Founded in 1939, Barron's Educational Series, Inc. has to its credit eighty years of continued service, publishing and selling books, audio compact discs, and computer software to the educational, professional, and consumer markets. Barron's is America's leading publisher of test preparation materials and school directories. In recent years, Barron's has expanded into more diverse publishing fields, introducing extensive lines of children's books foreign language learning books and audio CD's, pet care manuals, movie directories and general interest books on cinematic arts, cook books, business and financial advice books, and art instruction books. Barron's books are instantly recognized for their variety, reliability, and quality by retailers, educational and institutional book buyers, and not least by the reading public everywhere.