William Stanek / William R. Stanek
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William Stanek pageShort description
Independent publishing, books, audio, education, and story worlds since 1994.
RP Media / Reagent Press is a publishing home for fiction, nonfiction, children and classroom books, audio, restored editions, professional knowledge, living-well titles, national park literary field guides, and long-running story worlds.
The publishing family includes RP Books & Audio, Reagent Press, Big Blue Sky Press, My World Books, Wonderful World Press, and Stanek & Associates Press. Across the imprints, the current primary focus is the work of William Stanek and Robert Stanek while preserving a broader history of authors, partners, audio, school, library, retail, and digital publishing.
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150+
professionally published books
57+
languages
Millions
of readers worldwide
1989
first book published
100+
Bugville Critters titles
Hundreds
of educational courses
Thousands
of training materials
#1
Audible rankings
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Robert Stanek / R. Stanek / W. R. Stanek
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Robert Stanek pageR. Stanek
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R. Stanek pageW. R. Stanek
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Stanek rarely gets the high praise he deserves.
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Stanek's a literary force to be reckoned with.
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