Grolier Educational Programme

Grolier Educational Programme: Grolier Inc. originated with the Grolier Society founded in 1895 by a group of Boston scholars. Named after Jean Grolier, – a designer and collector of French Renaissance books – the Society produced deluxe editions and memoirs in elegant bindings and sold them on a subscription basis. The society was incorporated as a business organisation under the name, The Grolier Society Inc., in 1936 and finally changed its name to Grolier Incorporated in 1960. While we published the popular 30-volume Encyclopedia Americana, our best seller was the 20-volume Book of Knowledge, which gained wide acceptance as a basic reference material for children in elementary school. Other Grolier products included the 50-volume set of the World's Greatest Classics, the 20-volume Encyclopedia International, the 20-volume American Peoples Encyclopedia, the 10-volume Grolier Universal Encyclopedia, the 10-volume Book of Art, the Book of Popular Science, the Encyclopedia Canadiana, and several other encyclopedias, yearbooks, and reference materials in French, Spanish, and Japanese. In June 2000, we became a part of the Scholastic Group.