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Penguin's English edition of Yuri Krimov's novel The Tanker "Derbent". The Second World War saw Penguin emerge as a national institution. Though it had no formal role in the war effort, it was integral to it thanks to the publication of such bestselling manuals as Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps and Aircraft Recognition, and supplying books for the services and British POWs.
Edward Preston "Teddy" Young, DSO, DSC & Bar (17 November 1913 – 28 January 2003), was a British graphic designer, submariner and publisher. In 1935, he joined the then new publishers Penguin Books and was responsible for designing the cover scheme used by Penguin for many years as well as drawing the original penguin logo.
Penguin Random House Limited [3] is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. [4] [5] Penguin Books was originally founded in 1935 [6] and Random House was founded in 1927. [7] It has more than 300 publishing imprints.
Penguin Books eventually decided that books in a series by the same author should have their own individual pictorial identification. Marber edited his original designs for Dorothy L. Sayers books by adding a small white figure, which he included in different postures on each cover. [8] Marber became tired of designing crime fiction book covers.
Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. [1] The imprint now belongs to Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
In 2019, Penguin Random House acquired British children's book publisher Little Tiger Group, including Tiger Tales Press, a U.S. subsidiary, and added it to Random House Children's Books. [30] Penguin Random House announced an agreement to purchase Boom! Studios in July 2024, where Boom! would become part of Random House Worlds. [31] [32]
Logo, 2014–2020. DK was founded in 1974 by Christopher Dorling and Peter Kindersley in London as a book packager. Its first book as a publisher in the UK was First Aid Manual for the British voluntary medical services. [3] In 1988, DK Inc. published the first Eyewitness book. DK Inc. began publishing in the United States in 1991.
Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.The new company was created by a merger that was finalised on 1 July 2013, with Bertelsmann initially owning 53% of the joint venture, and Pearson PLC initially owning the remaining 47%. [2]