2017 Children’s Rights Catalogue Penguin Young Readers Australia and New Zealand
BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017
FOR RIGHTS QUERIES CONTACT: Nerrilee Weir, Senior Rights Manager Tel: +61 2 8923 9892 Email: [email protected] Eleanor Shorne Holden, Rights Manager Tel: +61 3 8537 4619 Email: [email protected] www.penguinrandomhouse.com.au/rights Selected Awards and Nominations 2017 and 2016
Frankie by Shivaun Plozza Longlisted, Inky Awards 2017 (shortlist to be announced in August 2017) Shortlisted, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017
The Other Side of Summer by Emily Gale Finalist, Aurealis Awards 2016 (winner to be announced 14 April 2017) Shortlisted, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017 Longlisted, Indie Book Awards 2017 – Young Adult (winner to be announced on 20 March 2017)
Elegy by Jane Abbott Finalist, Aurealis Awards 2016 (winner to be announced 14 April 2017)
The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis Longlisted, Inky Awards 2017 (shortlist to be announced in August 2017) Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2016 – Young Adult Book Longlisted, Indie Book Awards 2017 – Young Adult
Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth Winner, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2016 – Young Adult Fiction Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier’s Award 2016 – Young Adult
Two Wolves by Tristan Bancks Shortlisted, WAYRBA Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Older Readers
One True Thing by Nicole Hayes Shortlisted, WAYRBA Children’s Choice Awards 2017 (winner to be announced November 2017) Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Older Readers Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier’s Award 2016 – Young Adult
The Pause by John Larkin Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Older Readers
The Shark Caller by Dianne Wolfer Shortlisted, WAYRBA Children’s Choice Awards 2017 (winner to be announced November 2017)
The Red Queen by Isobelle Carmody Longlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 – Book of the Year for Older Children Longlisted, Indie Book Awards 2016 – Young Adult
Ranger’s Apprentice The Early Years 1: The Tournament at Gorlan by John Flanagan Shortlisted, Indie Book Awards 2016 – Young Adult
Soon by Morris Gleitzman Winner, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Younger Readers Winner, YABBA & KOALA Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Years 7–9 Shortlisted, Indie Book Awards 2016 – Young Adult Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Eight to Ten Years Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Years 7–9 Longlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 – Book of the Year for Older Children
Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Years 7–9
2 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE More Awards and Nominations 2017 and 2016 Friday Barnes 4: No Rules by R. A. Spratt Shortlisted, West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards 2017 (winner to be announced November 2017)
Friday Barnes 2: Under Suspicion by R.A. Spratt Winner, Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards 2016 – Best Children’s Novel Shortlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 – Book of the Year for Older Children
Friday Barnes 3: Big Trouble by R.A. Spratt Longlisted, Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards 2016 – Best Children’s Novel
Friday Barnes 3: Big Trouble by R.A. Spratt Longlisted, Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards 2016 – Best Children’s Novel
Jinny and Cooper: My Teacher’s Big Bad Secret by Tania Ingram Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Five to Eight Years
Alice-Miranda at Camp by Jacqueline Harvey Honour Book, KOALA Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Younger Readers Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Younger Readers
Con-nerd by Oliver Phommavanh Shortlisted, YABBA Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Older Readers
The Pirates and the Nightmaker by James Norcliffe Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Junior Fiction
Suri’s Wall by Lucy Estela and Matt Otley (illus.) Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2016 – Children’s Book Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Picture Book
