Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Random House publishing research

Random House "ranks among the top five children's illustration companies in the UK". And "It's titles have won every single UK children's award". The company hires well known illustrators, and some notable ones who have worked, or are working at the company, include "Quentin Blake, Helen Cooper and Shirley Hughes.


Random House Children's Publishers UK< Image and info, all taken from this main site, the link that I provided above, is my reference point.

Random House also publish popular, and "bestselling writers" such as Jacqueline Wilson, Roald Dahl, Micheal Morpurgo, Phillip Pullman and Anne Fine.

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/division/about-random-house-childrens-publishers-uk < Here is a link to a portfolio of their published books.

Well known authors, such as R. L Stine, have had their books, published by Random House.

The companies main corporate workers, include Gail Rebuck, who holds the post, of chair of the penguin random house UK board. In 1982, she was one of the founder directors of Century publishing, and as a publishing director of their non-fiction list. With rapid success of this company, Century was acquired in 1989 by Random House Inc. Random House Inc is the world's largest English language trade publishing group. When Century was merged with Random house, Gail was quickly appointed chair, and chief executive in 1991, only two years after the merge.




Thomas.

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