Walden Pond Press, established in 2008 and located in Boston, Massachusetts and New York City, New York, is the co-publishing venture of film production company Walden Media

Walden Media

Walden Media is a children's film production and publishing company best known as the producers of The Chronicles of Narnia series. Its films are based on notable classic or award-winning children's literature, compelling biographies or historical events, documentaries and some original...

 and book publisher HarperCollins

HarperCollins

HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...

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The venture operates as an imprint of HarperCollins

HarperCollins

HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...

 Children’s Books and its logo, a skipping stone on Walden Pond

Walden Pond

Walden Pond is a 31-metre-deep lake in Massachusetts . It is in area and around, located in Concord, Massachusetts, in the United States...

, is derivative of the Walden Media

Walden Media

Walden Media is a children's film production and publishing company best known as the producers of The Chronicles of Narnia series. Its films are based on notable classic or award-winning children's literature, compelling biographies or historical events, documentaries and some original...

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Background

Walden Pond Press is publishing the next generation of middle grade books -- fast paced, funny, engaging, compulsively readable stories by well-established authors and new talent.
The two marked characteristics of the imprint are its high quality titles and its embrace of a multi-platform approach to storytelling. For example, Cosmic (published January 2010) by author and screenwriter, Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell Boyce

-Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...

 is one of the best reviewed children’s books of 2010,
and is currently in film development with Walden Media

Walden Media

Walden Media is a children's film production and publishing company best known as the producers of The Chronicles of Narnia series. Its films are based on notable classic or award-winning children's literature, compelling biographies or historical events, documentaries and some original...

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Audience

Walden Pond Press publishes a small, targeted list of middle grade book titles every year. In addition to Cosmic, during its 2010 launch the imprint published The Billionaire's Curse: The Archer Legacy Book 1 by Richard Newsome, The Last Words of Will Wolfkin by Steven Knight

Steven Knight

Steven Knight is a British screenwriter. Knight has written scripts for numerous British television programmes such as the British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, BBC's Commercial Breakdown, The Detectives and others. However, he is best known for screenplays he wrote for films Dirty...

, Max Cassidy: Escape from Shadow Island by Paul Adam, Finding Danny by Linzi Glass, and the acclaimed Guys Read

Guys Read

Guys Read is a literary organization founded in 2001 by children's book author Jon Scieszka to promote literacy in men and boys. Citing psychological and biological studies concerning the physical, mental, and emotional growth of adolescent males in comparison to their female counterparts, the...

: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka was born September 8, 1954 in Flint, Michigan is an American author of children's literature, best known for his collaborations with illustrator Lane Smith. He is also a nationally recognized reading advocate, and in early 2008 was named the National Ambassador for Young People's...

 with stories by Jeff Kinney

Jeff Kinney

Jeffrey Bruce "Jeff" Kinney is a former professional football player, a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills for five seasons in the NFL. At 6'2" and 215 lb., Kinney was selected by the Chiefs in the first round of the 1972 NFL Draft with the 23rd overall pick...

, Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer is an Irish author. He is most famous as the author of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also written other successful books. His novels have been compared to the works of J. K. Rowling...

, Adam Rex

Adam Rex

Adam Rex is an American illustrator and author of children's books living in Tucson, Arizona.- Career :Adam Rex received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona. He has contributed illustrations to Magic: The Gathering and other fantasy art and has illustrated several children's books...

, and Kate DiCamillo

Kate DiCamillo

Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo is an American children's author. She is known for the Newbery Medal-winning book The Tale of Despereaux, the Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, and the Mercy Watson series, plus numerous other award-winning and honored books.-Early life:Born in...

, among other well-known authors. Funny Business is the first title in the Guys Read

Guys Read

Guys Read is a literary organization founded in 2001 by children's book author Jon Scieszka to promote literacy in men and boys. Citing psychological and biological studies concerning the physical, mental, and emotional growth of adolescent males in comparison to their female counterparts, the...

 Library, a series of titles connected to Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka was born September 8, 1954 in Flint, Michigan is an American author of children's literature, best known for his collaborations with illustrator Lane Smith. He is also a nationally recognized reading advocate, and in early 2008 was named the National Ambassador for Young People's...

’s Guys Read

Guys Read

Guys Read is a literary organization founded in 2001 by children's book author Jon Scieszka to promote literacy in men and boys. Citing psychological and biological studies concerning the physical, mental, and emotional growth of adolescent males in comparison to their female counterparts, the...

 initiative, a web-based literacy program for boys to help them to become self-motivated, lifelong readers.