Mr Huff by Anna Walker Winner, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Picture Book Shortlisted, Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2016 – Children’s Fiction Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Picture Books Longlisted, Indie Book Awards 2016 – Children’s Books
From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle by Kate de Goldi Winner, New Zealand Book Awards 2016 – Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Junior Fiction Awarded a White Raven by the International Youth Library 2016
A River by Marc Martin Shortlisted, Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2016 – Picture Fiction
Max by Marc Martin Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Picture Books
First to the Top by David Hill and Phoebe Morris (illus.) Winner, New Zealand Book Awards 2016 – Hell Children’s Choice Award Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Picture Book
Ollie and the Wind by Ronojoy Ghosh Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Three to Five Years
FOR MORE AWARDS SEE PAGE 61
3 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA RIGHTS SOLD SEPTEMBER 2016 TO FEBRUARY 2017
Lion: A Long Way Home Then Young Readers Edition Morris Gleitzman Saroo Brierley Czech Republic (Argo); North America (Penguin previous rights sales include: Random House - Puffin) North America (Macmillan, Henry Holt), United Kingdom (Penguin, Puffin), Chinese Simplified (Shanghai Zui Co.), France (Éditions des Grandes Personnes), Germany (Carlsen Ranger’s Apprentice The Early Verlag), Japan (Asunaro Shobo), Years: The Battle of Hackham Norway (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag), Heath (2) Brazil (Paz e Terra), Slovenia (MIŠ John Flanagan založba), Spain (Editorial Kailas) Poland (Jaguar); previous rights sales include: Singing Home the Whale North America (Penguin, Mandy Hager Philomel), United Kingdom Slovenia (MIŠ založba) (Random House), The Netherlands (Gottmer), Sweden (B. Wahlstöms Bokförlag), Brazil (Editora Fundamento), Germany (Random House), Czech Republic (Albatross), Denmarjk (Gyldendal), Audio ANZ (Bolinda) Brotherband 3: The Hunters Ranger’s Apprentice The Early John Flanagan Years: The Tournament at Gorlan (1) Lithuania (Nieko rimto); John Flanagan previous rights sales as per The Turkey (Beyaz Balina); Early Years (2) and: Taiwan (Core previous rights sales as per The Early Culture), Turkey (Beyaz Balina), Years (2) Korea (ChapterHouse)
Alice-Miranda Books 10 to 14 Alice-Miranda at Sea (4) Jacqueline Harvey Jacqueline Harvey Turkey (Artemis Yayinlari) Hungary (Mano Konyvek); previous rights sales include: United Kingdom (Random House), North America (Random House), Brazil (Editora Fundamento), Turkey (Artemis Yayinlari), Indonesia (Hikmah), Hungary (Mano Konyvek), Audio (Audible), Starlight Stables (1 and 2) Film option (SLR Productions) Soraya Nicholas Czech Republic (Albatros Publishers) Saurus Street 4: An Allosaurus Ate My Uncle Nick Falk and Tony Flowers Japan (Kin-no-Hoshi)
4 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA RIGHTS SOLD SEPTEMBER 2016 TO FEBRUARY 2017
Lots A River Marc Martin Marc Martin North America (Chronicle), Italy (Adriano Salani Editore); Taiwan (China Times previous rights sales include: Publishing), Sweden (Mirando Books), Japan (Kaiseisha Ltd.); Taiwan (Hsinex International), previous rights sales include: United Kingdom (Templar), United Kingdom (Templar), North America (Chronicle Books), Sweden (Mirando Books), France (Editions Circonflexe), Korea (Wisdom House) Korea (Kids-M)
Max A Forest Marc Martin Marc Martin Taiwan (China Times Italy (Adriano Salani Editore), Publishing); Taiwan (China Times previous rights sales include: Publishing); United Kingdom (Templar) previous rights sales include: United Kingdom (Templar), France (Editions Circonflexe), Korea (Kids-M), Italy (Adriano Salani Editore), Ollie and the Wind Chinese Simplified (China Ronojoy Ghosh Electric Power Press), Breton (Association An Oaled) China (Publishing House Electronics Industry); previous rights sales include: Taiwan (Taiwan Mac) Is Your Grandmother a Goanna? Pamela Allen Chinese Simplified (Dolphin Media) Sophie Scott Goes South Alison Lester Chinese Simplified (Dolphin Media Co. Ltd); Are We There Yet? previous rights sales include: Alison Lester North America (Houghton Mifflin), Taiwan (Abula Press Inc.); Korea (A Thousand Hopes), previous rights sales include: Spain (Ediciones Ekare), North America (Kane Miller), Japan (Komine Shoten), Chinese Simplified (Qing Dao Poland (Wydawnictwo REA-SJ), Publishing House), Taiwan Greece (Kaleidoscope Publications) (Abula Press), Korea (Yeowon Media)
