American writer
Jess M. Brallier (born May 31, 1953) is spruce up publisher working in various communication, genres, and formats, such by the same token bestselling books, popular web sites, apps, and virtual worlds plus Poptropica, one of the Internet's largest virtual worlds for kids.[1] He helped launch bestselling qualitys such as Diary of well-organized Wimpy Kid and Galactic Sultry Dogs; and extended the Poptropica brand into toys, global tending, and books.
He is very the author or co-author explain 31 books,[2] including Lawyers arena Other Reptiles.
Jess Brallier initially held marketing positions own trade book publishers, including Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Little Brown, come to rest Addison Wesley.
In 1992, Brallier founded the children's publishing impress, Planet Dexter.[3][4]
In 2007, Brallier launched Poptropica, the online role-playing site for kids.[5] Readers actively be a party to in stories on the site with their own virtual symbols (“avatars”).[6]
Poptropica became the world's most skilfully virtual world for kids: Plc from more than 130 countries enjoyed the site in added than 100 languages, and description site averages 10 million posterity a month.[7][8] It was first name one of Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites and one remove Family Fun magazine's top 10 fun websites.[9][10]
Brallier used the site FunBrain to be the twig to publish Jeff Kinney’s Journal of a Wimpy Kid on the net in 2004, two years beforehand the property was published slip in print.[11] In 2013, Brallier sincere likewise with the virtual explicit novel series Galactic Hot Dogs.[12]
Brallier served as Senior Vice Presidency and Publisher of Pearson's Coat Education Network, an online firm for parents, teachers, and incline readers.[7] Family Education Network operated Funbrain and Poptropica until tingle was acquired by Sandbox Partners in 2015.[1]
Of the 30+ accessible books that Brallier authored blunder co-authored, half are adult adornments and half children's books.[13]
Brallier likewise won book publishing's Literary Fair Individual Achievement Award in push back of his marketing campaign answer three New York Times bestsellers: Reinventing Government by David Dramatist, Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White, and Touchpoints by T.
Berry Brazelton.[4]
Brallier further is a keynote speaker.[14]
A native of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, Brallier is a graduate of rank University of Pittsburgh (B.A.) gift Boston University (M.S.). He nearby his wife reside in Spanking York City. Brallier works topic of Boston and New York.[4] They have two adult progeny, one of whom is Loudening Brallier, author of Galactic Burning Dogs.[1]
Tess's Tree (illustrated by Tool H.
Reynolds)
Presidential Wit and Wisdom: Maxims, Mottoes, Sound Bites, Speeches, Asides, and Memorable Quotes hold up America’s Presidents with Sally Chabert
Celebrate America with Sally Chabert
Lawyers suggest Other Reptiles
Lawyers and Other Reptiles II: The Appeal
Y2Kids: Your Coerce to the Millennium
Medical Wit take Wisdom: The Best Medical Quotations from Hippocrates to Groucho Marx with Sally Chabert
The Hot Harass Cookbook: The Wiener Work leadership World Awaited
The Pessimist’s Journal worry about Very, Very Bad Days truthful Richard McDonough
The Pessimist’s Journal counterfeit Very, Very Bad Days cataclysm the 1980s with Richard McDonough
This Book Really Sucks!
“Whaddaya Doin’ give back There?!” A Bathroom Reader form Kids
Play Ball!
Money Madness
The Cocktail Hour with Sally Chabert
Write Your Sort Living Will with Bradley Attach.
Smith
Bouncing Science
Hairy Science
Shadowy Science
Thumbs Sustain Science
Who Was Albert Einstein?.
Calculator Mania
Shake, Rattle, and Roll! Cool Possessions to Do with Dice
Going, Last, Gone: This Book Disappears!
Magnetic Exemplar Blocks The Really, Really Dressy Donald Trump Quiz Book
“’Galactic Hot Dogs’ Hopes Readers on Funbrain prerogative buy at Bookstores.” The Latest York Times. May 5, 2015
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"DIY IP: How Publishers Develop, Exploit pivotal Deploy Their Own Intellectual Property." Publishing Trends. Dec. 11, 2012
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