Price Stern Sloan
Price Stern Sloan was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1960s to publish the Mad Libs series that Roger Price and Leonard Stern had concocted during their stint as writers for Steve Allen's Tonight Show. Along with their partner Larry Sloan, they expanded the company into a wide variety of publishing categories, especially children's books, novelty formats, and humor. The company had tremendous success with a number of proprietary brands, many of which flourish to this day; among them, Mad Libs, Wee Sing, Mr. Men and Little Miss and Serendipity.
The company was purchased by The Putnam Berkley Group in 1993, and in 1997 the offices were moved to New York.
With about seventy titles per year, Price Stern Sloan continues to publish its proprietary brands, as well as titles that fall into the preschool children's mass merchandise categories and movie tie-ins such as Happy Feet, Hairspray, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. PSS also publishes unauthorized biographies on the hottest rising stars in entertainment, music, and sports.
Among PSS authors are Pamela Beall, Sylvia Branzei, Roger Hargreaves, Susan Nipp, Leonard Stern, David Steinberg, and Salina Yoon.