5 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA RIGHTS SOLD SEPTEMBER 2016 TO FEBRUARY 2017
Bruiser Something Wonderful Gavin Bishop Raewyn Caisley and Karen Blair Korea (Hansol Soobook Korea (Greatbooks, inc.) Publishing co.); previous rights sales include: Chinsese Simplified (Beijing Normal University), Taiwan (Little Bear Books)
Big Rain Coming The Man with Messy Hair Katrina Germein Pamela Allen Chinese Simplified (Beijing Chinese Simplified (Dolphin United Publishing Co.); Media); previous rights sales include: previous rights sales include: North America (Clarion) Israel (Sefer Lakol)
Where is the Green Sheep? Mem Fox and Judy Horacek Brazil (Saber e Ler); No Place Like Home previous rights sales include: Ronojoy Ghosh Vietnam (Quangvan Books and China (Publishing House Media Joint Stock Co.), of Electronics Industry) New Zealand (Huia Publishing), previous rights sales include: Israel (Modan Publishing), Korea (Conko Co. Ltd), Japan (Ric Publications), United Spain (Terapias Verdes), Kingdom (Chrysalis Children’s Taiwan (Taiwan Mac) Books),Kyrgyzstan (Sonoon Jer), Korea (Youngkyo Publishing Co.), Chinese Simplified (Dolphin Media Co.), Taiwan (Ecus Publishing House), Audio (Bolinda Publishing)
6 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Young Adult © J ennifer Cluff
Palace of Fires: Initiate (Book 1) In-house Reaction Bill Bennett ‘I finished this last night because I couldn’t stop reading it! It’s so fast-paced and kept the Pub date: February 2018 momentum up well. It’s a great commercial Format: 352pp – 128 x 198mm YA crossover read with short, sharp chapters Rights held: World and cliffhanger chapter ends (and an overall Division: Australia – Penguin cliffhanger ending to the novel) that make it Pacy, gripping and unputdownable new such a compulsive read – a sort of Dan Brown paranormal series from acclaimed filmmaker for YA but with the secret networks etc being Bill Bennett. black and white witches. I finished it in a day Lily, sixteen, lives with her mom Angela on a farm . . . and read the first 40,000 words in three in Northern California. Lily is an only child, and hours as soon as I started reading it, so that after the death of her father in a car crash, her gives you some idea of how it hooks you in.’ mother has become her best friend. Then Angela COMMISSIONING EDITOR, AMY THOMAS disappears. In the days that follow, Lily discovers ‘A very exciting, compelling and unputdownable that her mom has been abducted by a highly witchcraft thriller, with wonderfully vivid and secretive organisation of witches. nasty villains that still haunt my imagination.’ They’ve abducted her because, more than three PUBLISHER, LISA RILEY hundred years earlier, an Irish ancestor sold her Sales Points soul to the devil, then reneged on the deal. Ever since, he has sought to claim in recompense • Move over vampires, witchcraft is the next the soul of the firstborn female of the family hot thing! Dan Brown meets Sally Green’s bloodline. Half Bad. The witches intend to sacrifice Lily’s mother • Bill Bennett is a former award-winning and extract her soul – and the only way to save journalist and one of Australia’s most her is for Lily to become a witch herself, and experienced and respected feature acquire powers. With the help of a young Native filmmakers. His 15 movies have won prizes at American shaman boy, Lily sets out across some of the most prestigious film festivals the American desert to find her mother – not around the world. The Age describes him as realising that the witches are after her soul too. “one of the best film realists in the world” and Variety has called him “an Outback BILL BENNETT began his career as a Hitchcock”. journalist at the ABC – and later segued into independent production as a writer/director, making documentaries and feature films. He’s won numerous awards both in Australia and internationally, and his movies have been invited to some of the world’s most prestigious film festivals. He’s an Adjunct Professor of Creative Industries at a leading Australian university. He is the author of a best-selling Camino memoir, The Way, My Way. White Witch Black Witch was his first novel.
