Walden Pond Press

Walden Pond Press, established in 2008, is the co-publishing venture of film production company Walden Media and book publisher HarperCollins.^[1] The venture operates as an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books, and its logo, a skipping stone on Walden Pond, is derivative of the Walden Media logo.

Walden Pond Press publishes "middle-grade classics".^[2] For example, Root Magic (2021) by Eden Royce^[3] and The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy (2021) by Anne Ursu^[4] were both published by Walden Media.

Walden Pond Press publishes a small, targeted list of middle grade book titles every year. Notable titles include Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce (2010); The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander (2011); Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu (2011); The Hero’s Guide series by Christopher Healy (2012–2015); Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson (2016); National Book Award longlist nominees The Real Boy by Anne Ursu (2013) and Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder (2017); A Boy Called Bat and sequels by Elana K. Arnold (2017–2020); York: The Shadow Cipher and sequels by Laura Ruby (2019–2021); Love Sugar Magic and sequels by Anna Meriano (2018–2020); and A Perilous Journey of Danger & Mayhem: The Dastardly Plot and sequels by Christopher Healy (2018–2020), among others.

Walden Pond Press is Walden Media's second co-publishing venture with a major US publishing house. From 2004 to 2008 Walden Media worked across all imprints at Penguin Young Readers Group, publishing the Newbery Honor-winning^[5] Savvy by first-time author Ingrid Law (Dial/Walden Media), Mike Lupica's The Comeback Kids series (Philomel/Walden Media), Lauren St John's The White Giraffe series (Dial/Walden Media), and Michael Reisman's Simon Bloom series (Dutton/Walden Media), among other titles.^[6][7]

The publisher has published books by authors including Paul Adam, Steven Knight, Anne Ursu, Kevin Emerson, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, John David Anderson, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Elana K. Arnold, Laura Ruby, and Laurel Snyder.^{[citation needed]}

• http://www.walden.com/books