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Candlewick Press

American publisher of children's books mainly, established by Walker Books (UK) as sister company
Organization Book Publisher Q5032006

Facts

11 properties

Identity

Instance of
book publisher
Official website
www.candlewick.com[8]
Official name
Candlewick Press, Inc.[9]

Status and dates

Inception
1991[6]

Location

Headquarters location
Somerville[4]
Country
United States[3]

Relations

Child organization or unit
Candlewick Studio[5]
Parent organization or unit
Walker Books[7]
More facts +3
Award received
New England Book Award (2003)[2]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/San Diego State University[10]
Social media followers
14k (14k–14k, n=4)[11][12][13][14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Candlewick Press ja キャンドルウィック出版社 zh Candlewick出版社 zh 燭芯出版社
🔖 Identifiers · 19
ISNI
000000010447480X
VIAF cluster ID
156296327
Library of Congress Authorities ID
no2005044873
GND ID
1200482239
BoardGameGeek game publisher ID
7639
BookBrainz publisher ID
d5208fd4-3b65-44db-95c6-6377ff03944e
Comic Vine ID
4010-2169
Crunchbase organization ID
candlewick-press
Facebook username
CandlewickPressBooks
Freebase ID
/m/090r_q
GCD publisher ID
4773
Hoopla publisher ID
6205
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ISFDB publisher ID
1591
Instagram username
candlewickpress
OverDrive publisher ID
candlewick-press
Quora topic ID
Candlewick-Press
X (Twitter) username
Candlewick (2009–present), CandlewickClass (2014–present)
Yale LUX ID
group/1dd24bc7-7405-47db-b79d-0cdeb95aef7f
YouTube channel ID
UCOp4BcxCLcjf2K4-zOR9c0A (2010–present)

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Summary

Candlewick Press is a book publisher[1].

FAQs

What awards did Candlewick Press receive?

Honors received include New England Book Award[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . corp.sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved . corp.sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . corp.sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved . corp.sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . candlewick.com. Retrieved . candlewick.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . candlewick.com. Retrieved . candlewick.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . corp.sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved . corp.sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.candlewick.com/
    X (Twitter) username → Candlewick, CandlewickClass
    BoardGameGeek game publisher ID → 7639
    Quora topic ID → Candlewick-Press
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