Don Sturdy is a fictional character in the Don Sturdy series of 15 American children's adventure novels published between 1925 and 1935 by Grosset & Dunlap . The books were written by Victor Appleton , a house name used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate . They were illustrated by Walter S. Rogers . The actual writer for all but one of the books was John W. Duffield. The remaining book, Don Sturdy In The Land Of Giants, or, Captives Of the Savage Patagonians (1930), was written by Howard Roger Garis .
23-507: Grosset & Dunlap bound the book series in cloth-over-board covers, and the series continued to be sold in the United States until at least 1940. This series appears to be the second Stratemeyer Syndicate series' to be reprinted outside the United States, where it was originally published; the first series book being the first book in the Ted Scott series. An exact date of first printing
46-452: A gondola and just wandered in & out & around until 8 o'clock. It, no doubt, sounds utterly foolish at my age to be so enthusiastic about everything, but, my dear, I am living in a state of thrills." Cady was very prolific, illustrating over 70 years for such publications as St. Nicholas Magazine , Boys' Life , The Saturday Evening Post , Ladies' Home Journal , Good Housekeeping and Country Gentleman . He illustrated
69-576: A Scare ( c. 1912 ), The Adventures of Reddy Fox (1913), and Buster Bear Invites Old Mr. Toad to Dine ( c. 1914 ). The series continued into the 1950s with At Paddy the Beaver's Pond (1950), followed by the reprint The Animal World of Thornton Burgess (1962). After his escalating success through the 1920s, Cady and his wife Melinna decided to take an extended vacation. Touring Europe for two months in 1931, they visited London, Paris, Avignon, Brussels, Arles, Amsterdam, Rome, and Venice. In
92-426: A letter to Harrison's mother, Melinna detailed their adventures: "So far I like Paris as a place to live better than any other city.... The shops, the museums with the great works of art.... The Follies !!! and on and on. Venice is filled with charm & great beauty & romance yet back of it all, I could imagine in time one might feel the past tragedy of the place. Every afternoon at 4, Harrison & I started in
115-425: A new paperback publisher, Ace Books . Filmways sold Grosset & Dunlap to G. P. Putnam's Sons when Orion Pictures acquired Filmways in 1982. In 1978, the company drew a great deal of attention with its publication of RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon . The preparation of the book was alluded to briefly in the 2008 Oscar-nominated film Frost/Nixon , which chronicled and dramatized a series of interviews with
138-662: A supplement to Harper's Young People (signed Walter H. Cady ). Harrison was 18 when his father was killed in Boston. He moved to New York City and within a year found work as an illustrator with the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper. His salary of $ 10 a week made it possible for him to support his mother; the two lived in a Greenwich Village cold-water flat . He stayed at the Brooklyn Eagle for four years, while also freelancing to other publications. Cady's first published comic strip
161-499: A year, including licensed children's books for such properties as Miss Spider , Strawberry Shortcake , Super Why! , Charlie and Lola , Nova the Robot , Weebles , Bratz , The Wiggles , Sonic X , and Atomic Betty . Grosset & Dunlap also publishes Dick and Jane children's books and, through Platt & Munk, The Little Engine That Could . The company was founded in 1898 by Alexander Grosset and George T. Dunlap. It
184-544: Is unknown, as the earlier copy of Big Snake Hunters doesn't have a printing or copyright date inside. Only two Don Sturdy titles were printed in Britain (the other being The Desert of Mystery ). Two British forms of The Big Snake Hunters are known to exist, both printed by The Children's Press. One is from the 1930s and another with different cover art from 1953. The 15 books in the Don Sturdy series were originally published in
207-561: The Queen Silver-Bell series by Frances Hodgson Burnett . In addition to his extensive illustrating of others' books, Cady also authored several books with his own illustrations, including his Butternut Hill series (1929), Johnny Funny-Bunny's Picnic Party (1928) and Spring Moving Day (1928). When he retired in 1948, Vincent Fago took over the Peter Rabbit strip. Avon published Cady's Peter Rabbit Comics in 1947. His work
230-716: The Stratemeyer Syndicate (currently owned by Simon & Schuster ). After George T. Dunlap retired in 1944, Grosset & Dunlap was sold to a consortium of Random House ; Little, Brown ; Harper and Brothers ; Scribners ; and the Book-of-the-Month Club . Grosset & Dunlap launched the paperback reprint house Bantam Books in 1945 in cooperation with Curtis Publishing Company . In 1954, Grosset & Dunlap acquired McLoughlin Brothers . Grosset & Dunlap had an initial public offering in 1961, by which time
253-581: The Burgess books as hardcovers with dust jackets from 1949 to 1957, then as pink hardcovers without dust jackets from about 1962 into the 1970s. They issued them with library bindings in 1977. In most cases, the latest date printed anywhere in the book was from the early 1940s, so the Grosset & Dunlap editions are today often mistaken for being older than they are. In the 1980s, Little, Brown, owned by Penguin, canceled their permission for Grosset & Dunlap to publish
