What series by Tad Hills was awarded by a Fortune 500 company, a bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets?
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Tad Hills Tad Hills (born April 1, 1963 in Needham, Massachusetts) is an American children’s book author and illustrator. His first picture book, "Duck & Goose", a "New York Times" bestseller and ALA Notable Book for Children, is about a pair of feathered friends. In a starred review, "Kirkus Reviews" wrote that “readers will likely hope to see more of this adorable odd couple”—a hope that was realized. The Duck & Goose series now contains nine titles, including "Duck, Duck, Goose"; "Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin"; and "Duck & Goose, It’s Time for Christmas". Hills is also the author of "How Rocket Learned to Read", winner of the Irma Simonton Black & James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature and a "New York Times" bestseller. A sequel, "Rocket Writes a Story", was published to similar acclaim, debuting at #1 on the "New York Times Best Seller List" and named as a top picture book of the year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, "Publishers Weekly", and "School Library Journal".
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Barnes &amp; Noble Barnes & Noble, Inc., is a Fortune 500 company, the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products. As of July 29, 2017, the company operates 632 retail stores in all 50 U.S. states.
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Sandhills Publishing Company Sandhills Publishing Company is a privately held Americanpublisher that produces trade publications and consumer magazines. The company primarily serves the transportation, agriculture, aircraft, heavy machinery, and technology industries. Its trade publications include "TractorHouse", "Machinery Trader," "Machinery Trader Auction Results," "Truck Paper," "RentalYard," and "AuctionTime," in addition to "Controller", "Executive Controller", and "Charter Hub." Each print publication also has a companion website.
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Digest size Digest size is a magazine size, smaller than a conventional or "journal size" magazine but larger than a standard paperback book, approximately 5+1/2 x , but can also be 5+3/8 x and 5+1/2 x . These sizes have evolved from the printing press operation end. Some printing presses refer to digest-size as a "catalog size," such as that used by Avon Products when selling house to house. The digest format was considered to be a convenient size for readers to tote around or to leave on the coffee table within easy reach.
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Exclusive Books Exclusive Books is one of South Africa's largest bookselling chains with stores throughout South Africa, and one store in Gaborone, Botswana. As of 1 December 2013, the chain is owned and operated by a private group of investors. It was previously owned by the Times Media Group (TMG), after TMG took control of Avusa.
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St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York City. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers. bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints.
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The Magisterium Series The Magisterium Series is intended to be a 5-book series for young adults. It is a fantasy series co-authored by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare. It is their first collaboration. The series was acquired by Scholastic in April 2012. The first book, "The Iron Trial", was published in September 2014, and hit third on the New York Times Middle Grade Bestseller List. The series is set in an underground school where mages train apprentices to control the elements. The books are illustrated by Scott Fischer. The main characters are Callum Hunt, Tamara Rajavi, Aaron Stewart, Master Rufus, and Havoc, Call's pet.
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Buffalo West Wing Buffalo West Wing is a book written by Julie Hyzy and published by Berkley Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) on 4 January 2011, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2012.
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A Thousand Bones A Thousand Bones is a book written by P. J. Parrish and published by Pocket Books (owned by Simon & Schuster) on 1 January 2007, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2008.
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Book publishing in India Book publishing in India refers to the activity around the process book creation within the country of India, a growing field in recent years, which makes the country the fifth-largest (or sixth-largest, by some estimates) book publishing nation in the world. While there is optimism about the growth of Indian publishing (specially in urban India), the sector is also afflicted by a lack of accurate figures about books published, knowledge shared and revenues earned.The major players in Higher Education are Prentice Hall of India, Wiley India, New Age, Viva Books, TMH , Jaico and Manakin Press.
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Bluffer's Guides The Bluffer's Guides are a collection of humorous pocket-sized guidebooks, written by experts and offering readers the opportunity to pass off appropriated knowledge as their own on a variety of subjects. The series has sold five million copies worldwide.
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Applewood Books Applewood Books is a book publishing company founded by Phil Zuckerman in 1976. They specialize in publishing exacting recreations of historic books, including complex reprints of children's art and pop-up books and other books published by methods which duplicate antique publishing techniques. They have more than 2000 titles in print. In recent years, the company has been working to increase the number of reprints it publishes. In 2007, the company published over 300 titles.
