Poplar Publishing

Poplar Publishing Co., LTD. (株式会社ポプラ社, Popurasha) is a Japanese publishing house^[1] founded in 1947 that publishes books, magazines and manga for Japanese children, the most famous of which is Pre Comic Bunbun. In 2004 it acquired control of the rival Jive.^{[citation needed]}

Some of the children's books published by Poplar are Yutaka Hara's Kaiketsu Zorori ,^[2] Masamoto Nasu's Zukokke Sannin-gumi (The funny trio) and Troll's Oshiri Tantei [ja] (Butt Detective) series, as well as non-fiction books such as the children's encyclopedia Poplardia [ja].^[3] It also publishes the Japanese language editions of Rev W. Audry's The Railway Series and Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid.^{[citation needed]}