7 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Young Adult
destined bride or something. Ugh. Fairies. Can they just not? On top of all this, Pearl has to a) win her best friend Phil back, b) get the Unseelie monster possessing Cardy out of his head, c) deal with the fact that her brother is marrying his awful girlfriend, d) do something about the fact that Julian might want to kill her, e) somehow convince the internet she’s not a murderer, f) maintain a presence on the Haylesford indie music scene, g) try and get over her new phobia of water, h) find time for her new job at OverWrought, and i) attend high school. Oh, and j) pencil in time to go on an actual proper date with Finn. If she can manage that without evil fairies trying to kill them. And you know what? This is a lot for one seventeen-year-old girl to handle. No wonder Ironheart Pearl is so full of rage all the time . . . and that Jodi McAlister rage might be drawing the attention of some very dangerous people. Pub date: February 2018 JODI MCALISTER is an author and academic. Format: 320pp – 129 x 198mm She has a PhD in History and English and Rights held: World excluding North America and UK currently teaches at the University of Tasmania. Rights sold: Czech Republic (Albatros Media) Her academic work focuses on the history Division: Australia – Penguin of love, the history of sex, and the history of Ironheart is the sequel to Valentine, the first popular literature. volume in an exciting paranormal young-adult Praise for Valentine series featuring Pearl and Finn, from explosive new talent Jodi McAlister. ‘Fans of urban fantasy aged 13 years and up will find themselves quite at home with this Pearl Linford is stuck. debut novel from Jodi McAlister.’ BOOKS + Her best friend won’t talk to her. She’s promised PUBLISHING never to lie to her siblings again, so she’s not ‘Valentine ticks a number of appealing boxes exactly talking to them. And she’s waiting for the and offers unexpected twists, and this balance right moment to forgive Finn Blacklin, but she should make it popular among demanding teens doesn’t know when that is. who expect high quality from their literature. The Pearl knows that something bad is on the diversity is there, but not in a way that seems horizon, but it might make her life so much artificial or forced. It’s impressive how seamless easier if it would just get here already. And then and organic it feels. Recommended to readers she discovers the truth, and decides waiting was who like their main character sarcastic and better after all. edgy. The romance smoulder is off the charts In this follow-up novel to Valentine, Pearl and and the family dynamic is strange yet perfect.’ Finn face a new threat. The Unseelie fairies have TRISHTALKSTEXTS.WORDPRESS.COM infiltrated their town, and they’ve unleashed ‘Valentine was such a gripping, intense book that a new horror on them – a bunch of wild, was impossible to put down and I was constantly uncontrollable, angry supernatural hunters who on the edge of my seat trying to work out how have only one aim – kill Finn. The Seelie fairies everything was going to piece together. The (who are talking to Finn way more than Pearl is romance between our two main characters was comfortable with) see only one solution to this adorable and swoon-worthy, and I loved how problem: Finn has to come away with them to they worked together and made this adventure their fairy kingdom. as intense and exciting as it was. If you’re a But this isn’t going to work for Pearl. How’s she fan of urban fantasy and are looking for a new going to make him her boyfriend if he’s not even and unique Aussie YA series to sink your teeth in the same dimension? into, I highly recommend reading Valentine!’ WRITTENWORDWORLDS.WORDPRESS.COM Not that this is all she has to deal with. Her cousin Tam – the cousin she doesn’t remember having, and who mysteriously looks just like Finn – has come to stay. And he’s strangely devoted Valentine to a red-headed girl called Emily: a girl who just (Book 1) happens to be a fairy, and who just happens to Jodi McAlister have made Finn’s ex Holly-Anne her personal servant, and who also happens to be, like, Finn’s FEBRUARY 2017
8 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Young Adult
NEW TITLE COMING IN EARLY 2018
