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{{Infobox company
|company_name =Scholastic
|logo = 
|company_type =[[wikt:public|Public]] ({{nasdaq|SCHL}})
|foundation =1920
|founder =Maurice R. Robinson
|location = [[New York City, New York]], [[United States]] <br />[[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]<br />[[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]] <br /> [[London]], [[England]]<br />[[Shanghai]], [[China]]<br />[[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]], [[India]]<br>[[Sydney]], [[Australia]]<br />[[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]]<br>[[Buenos Aires]] [[Argentina]]<br />[[San Juan, Puerto Rico]]<br />[[Shiki, Saitama]], [[Japan]] <br /> [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]]
|area_served = [[World]]wide
|key_people =Richard Robinson, [[Chief executive officer|CEO]], [[Chairman]], & [[President]]
|industry = [[Books]], [[Printing]] and [[Publishing]]
|revenue = {{decrease}} [[United States dollar|US$]]1.8493 billion (2009)<ref name="annual_repot_2009">{{cite web|url=http://investor.scholastic.com/common/download/download.cfm?companyid=ABEA-28S6DN&fileid=312327&filekey=14C7CE45-2A57-4A4D-8D25-8E4AE4729D75&filename=AnnualReport2009.pdf|title=Annual Report 2009|publisher=}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|net_income = {{profit}} [[United States dollar|US$]](14.3) million (2009)<ref name="annual_repot_2009" />
|num_employees = 9,100 (2009)<ref name="annual_repot_2009" />
|homepage = [http://www.scholastic.com/ scholastic.com]}}
'''Scholastic''' (or '''Scholastic Inc.''') is a [[global]] [[book]] [[publisher|publishing]] [[corporation|company]] known for making educational items for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and giving them by mail order and via [[Book sales club|book clubs]] and book fairs. It also has the all the publishing rights to the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' book series in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SCHL/profile/|title=SCHL Profile - SCHOLASTIC CORP Stock - Yahoo Finance|website=finance.yahoo.com}}</ref>

==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)|Bananas]]'' ([[magazine]])
*''[[Bionicle]]''
*''[[Bone (comics)|Bone]]'' (colorized editions)
*''[[Captain Underpants]]'' series
*''[[Clifford the Big Red Dog]]'' ([[book series|series]])
*''[[Dynamite (magazine)|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 (book)|The Hunger Games]]''
*''[[The Royal Diaries]]'' series
*''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition]]'' (annual)
*''[[Scholastic News]]'' (magazines)
*''[[Science World (magazine)|Science World]]''
*''[[Star Wars]]'' series
*''[[Sunfire (series)|Sunfire]]'' series
*''[[The Scholastic Dictionary of Spelling]]''
*''[[T*Witches]]''
*''[[Warriors]]'' series
*''[[Wishbone (TV series)|Wishbone]]'' series
*''[[Wow (magazine)|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/11/20/taking_consumerism_out_of_school_book_fairs/|title=Taking consumerism out of school book fairs|first=Barbara F.|last=Meltz|newspaper=Boston.com |date=20 November 2006|publisher=|via=The Boston Globe}}</ref> Consumer groups have also said that Scholastic is selling too many toys and video games to children.
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==References==
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==Other websites==
*{{Official|http://www.scholastic.com}}
*[http://www.tomsnyder.com Official website on Tom Snyder Productions, a division of Scholastic]{{Dead link|date=March 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*[http://www.soup2nuts.tv Official website of Soup2Nuts, an animation studio division of Scholastic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307063443/http://www.soup2nuts.tv/ |date=2011-03-07 }}
*[http://www.klutz.com/ Official website of Klutz Press, a division of Scholastic]
*[http://www.TeachersPayTeachers.com/ Official website of TeachersPayTeachers.com]
*[http://www.artandwriting.org/The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*[http://onourmindsatscholastic.blogspot.com Blog: On Our Minds At Scholastic]

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