New York, NY (July 15, 2004) -- Scholastic announced today the appointment of veteran publishing executive, Kate Wilson as Group Managing Director of Scholastic UK effective September 1st. Kate is currently Managing Director of Macmillan Children's Books where she engineered significant success during her tenure.
 
Ms. Wilson has also worked at Faber, was Rights Director at Reed Children's Books (now Egmont), and has run Macmillan's children's publishing for the last ten years, driving their growth and profits. She has built a reputation as one of the most dynamic and forward-looking people in the children's publishing industry. Kate has a first class honours degree from Oxford University and is a guest lecturer at Cranfield Business School.
 
Hugh Roome, President Scholastic International said: “I believe that Kate offers Scholastic UK exceptional skills as a publisher and marketer. She appreciates Scholastic's unique distribution capabilities through school-based book clubs and book fairs as well as the potential of our educational magazines and teacher resources. She is a strategic thinker and will contribute to our global publishing initiatives as we continue to build on Scholastic's leading position in children's publishing and distribution.”
 
In speaking of her new position, Kate Wilson said: “I'm hugely excited by the challenge of the new job, and honoured by the trust that Scholastic is putting in me. Managing the full breadth of Scholastic's many operations and the depth of its publishing is something I look forward to immensely. Scholastic has a greater international commitment to publishing children's books and getting them into children's hands than any other publisher, and it will be great to be a part of that.”
 
Scholastic Corporation, the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children's books, textbooks, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, videos and toys. The Company distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs, school-based book fairs, school-based and direct-to-home continuity programs; retail stores, schools, libraries, and television networks; and the Company's Internet Site, http://www.scholastic.com.

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