Pieces of You EILEEN MERRIMAN has won awards for her Eileen Merriman flash fiction and adult short stories and this is her first work for young adult readers. Her Pub date: June 2017 writing has appeared in a number of journals Format: 336pp – 128 x 198mm and anthologies, including Smokelong Quarterly, Rights held: World The Island Review, Literary Orphans, the 2015 Division: New Zealand – Penguin Bath Short Story Anthology, the Sunday Star- Times, F(r)iction, Takahe, Headland and Flash Wise, tough, heart-breaking, funny, this Frontier. compulsive love story is about facing your demons. When fifteen-year-old Rebecca McQuilten Sales Points moves with her parents to a new city, her life falls • A brilliant novel in the vein of All the Bright apart. Sexually assaulted after a party, a lonely Places and Fault in Our Stars. Rebecca finds herself cut adrift from friends and • It’s a brilliantly written, compelling story – a family; and drawn to self-harm. real page-turner and a weepy love story. Things look up when she meets gregarious • A novel that explores self-harm, sexual sixteen-year-old Cory Marshall. Drawn to each assault and depression among teenagers in other by a love of literature, they meet in Cory’s a sensitive way, helping readers understand back yard tree house – and fall in love. these issues and showing that mutual Cory persuades Rebecca to stop cutting herself, support can sometimes be a helpful first but she’s too afraid to confide in him about the step to overcoming one’s demons. assault – especially as the perpetrator, Andy, is in • An exciting new writer, with other novels Cory’s sport team. in a similar style lining up, including Cory’s own emotional life is increasingly volatile. Schrodinger’s Cat (publishing early 2018). Secure in the love of the family who adopted him at birth, his eventual meeting with his birth mother sends him into a tailspin. Fighting his own demons and withdrawing from Rebecca, Cory suffers a shocking accident. Rebecca, left to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, must confront her own demons, come to terms with her anger and grief, and discover an inner strength she didn’t know she had. Creative New Zealand invites applications for funding towards the translation of this title. towards funding Creative New Zealand invites applications for www.publishers.org.nz/translation-grants/
9 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Young Adult
MAURICE GEE has long been considered one of New Zealand’s finest writers. He has written more than thirty books for adults and young adults and has won numerous literary awards, including the UK’s James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award and the New Zealand Children’s Book of the Year Award. In 2003 he received an The Severed Land inaugural New Zealand Icon Award and in 2004 Maurice Gee he received a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. Maurice Gee’s novels include the Pub date: February 2017 Plumb trilogy, Going West, Prowlers, Live Bodies Format: 192pp – 128 x 198mm and The Scornful Moon. Rights held: World Rights sold previous titles: Salt: North America (Orca Books), Canada (AdA), Praise for Salt Text (Australia), Brazil (Bertrand), Turkey (Artemis) (The Salt Triology Volume I) Division: New Zealand – Penguin ‘I picked up Salt, Maurice Gee’s . . . young adult fantasy, one evening . . . and I didn’t put it This gripping, page-turning fantasy adventure down again . . . What starts out as a dystopian follows a dangerous quest through a divided world. adventure romance quickly leads us into From the high reaches of a tree, Fliss watches meditations on nuclear power and the ultimate the soldiers attempting yet again to break nature of humanity. The strength and clarity of through the invisible wall. Amid the explosions, the prose, the simple, compelling story woven a drummer boy tries to escape. As he is about to through with ideas of fundamental importance – be shot, Fliss reaches through the wall and pulls Gee has done remarkable work in this genre, but him to safety. But Fliss is dismayed to find she this is in my view the best children’s book of his has saved an overfed rich boy. She is even more long career.’ LISTENER dismayed to learn that she must accompany ‘A real page turner with a strong plot and credible him back through the wall on a special mission characters.’ MARLBOROUGH EXPRESS to rescue the Nightingale. ‘A sophisticated fantasy that delivers the goods.’ The world they have to travel through is a DAILY TIMES perilous one, full of predatory thieves, slave masters, beggars, dippers, mudlarks, ‘A biological and psychological horror story, even drain-sliders, spies and wall-men. It is a world scarier than its predecessor. Gee’s imagination is where the ruling families are caught up in a as fierce as ever.’ HERALD ON SUNDAY lethal power struggle. ‘A superbly written and realised fantasy for Will Fliss and the despised drummer boy learn to those who demand a thought-provoking read.’ trust each other? Who is the Nightingale? WEEKEND HERALD And will they all make it back alive? Creative New Zealand invites applications for funding towards the translation of this title. towards funding Creative New Zealand invites applications for www.publishers.org.nz/translation-grants/ JUNE 2007 JUNE 2008 MARCH 2010 10 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Young Adult
