Carus Publishing is pleased to announce a licensing agreement with North Star Media Inc. North Star Media, in partnership with an educational publisher in China, will publish 40 bilingual textbooks for high school students using content from Caruss childrens magazines.
North Star Media has licensed more than 2,560 pages of content, published over the last 20 years, from six Carus publications, including APPLESEEDS, CALLIOPE, COBBLESTONE, FACES, ODYSSEY, and MUSE. In addition, North Star has licensed teachers guides that correlate to the content as well as corresponding photos or illustrations owned by Carus.
Selected material from the six magazines will be published as two series of books, with 20 books in each series. The two series will be World Culture and History and Science and Discovery. Each book will be 64 pages and printed with Simplified Chinese and English. The textbooks will be distributed in Mainland China, with an expected initial printing of 15,000 copies. The books will be published prior to September 2004
Discussions are on the way to develop a similar book series for middle school students using content from four Caruss publications: APPLESEEDS, CLICK, ASK, and MUSE.
Carus Publishing Company, based in Peru and Chicago, IL, and Peterborough, NH, is a publisher of fifteen high-quality magazines for children (APPLESEEDS, ASK, BABYBUG, CALLIOPE, CICADA, CLICK, COBBLESTONE, CRICKET, DIG, FACES, FOOTSTEPS, LADYBUG, MUSE, and ODYSSEY), childrens books, and books on religion and philosophy, including the New York Times best-selling Pop Culture and Philosophy series, such The Matrix and Philosophy and The Simpsons and Philosophy. For more information about Carus Publishing Company, contact Christina Hsieh, Vice President, Marketing, at chsieh@caruspub.com.
North Star Media, based in Davis, CA and Beijing, China, is an educational publishing company specializing in licensing quality educational materials from English publishers around the world and publishing translation/bilingual editions for China's K-12 school market. Leying Jiang is the co-founder and president. For more information, contact Leying Jiang, President at leying@northstarchina.com
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