Publishers Weekly has just published a selection of the favorite children’s and YA books of publishing professionals, and four of our clients’ titles are on the list! One is from the Scholastic Graphix list: And three are from First Second: Read the article and see the full list here.
Category: Children’s Fiction
RANGER’S APPRENTICE Goes to Film
Film rights to Australian author John Flanagan’s fantasy-adventure series RANGER’S APPRENTICE have been acquired by Dick Cook Studios with production starting in mid-2020. Published by Random House Children’s, the 12-book ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ series, as well as its two prequels and spinoff series, have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. Click here to read the…
Ahoy! ATTICUS VAN TASTICUS Is Coming!
A ten-year-old pirate captain? Absurd? Not in the world of ATTICUS VAN TASTICUS, a fabulously funny new illustrated junior fiction series from the brilliant and wacky creative minds of Andrew Daddo and Stephen Michael King beginning in September at Penguin Random House Australia. 1750, when times were tough and teeth were rotten… As…
Super News for the SUPER SIDEKICKS!
North American and UK (except ANZ) rights to Penguin Random House Australia’s hot new series, Super Sidekicks from Gavin Aung Than, have gone to Penguin Random House US and UK! The first book, No Adults Allowed, only came out in Australia in April, has sold 8500 copies in just over 2 months, and is…
Meet RUFUS & REENIE!
RUFUS AND REENIE is a gorgeous younger middle-grade novel about a fledgling Great Horned owl and an eleven-year-old girl who must learn to trust in each other—and in themselves. If you loved Barbara O’Connor’s WISH and Wendy Mass and Rebecca’s Stead’s BOB, you will adore the true friendship that Reenie and Rufus experience. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt…
Everyone Likes a Fart!
NO ONE LIKES A FART by Zoe Foster Blake (Penguin Random House Australia) has just been chosen Children’s Picture Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards 2018! Penguin have sold over 60,000 copies in Australia alone since publication – it’s the fastest selling picture book in the history of Bookscan Australia! North American…
Shaun Tan Has Done It Again!
Tok Tok Tok! Australian superstar Shaun Tan, has a new book, CICADA, coming out this summer, and it’s another great one! Books+Publishing has given it a 5-star review that you can read here. Shaun’s previous books have been published in many translations around the world, his animated film, The Lost Thing, won an Oscar, and…
TARIN OF THE MAMMOTHS Wins a Prize!
Jo Sandhu’s middle-grade novel TARIN OF THE MAMMOTHS: THE EXILE has won the 2018 Readings Children’s Book Prize . This is the first book in a trilogy being published by Penguin Random House Australia.
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Film option for THE SHARK CALLER!
Film rights to Dianne Wolfer’s THE SHARK CALLER (Penguin New Zealand) have been optioned by Kerry Warkia & Kiel McNaughton of Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions Ltd. THE SHARK CALLER is a gripping adventure story for middle grade readers, exploring what it is like to be caught between worlds – between urban life and an isolated tropical island; between modernity and…
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