Hunted (Book 2) When Bea encounters her childhood friend, Gus, Amanda Holohan and discovers that Red is still alive, she journeys back to the ruins of the city to search for him. Pub date: May 2017 Danger is waiting, and it’s soon clear that no one Format: 336pp – 129 x 198mm is truly who they say they are – even Bea. Rights held: World The countdown to the Erebii destroying the Division: Australia – Penguin earth has begun. Can Bea save those who have been left behind? Desperation makes people irrational. And that makes them dangerous. This is the action-packed AMANDA HOLOHAN studied media and sequel to the sci-fi title Unwanted. How will Bea literature at Macquarie University, then she and the others survive in the forest now that headed overseas for adventures of her own. they’ve escaped the human prison that was their She has lived in England, Holland and Ireland, city? Even out here no one is truly who they say and currently resides in the beautiful Blue they are – not even Bea. Mountains, west of Sydney, with her husband Bea and the other humans, who have escaped and daughter. She has worked as a waitress, the clutches of the city, are set to survive in travel advisor, bookseller, editorial coordinator, the forest. But those infected with dead ink are freelance writer, book reviewer and copy cursed with sickness, and the lack of food, water subeditor. Her first published novel, The King’s and supplies are a danger to everyone. Bea also Fool, was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award mourns the loss of Red, who died during the and included on the NSW Premier’s Reading attack on the TellMe tower when the Elders were Challenge booklist. killed. However, the Erebii are not done. They seek Praise for Unwanted revenge. In their search for the Whisper, they ‘Innovative ideas and symbols set this book kidnap Bea’s sister and her baby from their camp above the glut of current dystopias.’ THE and kill the last Donohue, while others escape WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN further into the forest. There is a glimmer of hope when Bea comes across the Wildborns, humans who have survived for generations outside the control of the Erebii city. Leo and Trudy vow to help her rescue Joy, but for the price of allowing scientist Matthias to perform experiments on her blood, which clearly has some sort of power against the Erebii ink. There is someone else hunting the human Unwanted survivors too . . . a fourth Elder who is (Book 1) manipulating and threatening Bea and her Amanda Holohan family. FEBRUARY 2015
11 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Young Adult – Non-fiction
Jake Bailey: What Cancer Taught JAKE BAILEY caused a global sensation when he delivered a rousing speech from his Me wheelchair as Head Boy at Christchurch Boys’ Jake Bailey High School’s end of year prize giving in 2015. Pub date: May 2017 Just one week earlier, Jake was diagnosed with Format: 240pp – 135 x 210mm Burkett’s non-Hodgkinson lymphoma, the Rights held: World fastest growing form of cancer, and was given three weeks to live if this was left untreated. Division: New Zealand – Penguin A video of the speech he delivered to his fellow Teenager Jake Bailey’s inspirational account of students was viewed by millions and attracted overcoming cancer. media attention from around the world. His now famous quote – ‘Here’s the thing, none of us ‘None of us get out of life alive, so be gallant, get out of life alive, so be gallant, be great, be be great, be gracious and be grateful for the gracious and be grateful for the opportunities opportunities you have.’ you have’ – was voted Massey University’s 2015 Jake Bailey’s inspirational end of year speech Quote of the Year. as Head Boy at Christchurch Boys’ High Since his cancer was declared in remission, Jake School, delivered from a wheelchair and whilst has gone on to share his experiences in the hope still undergoing treatment for cancer, made of helping other people facing difficulties in headlines around the world. Diagnosed just a their lives. He is in demand as a public speaker week earlier with the most aggressive form of and is an official ambassador for the Maia cancer – one with often fatal results – Jake didn’t Health Foundation in New Zealand and Tour de know whether he would have the strength to Cure in Australia. deliver the words he had written before receiving the shocking news of his illness. And he had no idea of the significance his speech would assume, as he lay in hospital enduring intensive chemotherapy. In this remarkably honest account of his illness, treatment and recovery, Jake shares all that the experience has taught him. Before I got sick I was dying to get home from school. I was dying for the weekends. I was dying for the school holidays, and then before I knew it I was dying in Christchurch Hospital. Confronting the possibility of death has led Jake to re-evaluate all that he took for granted in life and to encourage others to do the same. His book is an uplifting call to action to people of all ages. Creative New Zealand invites applications for funding towards translation costs for the title on this page. for translation costs towards funding Creative New Zealand invites applications for Please visit http://www.publishers.org.nz/translation-grants/ further for information.
