Franklin Watts is a publishing house.
Franklin Watts Inc. was formed in 1942. The company was sold to Grolier in 1957. When the namesake founder retired in 1967, he moved to London to start Franklin Watts Ltd. in 1969. Franklin Watts retired again in 1976.
Grolier was acquired by the French company Hachette in 1988. Grolier was sold to Scholastic in 2000, along with the US rights to Franklin Watts and Orchard Books. The UK branch exists today as a imprint of Hachette Children's Books.