HarperCollins, 2001), about reincarnation, have been published in more than twenty three foreign languages.

Galaxy High

An 85-page paperback book titled Galaxy High School was published in August 1987 by Bantam-Skylark Books and written by Ann Hodgman.

Marla Mason

The first four books in the series were published by Bantam Books imprint Bantam Spectra, but after the publisher dropped the series Pratt continued publishing the remainder of the series first through serialized versions and reader donations and then through successful Kickstarter campaigns.

Ralph Reese

Also during the 1980s, Reese illustrated more than a dozen titles in Bantam Books' Choose Your Own Adventure series.

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

More than a decade later, Bantam publisher Lou Aronica learned of the draft, convinced Congdon to send him a copy, and quickly encouraged Miller to resume work on the novel.


see also

James Bama

Beginning with The Man of Bronze (1964), he did a powerful set of 62 covers for the Doc Savage Bantam Books paperbacks, often using as a model actor Steve Holland, star of TV's Flash Gordon (1954–55).

One.Tel

Paul Barry, Rich Kids, Bantam Books, 2002, ISBN 1-86325-338-6