12 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Teenage Readers
Before You Forget Praise for The Flyaway Girls Julia Lawrinson ‘The Flyaway Girls deals realistically and sympathetically with some of the big issues that Pub date: February 2017 face young people as they move into adulthood: Format: 240pp – 129 x 198mm the unravelling of childhood friendships, the Rights held: World choice to make hard decisions for the greater Rights sold previous titles Losing it: Germany (cbj Verlag); good, and learning to pursue what’s really Famous! Aussie Chomps: Chinese simplified (Foreign important . . . This is an ideal novel for younger Language Teaching & Research Press); Push: Audio (WF secondary students, especially those who need Howes) a gentle reminder to take a breath and enjoy life.’ Division: Australia – Penguin LAMONTBOOKS.COM.AU At times funny, at times heartbreaking, this is an ‘I found The Flyaway Girls refreshing and ultimately uplifting story about the delicate fabric innovative. Lawrinson’s writing style is vivid, her of family and friendship, and the painful realisation descriptions of gymnastics interesting and her that not everything can remain the same forever. humour light.’ READINGTIME.COM.AU Year Twelve is not off to a good start for Amelia. Art is her world, but her art teacher hates Praise for Losing It everything she does; her best friend has stopped ‘Among the many things Julia Lawrinson talking to her; her mother and father may as well writes superlatively well is the awkwardness of be living in separate houses; and her father is adolescence. It’s a funny, surprising, agonising slowly forgetting everything. Even Amelia. story of friendship and self-discovery, and you JULIA LAWRINSON’s first novel, Obsession, don’t have to be a young adult to be hooked.’ won the 2001 WA Premier’s Prize for Young Adult THE WEST AUSTRALIAN Writing. Since then she has published more ‘Award-winning YA novelist Julia Lawrinson’s than ten novels, including Bye, Beautiful, which latest book, Losing It, is a sassy coming-of- was shortlisted for both the Queensland and age tale . . . It’s sure to appeal to older high Western Australia Premier’s Awards and was a school readers keen for an alternative to the 2007 CBCA Notable Book and the popular Chess supernatural romances and dystopian thrillers Nuts, which was 2010 CBC Notable Book. currently lining YA shelves.’ BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER
The Flyaway Girls Losing It Julia Lawrinson Julia Lawrinson AUGUST 2015 MARCH 2012
13 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Teenage Readers
DAVID HILL’S PREVIOUS TITLES HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN NORTH AMERICA, UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, FRANCE, DENMARK KOREA, SLOVENIA, ESTONIA, JAPAN AND CHINA.
Flight Path In 2004 David was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit and in 2005 he was David Hill awarded the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, Pub date: April 2017 acknowledging his significant contribution to Format: 288pp – 129 x 198mm children’s literature in New Zealand. Rights held: World Rights sold previous title See Ya, Simon: North America Praise for My Brother’s War (Penguin Random House, Dutton), United Kingdom ‘. . . there are stories that need to be told over (Frances Lincoln), Germany (Anrich Verlag), Slovenia and over again, to introduce a new generation of (Mish), Japan (Kyuryudo), Estonia (BIT Ltd), The readers to important ideas and to critical times Netherlands (Facet), Chinese Simplified (Zhejiang), in their country’s history . . . Hill’s descriptions of trench warfare are unforgettable.’ JUDGES’ Denmark (Modtryk Publishing House) REPORT OF THE NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK Division: New Zealand – Penguin AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS A gripping novel for young adults that captures 2013. both the daring and the everyday realities of ‘. . . this is an important and highly readable serving in the Air Force during the Second World book.’ NZ LISTENER War. ‘Beautifully written and deeply engrossing.’ Pete and Paul yelled together. ‘Bandit! Nine OTAGO DAILY TIMES o-clock! Bandit!’ Jack spun to stare. There was the Messerschmitt on their left, streaking straight at Awards them. See Ya, Simon Eighteen-year-old Jack wanted to escape boring • Winner, 1994 Times Educational Supplement little New Zealand. But he soon finds that flying Award for Special Needs in a Lancaster bomber to attack Hitler’s forces • Winner, 2002 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award brings terror as well as excitement. With every for a Much-loved Book. dangerous mission, he becomes more afraid My Brother’s War that he’ll never get back alive. He wants to help • Winner, 2013 Junior Fiction Award and the win the war, but will he lose his own life? Children’s Choice Junior Fiction Award in the DAVID HILL is a prolific and highly regarded New Zealand Post Book Awards New Zealand writer, playwright, poet, columnist • Winner, 2013 LIANZA Librarian’s Choice Award and critic. Best known for his popular and • 2013 Storylines Notable Junior Fiction book award-winning body of work for young people, Brave Company ranging from picture books to teenage fiction, • 2013 Storylines Notable Junior Fiction book his novels have been published all around the First to the Top world and translated into several languages. • 2016 Storylines Notable Picture book David has published more than 40 titles over the past three decades.