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#1732855874113276-572: The Burgess books. For most of the titles, the Harrison Cady illustrations commissioned by Grosset & Dunlap have never been published since then. An exception is the 2000 Dover edition of The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver , which has all of them (the illustrations in most of the Dover editions are not the Grosset & Dunlap commissions). In 1968, Grosset & Dunlap was acquired by conglomerate National General , run by Gene Klein . National General
299-466: The Red Squirrel ) in 1949. The original Little, Brown editions had plates of high quality paper for the illustrations, but the Grosset & Dunlap editions were to print the illustrations on the same stock as the text. They commissioned the original artist, Harrison Cady , to recreate the illustrations as line drawings appropriate for that type of paper, and to create many additional illustrations. Where
322-670: The ex-president conducted by British television personality David Frost . Shortly after the aforementioned interviews aired to great publicity, the copy editor whom Grosset & Dunlap sent to San Clemente to work on the book with Nixon's staff was named as David Frost. Grosset & Dunlap also published a series of literary classics which they called the Illustrated Junior Library. This series, published with colorful illustrations, included such titles as Heidi , an expurgated edition of Gulliver's Travels , Swiss Family Robinson , The Boy's King Arthur (published under
345-636: The following order: Don Sturdy In the Tombs of Gold at Gutenberg [1] Grosset %26 Dunlap Grosset & Dunlap is a New York City -based publishing house founded in 1898. The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 and today is part of Penguin Random House through its subsidiary Penguin Group . In recent years, through the Penguin Group , they have published approximately 170 titles
368-490: The majority of the books published were children's books. In 1964, Grosset & Dunlap acquired full ownership of Bantam from Curtis. Grosset & Dunlap obtained permission from Little, Brown , to reprint Thornton Burgess 's many children's books, and began issuing the Bedtime Stories series (20 books originally published 1913–1919, including such titles as The Adventures of Reddy Fox and The Adventures of Chatterer
391-567: The original Little, Brown editions had six full-page illustrations, the Grosset & Dunlap had 14 (fourteen) full-page drawings, plus many smaller drawings placed throughout the text. Cady had matured as an artist in the decades since the original Little, Brown illustrations. The line drawings he did for Grosset & Dunlap are simpler than the illustrations he had made for Little, Brown, and are generally more charming. The original Little, Brown illustrations better convey Cady's remarkable vision for Burgess' creatures. Grosset & Dunlap published
414-746: The title King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table ), and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (a 1956 reprinting of the 1944 edition with new illustrations by Evelyn Copelman , and published under the title The Wizard of Oz ). Putnam merged with Penguin Group in 1996 In 2013, Penguin merged with Bertelsmann 's Random House , forming Penguin Random House . Today, Grosset & Dunlap's new juvenile series include Dish , Camp Confidential , Flirt , Katie Kazoo , Dragon Slayers' Academy , and Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver 's Hank Zipzer series. Harrison Cady Walter Harrison Cady (1877–1970)
437-478: Was Jolly Jumpers , which ran from 1912 to 1914 via the Publishers Press syndicate. His income increased considerably after Life editor John Ames Mitchell signed Cady as staff artist and cartoonist. This led to a long career as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, as well as numerous children's books , featuring both fantastic and realistic animal illustrations. Cady's Peter Rabbit comic strip, which
460-470: Was acquired by American Financial Group in 1973. In the 1970s and 1980s, the company's Charter Books (also known as Ace Charter) imprint published mystery fiction, most notably the Leslie Charteris series, The Saint . In 1974, film and television company Filmways bought the company from American Financial Group (Bantam was sold separately). During this time, Grosset & Dunlap acquired
483-533: Was an American illustrator and author, best known for his Peter Rabbit comic strip which he wrote and drew for 28 years. Cady was born in Gardner , Massachusetts , to a town selectman, Edwin Cady, who ran a local general store. His father fostered a love of nature and encouraged his art skills. Cady entered an apprenticeship with a local painter, Parker Perkins. His first publication came as early as 1894: an illustration in
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#1732855874113506-543: Was based on Thornton Burgess ' Peter Cottontail stories (as opposed to Beatrix Potter 's version) was launched by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate on August 15, 1920. He continued to write and draw the strip for almost three decades. Cady had a long association with Burgess, illustrating the writer's books, including Happy Jack , and his daily newspaper column, Bedtime Stories . Their partnership spanned five decades, beginning with Baby Possum Has
529-474: Was originally primarily a hardcover reprint house. In 1907, Grosset & Dunlap acquired Chatterton & Peck, who had a large children's list including the Stratemeyer Syndicate . Grosset & Dunlap is historically known for its photoplay editions and juvenile series books such as the Hardy Boys , Nancy Drew , The Bobbsey Twins , Tom Swift , Cherry Ames and other books from their long partnership with
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