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Walden Pond Press, established in 2008, is the co-publishing venture of film production company Walden Media and book publisher HarperCollins. The venture operates as an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books and its logo, a skipping stone on Walden Pond, is derivative of the Walden Media logo.

Walden Pond Press publishes 'middle-grade classics'. For example, York (published May 2017) by author, Laura Ruby is one of the best reviewed children’s books of 2017, and is currently in film development with Walden Media.

Walden Pond Press publishes a small, targeted list of middle grade book titles every year. r. Notable titles include Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce (2010), The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander (2011), Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu (2011), The Hero’s Guide series by Christopher Healy (2012-2015), Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson (2016), and National Book Award Longlist winners The Real Boy by Anne Ursu (2013) and Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder (2017)