The Chicken House
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For the agricultural building, see chicken house.
The Chicken House is a publishing company owned by Scholastic Corporation, specialising in children's fiction.
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Parent company | Scholastic |
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Founded | 2000; 24 years ago (2000) |
Founders | Barry Cunningham and Rachel Hickman |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | Frome, Somerset |
Distribution | Bounce Sales & Marketing (UK)[1] |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | Children's literature |
Official website | www |
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Founded in 2000 by Barry Cunningham and Rachel Hickman as Chicken House Publishing, it was bought by Scholastic in 2005. It has introduced many new successful authors, including Cornelia Funke, Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, Kevin Brooks, Lucy Christopher, Rachel Ward, M. G. Leonard, Rachel Grinti, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Jasbinder Bilan.[2] It is the UK publisher of the multi-million bestselling The Maze Runner series.