Walden Pond Press’s 2011 titles include The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander (published February 2011), Juniper Berry by M.P. Kozlowsky (publishing April 2011), The Emerald Casket: The Archer Legacy Book 2 by Richard Newsome (publishing May 2011), Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

Anne Ursu

Anne Ursu is an American author based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her newest work, Breadcrumbs, a middle grade novel to be published by Walden Pond Press, will be released September 27, 2011...

 (publishing October 2011), and Guys Read

Guys Read

Guys Read is a literary organization founded in 2001 by children's book author Jon Scieszka to promote literacy in men and boys. Citing psychological and biological studies concerning the physical, mental, and emotional growth of adolescent males in comparison to their female counterparts, the...

: Thriller edited by Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka was born September 8, 1954 in Flint, Michigan is an American author of children's literature, best known for his collaborations with illustrator Lane Smith. He is also a nationally recognized reading advocate, and in early 2008 was named the National Ambassador for Young People's...

 (publishing September 2011) with stories by James Patterson

James Patterson

James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...

, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written over fifty books, including novels and nonfiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times...

, Gennifer Choldenko

Gennifer Choldenko

Gennifer Choldenko is a Newbery Honor-winning American writer of popular books for children and adolescents.-Early life:Gennifer Choldenko is a native of Santa Monica, California. She is the youngest of four siblings: two sisters and one brother...

, and among other prominent authors (published September 2011).

Prior Publishing History

Walden Pond Press is Walden Media

Walden Media

Walden Media is a children's film production and publishing company best known as the producers of The Chronicles of Narnia series. Its films are based on notable classic or award-winning children's literature, compelling biographies or historical events, documentaries and some original...

’s second co-publishing venture with a major US publishing house. From 2004 -2008, Walden Media

Walden Media

Walden Media is a children's film production and publishing company best known as the producers of The Chronicles of Narnia series. Its films are based on notable classic or award-winning children's literature, compelling biographies or historical events, documentaries and some original...

 worked across all imprints at Penguin Young Readers Group

Penguin Group

The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the largest in the world , having overtaken Random House in 2009. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations...

 publishing the Newbery

Newbery

- People :* Chantelle Newbery* Eduardo Newbery* John Newbery was a British publisher of books* Jorge Newbery* Jorge P Newbery* Linda Newbery* Robert Newbery...

 Honor winning Savvy

Savvy (novel)

Savvy is a 2008 children's fantasy novel by Ingrid Law aimed at children aged nine to twelve years. The American Library Association named Savvy a 2009 Newbery Honor Book.-Plot:...

by first-time author Ingrid Law (Dial/Walden Media), Mike Lupica

Mike Lupica

Michael Lupica is an American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on sports in the New York Daily News and his appearances on ESPN.-Biography:...

’s The Comeback Kids series (Philomel/Walden Media), Lauren St. John’s The White Giraffe

The White Giraffe

The White Giraffe is a children's novel by Lauren St. John first published in 2006. It is the first in the African Adventures series. This book was voted the winner of the 2008 East Sussex Children’s Book Award....

 series (Dial/Walden Media), and Michael Reisman’s Simon Bloom

Simon Bloom

Simon Bloom is a series of young adult novels by Michael Reisman, and the main character of the series. Set in the fictional town of Lawnville, New Jersey, it is about a boy who finds a book that lets him control the laws of physics...

 series (Dutton/Walden Media) among other titles.
Both Savvy

Savvy (novel)

Savvy is a 2008 children's fantasy novel by Ingrid Law aimed at children aged nine to twelve years. The American Library Association named Savvy a 2009 Newbery Honor Book.-Plot:...

and Simon Bloom

Simon Bloom

Simon Bloom is a series of young adult novels by Michael Reisman, and the main character of the series. Set in the fictional town of Lawnville, New Jersey, it is about a boy who finds a book that lets him control the laws of physics...

: The Gravity Keeper are in film development at Walden Media

Walden Media

Walden Media is a children's film production and publishing company best known as the producers of The Chronicles of Narnia series. Its films are based on notable classic or award-winning children's literature, compelling biographies or historical events, documentaries and some original...

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External links

• http://www.walden.com/books

• http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?TCId=100&ST=1&SKw=walden%20pond%20press

• http://www.guysread.com