Parachute
Publishing, L.L.C.
Parachute Publishing is a division of Parachute
Properties, an international company that comprises children’s,
teen, and adult publishing, entertainment, and consumer products.
Parachute Publishing provides full publishing services, from
manuscript delivery to finished books. Parachute creates and
produces original fiction (preschool, chapter books, middle-grade,
and young adult), nonfiction, and book-plus projects. In addition,
Parachute has a growing licensing program, creating and producing
books based on magazine, movie, TV, and video properties.
Parachute also publishes titles for the school market and
develops continuity programs. Parachute’s entertainment
division has created two hit TV series (one for Fox; the other
for the Kids’ WB!), a 4-D movie for Busch Gardens/SeaWorld,
an MGM-Disney theme park attraction, as well as videos, DVDs,
and more. Parachute created Goosebumps, the #1 book
series of all time (230 million copies sold; Guinness Book
of World Records, 2004) and Parachute's books have received
numerous Nickelodeon and Disney Adventures Kids's Choice Awards.
Officers: Joan Waricha, CEO/Chairman;
Jane Stine, Co-Chairman;
Susan Knopf, Senior Vice President/Director of Marketing
and Development; Susan Lurie, Senior Vice President/Publisher
New series launches in 2004: Confessions
of a Teen Nanny (HarperCollins Children's Books, 2004-2005);
The Dating Game (Little, Brown, 2004-2005); The
Party Room (Simon & Schuster, 2004-2005); R.L.
Stine's Mostly Ghostly (Random House, 2004-2005); Thomas
Kinkade: The Girls of Lighthouse Lane (HarperCollins Children's
Books, 2003); Mary-Kate and Ashley: Graduation Summer
(HarperEntertainment, 2004).
Ongoing series: The New Adventures of Mary-Kate
& Ashley series (HarperEntertainment, 2003); Two
of a Kind series (HarperEntertainment, 2004); R.L.
Stine's Dangerous Girls (HarperCollins, 2003) and Dangerous
Girls 2 (HarperCollins, 2004) and Beware! R.L. Stine
Picks His Favorite Scary Stories (HarperCollins, hc 2002,
pb 2004); Full House: Dear Michelle series (HarperEntertainment,
2003-2004); So Little Time series (HarperEntertainment,
2004); Thomas Kinkade: Cape Light and Home Song (Berkley,
2001-2004); The Nightmare Room series (HarperCollins,
2001); Mary-Kate & Ashley Starring-In . . . series
(HarperEntertainment, 2002).
