Gallimard Jeunesse

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Gallimard Jeunesse
Parent companyÉditions Gallimard
Country of originFrance
Headquarters locationParis
Publication typesBooks
Fiction genresChildren's literature
Official websitewww.gallimard-jeunesse.fr

Gallimard Jeunesse is a French publisher of children's books. It is a subsidiary of Éditions Gallimard.

It is the publisher of the French versions of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, the catalogue of Roald Dahl, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Animorphs by Katherine Applegate, The English Roses and other books by Madonna, Winnie the Pooh, and Pokémon.

Gallimard also publishes The Book of Time trilogy, by Guillaume Prévost (which includes , and ), and the birthplace of the encyclopaedic collection "Découvertes Gallimard".

Games and gamebooks[]

In the 1980s, they published most of the gamebooks in France, in the collection Folio Junior — Un livre dont vous êtes le héros (a book in which you are the hero, a reference to the caption of the covers of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks), including Fighting Fantasy, Sorcery!, Lone Wolf, The World of Lone Wolf, Sagas of the Demonspawn, Grailquest, Cretan Chronicles, , Virtual Reality, , Clash of the Princes, , Blood Sword, Real Life Gamebooks, , , , , and a few original French series. They still publish some Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf gamebooks (reissue started in 2012).

In the 1980s, they also published some games: picture book games (Alfred Leonardi: Ace of Aces, Dragonriders of Pern; Mike Vitale and Joe Angiolillo's Shootout at the Saloon) and roleplaying games: Dragon Warriors, The Dark Eye and Pendragon.

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