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Nikkei Business Publications Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. (株式会社日経BP , "Kabushiki-gaisha Nikkei Bī Pī" ) , commonly known as Nikkei BP (日経BP社 , Nikkei Bī Pī sha ) , is a book and magazine publisher based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was established as "Nikkei McGraw-Hill, Inc.", a joint venture of Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) and McGraw-Hill in 1969, and later it became to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Nikkei.
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Forbes Forbes ( ) is an American business magazine. Published bi-weekly, it features original articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. "Forbes" also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics, and law. Its headquarters is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Primary competitors in the national business magazine category include "Fortune" and "Bloomberg Businessweek". The magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and rankings of world's top companies (the Forbes Global 2000). Another well-known list by the magazine is The World's Billionaires list.
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Shenzhen Book City Shenzhen Book City (Chinese: 深圳书城) is a bookstore which claims to be the largest in the world. The store also includes multiple restaurants and non-book-related shops, as well as a section devoted to non-Chinese books. Overall, Shenzhen Book City contains over 3 million books. Story-telling competitions are held every Sunday for children 4–8 years old.
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Noel Streatfeild Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE (24 December 1895 –11 September 1986), was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series. Random House, the U.S. publisher of the 1936 "Ballet Shoes" (1936), published some of Streatfeild's subsequent children's books using the word "Shoes" in their titles, to capitalize on the popularity of Ballet Shoes; thus "Circus Shoes", "Party Shoes" (in Britain, "Party Frock"). She won the third annual Carnegie Medal for "The Circus Is Coming", also published as "Circus Shoes". She was a member of the historic Streatfeild family.
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Stackpole Books Stackpole Books is an trade publishing company in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It was founded by E. J. Stackpole Jr. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1930 and was moved to its current headquarters in 1993. Stackpole publishes nonfiction books in the areas of crafts, outdoors, regional and travel, military history, and military reference. The current CEO is M. David Detweiler, and the Publisher and Editorial Director is Judith Schnell.
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West 49 West 49 Inc., is a Canadian specialty retailer of fashion and apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment related to the action sports lifestyle. The retailer operates more than 100 stores across the country and is Canada's largest skateboard and snowboard chain. In 2005, it was ranked the 82nd fastest growing company in Canada. West 49 Inc. operates stores under several names: West 49, Billabong, Element Canada, and Amnesia/Arsenic. On November 4, 2013, YM Inc. was confirmed as the new parent company of the retail chain.
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Foyles W & G Foyle Ltd. (usually called simply Foyles) is a chain of book shops with seven locations but is best known for its flagship store in Charing Cross Road, London. Foyles was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest bookshop in terms of shelf area (30 miles/50 kilometres) and number of titles on display. In the past, it was famed for its anachronistic, eccentric and sometimes infuriating business practices; so much so that it was a tourist attraction. It has since modernised, opened new branches and established an on-line store.
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Jim Fergus Jim Fergus (born 1950) is an American author. He has a degree in English from Colorado College and has worked as a tennis teacher and full-time freelance writer. His first novel was "One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd", which won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and sold over 250,000 copies in the United States. The French translation was on the French bestseller list for 57 weeks and has sold over 400,000 copies in that country.
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Harlequin Enterprises Harlequin Enterprises Limited (known simply as "Harlequin") is a Toronto-based company that publishes series romance and women's fiction. Harlequin was owned by the Torstar Corporation, the largest newspaper publisher in Canada, from 1981 to 2014. It was then purchased by News Corp and is now a division of HarperCollins.
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Donald Newhouse Donald Edward Newhouse (born 1929) is an American heir, business magnate and philanthropist. Together with his brother Samuel, he owns Advance Publications, founded by their late father in 1922, whose properties include Condé Nast (publisher of such magazines as "Vogue", "Vanity Fair", "The New Yorker", etc.), dozens of newspapers across the United States (including "The Star-Ledger", "The Plain Dealer", "The Oregonian", etc.), cable company Bright House Networks and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications. According to "Forbes", with an estimated net worth of $10.5 billion and the 56th richest person in the United States. He resides in New York City.