• Viking Kestrel • Viking Adult, who got in legal trouble in 1946 due to John Steinbeck's bold eulogy, and fell out of public favor in 1947 • Viking Children's Books • Viking Portable Library • Pamela Dorman Books
Viking Children's In 1933, Viking Press founded a department called Junior Books to publish children's books. The first book published was
The Story About Ping in 1933 under editor
May Massee. Junior Books was later renamed Viking Children's Books. Viking Kestrel was one of its
imprints. Its books have won the
Newbery and
Caldecott Medals, and include such books as
The Twenty-One Balloons, written and illustrated by
William Pene du Bois (1947, Newbery medal winner for 1948),
Corduroy,
Make Way for Ducklings,
The Stinky Cheese Man by
Jon Scieszka and
Lane Smith (1993),
The Outsiders,
Pippi Longstocking, and
The Story of Ferdinand. Its paperbacks are now published by
Puffin Books, which includes the Speak and
Firebird imprints. In 2023, Tamar Brazis was named v-p and publisher of Viking Children's Books.
Viking Critical Library The
Viking Critical Library offers academic editions of
literary texts. Like
W. W. Norton's
Norton Critical Editions, all titles print the text alongside a selection of critical essays and contextual documents (including relevant extracts from the author's oeuvre). The series, which only saw sporadic publications in the late 1970s and late 1990s, has been dormant since 1998, with no new titles released since then. However, a number of existing titles remain in print. ;Titles ==Notable authors==