Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic
Type	Public (NASDAQ: SCHL)
Industry	Books, Printing and Publishing
Founded	1920
Founder	Maurice R. Robinson
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States ; Toronto, Ontario; Mexico City, Mexico ; London, England; Shanghai, China; Gurgaon, Haryana, India; Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; Buenos Aires Argentina; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Shiki, Saitama, Japan ; Seoul, South Korea
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Richard Robinson, CEO, Chairman, & President
Revenue	US$1.8493 billion (2009)
Net income	US$(14.3) million (2009)
Number of employees	9,100 (2009)
Website	scholastic.com

Scholastic (or Scholastic Inc.) is a global book publishing company known for making educational items for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and giving them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has the all the publishing rights to the Harry Potter book series in the United States.^[2]

Notable books

The 39 Clues
The Amazing Days Of Abby Hayes
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series
Animorphs
The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series
Alvin, Simon and Theodore
The Baby-sitters Club
Bananas (magazine)
Bionicle
Bone (colorized editions)
Captain Underpants series
Clifford the Big Red Dog (series)
Dynamite
Dynamath (magazine)
Freak the Mighty
Genny in a Bottle series
Ghostville Elementary series
The Ghost Hunter
Good Night, Sleep Tight
Guardians of Ga'hoole series
Goosebumps
Geronimo Stilton series
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Harry Potter series
History of My Back Yard series
I-Spy
Jigsaw Jones Mysteries
The Magic School Bus series
PLAY! Scholastic (magazine)
The Hunger Games
The Royal Diaries series
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition (annual)
Scholastic News (magazines)
Science World
Star Wars series
Sunfire series
The Scholastic Dictionary of Spelling
T*Witches
Warriors series
Wishbone series
Wow (magazine)

Criticism

Scholastic has been criticized for bad marketing to children. A large number of titles have strong media tie-ins and are considered short in literary and artistic merit by some people.^[3] Consumer groups have also said that Scholastic is selling too many toys and video games to children.