Trade Press Releases

Scholastic to Publish Activism Book by Marley Dias, 12-Year-Old #1000BlackGirlBooks Founder, in Spring 2018

New York, NY—February 2, 2017—Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, has acquired world rights to an activism book written by Marley Dias, the 12 year-old social activist behind #1000BlackGirlBooks—an international movement to collect and donate children’s books that feature Black girls as the lead character.

Scholastic To Publish Updated Edition of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

New York – January 5, 2017 – Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, will publish an updated edition of the bestselling and collectible companion book to the Harry Potter books, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, with a new foreword by J.K. Rowling, writing as Newt Scamander, and a new cover by Headcase Design on March 14, 2017. The book will be published simultaneously with Bloomsbury UK and the Pottermore eBook edition.

Mindy Stockfield Named Senior Vice President of Marketing, Scholastic Trade Publishing

Contact:
Kyle Good
kgood@scholastic.com
212-343-4563

New York, NY (November 8, 2016) — Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced the appointment of Mindy Stockfield as Senior Vice President, Marketing, Creative and Multiplatform, Trade Publishing, effective December 1, 2016. She will report to Ellie Berger, President, Scholastic Trade Publishing.

Scholastic Announces Contest to Discover the Next Graphix Author-Artists

Graphix Imprint to Publish Debut Children’s Graphic Novels by Contest Winners

Flash Mob of Harry Potter Fans – "Muggle Mob" – Stops Traffic at Scholastic Headquarters in New York City

Photos and Video Released from the Scholastic “Muggle Mob,” in Anticipation of the July 31st Publication of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two

Scholastic to Publish Philip Pullman's First Graphic Novel

David Fickling Books and Graphix Imprints to bring The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship to North American Readers

Scholastic Acquires Four Books By Nine-Year-Old Reporter Hilde Lysiak

Hilde Cracks the Case Series to Launch in Fall 2017 As part of
Branches Line of Early Chapter Books

Scholastic to Publish New Edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2017

Scholastic is pleased to announce the publication of a new edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2017. Publishing on March 14, 2017, the book will contain a new foreword from J.K. Rowling, a new cover design and original illustrations and doodles by J.K. Rowling throughout. Originally released in paperback by Scholastic in 2001, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by fictitious author Newt Scamander (a character from J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World), was published to benefit Comic Relief, a U.K.-based charity organization.

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