The Chicken House

For the agricultural building, see chicken house.
The Chicken House
Parent companyScholastic
Founded2000; 24 years ago (2000)
FoundersBarry Cunningham and Rachel Hickman
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationFrome, Somerset
DistributionBounce Sales & Marketing (UK)[1]
Publication typesBooks
Fiction genresChildren's literature
Official websitewww.chickenhousebooks.com

The Chicken House is a publishing company owned by Scholastic Corporation, specialising in children's fiction.

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.

  1. ^ "Publishers". Bounce Sales & Marketing Ltd. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Chicken House : About Us". Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013. The Story So Far, retrieved 18 June 2012