Yearling ― 50th Anniversary Collection

Eight children’s classics from yesterday and today together in a collectible box set! Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of “the imprint that has set the standard for children’s trade paperback publishing.”

The books you remember and the stories you'll never forget come together in a collectible box set in honor of the Yearling imprint’s fiftieth anniversary. The box set features:

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Holes by Louis Sachar
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm

Together, the books have won three Newbery Medals, one National Book Award, one Coretta Scott King Award, countless state awards, and numerous spots on bestseller lists. It's the classics of yesterday and today, and the memories of tomorrow.

NORTON JUSTER is the author of a number of highly acclaimed children’s books, including The Phantom Tollbooth, which The New Yorker called a "classic," and The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award–winning film. 

WILSON RAWLS is the author of Where the Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys. Since its publication more than fifty years ago, Where the Red Fern Grows has assumed the status of a classic and has been made into a widely acclaimed motion picture.

LOUIS SACHAR is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award. His latest book for young readers is the New York Times bestseller Fuzzy Mud.

CHRISTOPHER PAUL CURTIS is the bestselling author of Bud, Not Buddy, winner of the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award, among other honors. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, was also singled out for many awards, among them a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor. 

JEANNE BIRDSALL is the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of the Penderwicks series, which includes The Penderwicks, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, and The Penderwicks in Spring.

REBECCA STEAD is the author of When You Reach Me, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction, and Liar & Spy, which was also a New York Times bestseller, won the Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction, and was on multiple state master lists and best of the year lists. She is also the author of First Light, which was nominated for many state awards. 

CHRIS GRABENSTEIN is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics, and The Island of Dr. Libris. He has also coauthored numerous page-turners with James Patterson, including the I Funny, House of Robots, and Treasure Hunters series, and Jacky Ha-Ha. Look for his latest hilarious novel, Welcome to Wonderland: Home Sweet Motel, the first in a new series.

JENNIFER L. HOLM is the New York Times bestselling author of three Newbery Honor books, including Penny from Heaven and Turtle in Paradise. Her book The Fourteenth Goldfish was a New York Times bestseller and has been nominated for fifteen state awards and counting. Look for her latest novel, Full of Beans, set in the same world as the acclaimed Turtle in Paradise.