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2. Big Little Book series - Wikipedia

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   The Big Little Books, first published during 1932 by the Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin, were small, compact books designed with a captioned illustration opposite each page of text. Other publishers, notably Saalfield, adopted this format after Whitman achieved success with its early titles, priced initially at 10¢ each, later ...

3. Whitman Publishing - Wikipedia

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   Whitman published the Big Little Books and Better Little Books. The early Big Little Books had print runs of 250,000 to 350,000 for each title, with no reprints. They also published illustrated card games including War, Hearts, Fish, Old Maid, and Crazy Eights. Coin and stamp collecting products. By the mid-1930s Whitman began a line of “coin ...

4. Western Publishing - Wikipedia

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   Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, Western published a wide range of children's books (puzzle books, coloring books, Tell-a-Tale books, Big Little Books), mostly under the Golden Books and Whitman Publishing brand names. The Little Golden Books was a very popular series. Lucille Ogle helped develop the format for these low-priced books, which ...

5. Alice Hoffman - Wikipedia

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   Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic , irony , and non-standard romances and relationships.

6. Phantom novels - Wikipedia

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   The first attempt at non-comic strip Phantom stories, were published by Whitman Publishing Company as Big Little Books, which featured illustrated pulp-adaptations of a few comic strip stories by Lee Falk and Ray Moore. The first Big Little Book with the Phantom was published in 1936, and the last in 1947. The books published were: The Phantom

7. Practical Magic (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Practical Magic is a 1995 novel by Alice Hoffman. The book was adapted into the 1998 film of the same name.Hoffman has since published two prequel novels – The Rules of Magic (2017) and Magic Lessons (2020), as well as one sequel – The Book of Magic (2021).

8. What the sale of a major American book publisher means for ...

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   Book publisher Simon & Schuster's sale to investment firm KKR is novel in many ways, but also part of a long-term trend. History tells us to expect the unexpected.

9. The Buccaneers (1956 TV series) - Wikipedia

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   The Buccaneers (1958) was a Whitman “Big Little Book”: 276 pages half of them are Russ Manning illustrations, the rest are a story written by Alice Sankey. The adventure story sends Captain Dan Tempest (a buccaneer, or privateer, unofficially serving the English king) and his crew of ex-pirates, after the notorious Blackbeard, and Dan's ...