Walden Pond Press


Walden Pond Press, established in 2008, is the co-publishing venture of film production company Walden Media and book publisher HarperCollins.
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.

Background

Walden Pond Press is publishes the next generation of middle grade classics fast paced, funny, engaging, compulsively readable stories by well-established authors and new talent.
The two marked characteristics of the imprint are its high quality titles and its embrace of a multi-platform approach to storytelling. For example, York by award-winning author, Laura Ruby is one of the best reviewed children’s books of 2017,
and is currently in film development with Walden Media.

Audience

Walden Pond Press publishes a small, targeted list of middle grade book titles every year. r. Notable titles include Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander, Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu, The Hero’s Guide series by Christopher Healy, Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson, and National Book Award Longlist winners The Real Boy by Anne Ursu and Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder

Prior Publishing History

Walden Pond Press is Walden Media’s second co-publishing venture with a major US publishing house. From 2004 -2008, Walden Media worked across all imprints at Penguin Young Readers Group publishing the Newbery Honor-winning Savvy by first-time author Ingrid Law, Mike Lupica’s The Comeback Kids series, Lauren St. John’s The White Giraffe series, and Michael Reisman’s Simon Bloom series among other titles.
Both Savvy and Simon Bloom: The Gravity Keeper are in film development at Walden Media.

Published Books