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Recent Arrivals
Just received from Spain, the UK, and France! THE HAZEL WOOD Spanish and English (UK) editions, and French editions of THE DAM KEEPER (volume 1) and CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES. Watch for more editions of all these fabulous books coming soon!
THE PARIS EFFECT Film Option Signed!
The film and TV option to K.S.R. Burns’ THE PARIS EFFECT (Velvet Morning Press) has gone to Papazian Hirsch Entertainment, Inc. And here are the flowers that producers James Hirsch and Robert Papazian sent to Karen Burns to celebrate the signing of the deal!
THE PRINCE AND THE DRESSMAKER in PW!
Mermaids and Dressmakers, Gender and Fluidity Elizabeth Bluemle — February 27th, 2018 Publishers Weekly “ “I picked up a copy of Jen Wang’s charming graphic novel, The Prince and the Dressmaker (published earlier this month by First Second) before I knew anything about the subject matter. When I realized that it wasn’t a traditional fairy tale romance, that…
HAZEL WOOD in NY Times Top 10 List for Third Week!
The US edition of THE HAZEL WOOD is in the top 10 of the NY Times’ hardback bestsellers list for the third week in a row! And here are two of the special editions of the UK edition: the Fairy Loot February box hardback (with a bookplate signed by Melissa Albert) and the Waterstones special edition…
THE HAZEL WOOD Goes to Rizzoli
Italian rights to Melissa Albert’s THE HAZEL WOOD have been pre-empted by Rizzoli Libri, making this the 16th foreign sale for this fantastic book! (Film rights have already been sold to Sony Pictures, with Red Wagon producing.) THE HAZEL WOOD was only published at the end of January in the US, but it’s already number 3…
DON’T ASK ME WHERE I’M FROM Sells in Italy!
It’s a brilliant book! Recipient of a Walter Dean Meyers We Need Diverse Books grant, Jennifer De Leon’s DON’T ASK ME WHERE I’M FROM, in which a girl whose father has been deported back to Guatemala is bussed from her inner city high school to a high achieving suburban one, where fitting into different worlds…
SPEAK Gets TWO Starred Reviews!
SPEAK: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL Laurie Halse Anderson; Illustrator: Emily Carroll; Farrar Straus Giroux ★ ”With spellbinding artwork, this exceptional adaptation masterfully does justice to its source material while adding new depth and nuance.” –Booklist ★ ”This gripping, powerful work…
Morris Gleitzman Is the New Children’s Laureate in Australia!
From Publishing Perspectives: The next two-year post as Children’s Literature Laureate in Australia is taken up by Morris Gleitzman. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Where Young Imaginations Draw Strength’ The Australian Children’s Literature Alliance on Monday (February 12) announced author Morris Gleitzman as its new Australian Children’s Laureate for 2018 and 2019. The biennially awarded laureateship highlights the work…
THE HAZEL WOOD Is Finally Here!
THE HAZEL WOOD is coming out in the US tomorrow from Flatiron books! Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review: THE HAZEL WOOD by Melissa Albert (Flatiron). “Alice Proserpine has grown up on the run, haunted by a book her mother, Ella, has forbidden her from reading: Tales from the Hinterland. It’s a collection of unsettling…
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