Star Farm Productions
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Star Farm Productions is an independent entertainment company that designs, creates, and develops children's entertainment properties simultaneously in multiple media.

Productions

Star Farm Productions is a Chicago, IL based children's entertainment company that focuses on creating intellectual properties across multiple media. Star Farm was co-founded by Trish Lindsay, Rick Carton and Sara Berliner.

Star Farm’s first property, Edgar & Ellen
Edgar & Ellen
Edgar & Ellen created by Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, is based on two twelve-year old twins who cause mischief and mayhem in their sickly sweet town, Nod's Limbs. The series currently contains seven books, a new companion guide: The Mischief Manual, and plans for more in the works...

, is a six book series launched in September 2003. A second series, "The Nodyssey" launched in 2007. All Edgar & Ellen books were written by Charles Ogden and illustrated by Rick Carton
Rick Carton
Rick Carton is a self-taught illustrator of the Edgar & Ellen book series, and co-founder of Star Farm Productions, a children's entertainment company. Currently, he lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA....

. The books are published in the US and Canada by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...

 and are available in 12 languages and 66 countries through 14 publishers.

Edgar & Ellen books

Original Series
  1. Rare Beasts September 2003
  2. Tourist Trap
    Tourist Trap
    Tourist Trap is a 1979 horror film directed by David Schmoeller, revolving around a group of friends who wind up stranded at Mr. Slausen's "museum," where the mannequins are very lifelike. Schmoeller co-wrote the script with J. Larry Carroll.-Plot:...

     May 2004
  3. Under Town September 2004
  4. Pet's Revenge released in the UK and AUS recently (appeared on American shelves in late 2006)
  5. High Wire released in the UK and AUS recently (appeared on American shelves in late 2006)
  6. Nod's Limbs 2007 (US) and late 2006 (UK, AUS)

The Nodyssey
  1. Hot Air
    Hot air
    Hot air in economics refers to the Assigned Amount Units credits given for the reduction of Green House Gas emissions among the former Soviet Bloc countries since 1990....

     2008 (US)
  2. Frost Bites 2008 (US)
  3. Split Ends 2009 (US) coming on Jan 27th

Bridge Books:
Mischief Manual 2007,
Graphic Novelty coming Spring 2009
Information about these books appears on http://www.edgarandellen.com

Interaction

With each book, Star Farm Productions seeks to engage kids online and through live workshops. The company led travel writing and animation workshops with kids across the country in 2005, and an online travel writing workshop is available at www.edgarandellen.com, a safe online community for kids. Also available is the Nod's Limbs Gazette, an online newsletter set in the world of Edgar and Ellen that includes kid-written articles. The company maintains a rigorous online privacy policy.

External links

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