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13 unusual facts about Scholastic Corporation


Danny Orleans

Orleans has written, appeared in, or contributed to numerous instructional texts on magic, including a series of ten books and magic sets with DVDs for New York publisher, Scholastic Corporation.

Hollywood High

Although Theatrix Interactive has since become defunct, the program was picked up by Tom Snyder productions, a division of Scholastic Corporation.

I Spy Spooky Mansion

I Spy Spooky Mansion is a search and find PC game created in 1999 by Scholastic based on the I Spy books.

James Preller

After graduating from college in 1983, James Preller was employed as a waiter for one year before being hired as a copywriter by Scholastic Corporation, where he was introduced (through their books) to many notable children's authors.

Jessica Palmer

Random Factor - Scholastic (Jun 16 1994) ISBN 0-590-55665-7, ISBN 978-0-590-55665-1

Marvin Terban

Three of his Scholastic books, Checking Your Grammar, Dictionary of Idioms, and Dictionary of Spelling, have sold well over one million copies each.

Michael Hobson

After stints at Publishers Weekly and as a literary agent at William Morris, Hobson joined Scholastic, the global children's publishing and media company.

Petar Meseldžija

Meseldžija painted covers for the children's fantasy novels published by Scholastic Corporation.

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Scholastic Corporation, a global publishing company of educational materials

Sylviane Diouf

She received the 2001 Africana Book Award for Older Readers from the African Studies Association for her book Kings and Queens of West Africa, part of a four-book series (Scholastic, 2000).

Teacher and the Rockbots

Scholastic Corporation offered the CD in a Teacher's Bonus Point Catalog.

Their music CDs and songs are distributed by Allegro Music Group, Scholastic Corporation, Discovery Communications, CD Baby, Amazon.com and iTunes.

The New York Times Upfront

The New York Times Upfront is a newsmagazine for high school students, published by Scholastic Inc. with articles and other content provided by reporters from The New York Times.


Horrible Geography

Horrible Geography is a series of books which is a spin-off of the Horrible Histories series written by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips, and published in the UK by Scholastic.

Indira Stefanianna

She also performed voice overs for Scholastic Media in Clifford the Big Red Dog and the so-called series Your Community Changes Every Day (for which she won the DuKane Citizenship Award).

Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet

Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet is a children's literature book by science writer June A. English and astronaut Thomas David Jones that was published in 1996 by Scholastic.

Orin Hargraves

In addition he has contributed definitions and other material to dictionaries and other language reference works issued by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Longman, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Chambers Harrap, Langenscheidt, Berlitz, Scholastic Corporation, and Merriam-Webster, among others.

Pam Allyn

She is the author of the Your Child’s Writing Life (Penguin Avery), Pam Allyn’s Best Books for Boys: How To Engage Boys in Reading in Ways That Will Change Their Lives (Scholastic), What To Read When: The Books and Stories To Read With Your Child–And All The Best Times To Read Them (Penguin Avery), and Be Core Ready: Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards (Pearson).

Pony Pals

Pony Pals is a 44-book series of pony books written by Jeanne Betancourt and published by Scholastic.

Pukeko Pictures

Martin Baynton, co-owner and Executive Producer at Pukeko Pictures, is a writer and illustrator of children's books with over 30 titles published by major English and American houses including Walker Books, Penguin, Scholastic and Greenwillow.

Tony Glover

Glover is a prolific rock critic, having penned articles for the Little Sandy Review (1962–63), Sing Out! (1964–65), Hullabaloo/Circus (1968–71), Hit Parader (1968), Crawdaddy (1968), Eye (1968), Rolling Stone (1968–73), Junior Scholastic (1970), CREEM (1974–76), Request (1990–99), MNBLUES.COM (1999–present) and The Reader and City Pages.

Windows Multipoint Mouse

Today, various education ISVs and publishers around the world such as Scholastic and SIVECO Romania are developing and piloting applications built using the SDK.

YTMND

On July 17, 2007, Goldberg was sent a string of letters and phone calls from lawyers representing Scholastic threatening legal action if sites revealing spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were not removed, in response to several YTMNDs with scanned pages that Goldberg posted on the front page.