This One Summer is a Time Top Ten YA Book of the Year! “Charcoal-and-ink illustrations beautifully capture the heartbreak of family depression, and the growing pains a child feels entering scary, thrilling teenagerdom.” Link: http://time.com/3600001/top-10-ya-books/ Time has chosen a total of thirty books as their top titles of the year – ten fiction, ten nonfiction,…
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A LONG WAY HOME is now in French!
The French edition of A LONG WAY HOME (Je voulais retrouver ma mère) has just been published by City Editions. Production of Lion, the film based on Saroo Brierley’s story, will begin shooting in India in January. Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) will star, with Nicole Kidman playing Saroo’s adoptive mother. For more information on the film go to:…
Break out the bubbly!
THIS ONE SUMMER has won the Canadian Governor General’s Prize in the Children’s Literature illustration category! Congratulations to Jillian and Mariko Tamaki! And also to the publishers First Second Books and Groundwood Books and the authors’ agents, The Rights Factory in Toronto.
New publications of our clients’ books in the USA, France, Brazil and Greece!
Just published in the USA by Seven Stories Press: THE JUGHEADS by J. R. Helton. In France, MENTEUR, MENTEUR (Albin Michel), MON PREMIER JOUR D’ECOLE (Circonflexe) and LOVE ITALY (Hachette Pratique) are all from Penguin Australia. Shaun Tan’s latest magnificent picture book, RULES OF SUMMER, is now out at SM in Brazil. And finally, Franck Pavloff’s…
Things are cooking at First Second!
After the announcement of Scott Westerfield graphic novel, THE SPILL ZONE, here’s more news about more upcoming titles from First Second: Calista Brill at First Second has acquired world rights to John Patrick Green‘s first solo graphic novel, Hippopotamister, in which Hippo and Red Panda must leave the zoo and get jobs in the human world……
First Second signs Scott Westerfield’s first graphic novel!
THE SPILL ZONE, a post-apocalyptic graphic novel written by bestselling author Scott Westerfield and illustrated by Alex Puvilland (TEMPLAR), will be published by First Second in 2016. To read more, go to: http://io9.com/first-amazing-look-at-scott-westerfelds-post-apocalypti-1657384189. We can’t wait to see more!
TRINITY Book 1: KOLDUN CODE by Sophie Masson
Here’s the cover of the first book in Sophie Masson’s new series that we talked about earlier. Isn’t it gorgeous?! For more information, go to http://momentumbooks.com.au/books/trinity-the-koldun-code-book-1/.
More good news for IN REAL LIFE!
Congratulations to Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang, as their graphic novel, IN REAL LIFE, hits the New York Times Bestsellers List at Number 3!
TRINITY: a new series from Australian Sophie Masson
In her new blog, http://www.firebirdfeathers.com, Sophie talks about her lifelong fascination with Russia and how a 2010 trip led to her creating a new adult fantasy/triller/romance series: TRINITY. Click here to read the first post: Trinity’s Russian setting 1: Uglich and the Volga. Book 1, THE KOLDUN CODE, will be published as an e-book by Momentum on…
RELISH is out in Italy now!
The Italian edition of RELISH, Lucy Knisley’s delicious account of life as a foodie, has come out just in time for the Lucca comics festival next week!
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