My Brother’s War David Hill August 2012 Creative New Zealand invites applications for funding towards the translation of titles on this page towards funding Creative New Zealand invites applications for www.publishers.org.nz/translation-grants/
14 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Teenage Readers – Non-fiction
KAZ COOKE HAS SOLD OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE KAZ COOKE’S BOOKS HAVE SOLD IN 16 TERRITORIES
Girl Stuff 8–12 KAZ COOKE is the number one go-to advisor Kaz Cooke for Australian girls and women. Her best-selling books include Girl Stuff, Women’s Stuff, Up Pub date: October 2016 the Duff, Kidwrangling, and a series of ebooks Format: 176pp – 174 x 207mm on women’s health issues from sex to mental Rights held: World health and menopause. Kaz’s funny, friendly Rights sold previous titles: style is backed by research and professional Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years: United consultants and she’s been a best friend Kingdom (Rough Guides), Lithuania (Alma Littera), to at least two generations. (Her children’s France (Editions Leduc), Poland (Wydawnictwo Insignis), book The Terrible Underpants is not quite Chinese Simplified (Qing Dao Publishing House), Mexico autobiographical.) (Santillana), Hungary (Sanoma Media) Praise for Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide Division: Australia – Penguin to the Teen Years ‘Girl Stuff is the bible when it comes to being a Girl Stuff 8–12 is the essential younger girl’s guide young teen girl.’ BELLABOO.COM.AU to puberty and the pre-teen years. ‘Girl Stuff is the ultimate teen guide.’ COURIER Here’s everything you need to know about being MAIL a pre-teen, from Kaz Cooke, author of Girl Stuff for teens. ‘The ultimate reference book for any girl.’ GIRLFRIEND • body changes ‘It has practical advice on diet, health, sex, and • dealing with friends and bullies other embarrassing problems.’ GOOD HEALTH & • gaining confidence MEDICINE • first periods Awards for Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide • pimples to the Teen Years • hair (wherever it is) • Winner, 2008 Australian Publisher’s Association Best Designed Non-fiction Book • phones & being online • Winner, 2008 Nielsen BookData Booksellers • what to eat Choice Award Book of the Year • being fit and healthy • Winner, 2008 Australian Book Industry • the best books and movies Awards Best General Non-fiction • how to be happy with your own true self • Winner, 2008 Australian Book Industry • & lots more! Awards Best Marketing Campaign Girl Stuff 8–12 fits under your pillow and is written with the help of medical and other experts. PS: This book is for girls aged 8 to 12. Girls 12+ need Girl Stuff: Your Full–on Guide to the Teen Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Years. Guide to the Teen Years Kaz Cooke PUB DATE OCTOBER 2007
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Awards The Garden of Empress Cassia • Winner, 2002 Aurealis Award • Shortlisted, 2002 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards GABRIELLE WANG’S • Notable Book, 2002 Children’s Book Council PREVIOUS TITLES HAVE of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards BEEN PUBLISHED IN NORTH AMERICA, The Pearl of Tiger Bay THE UNITED KINGDOM, • Shortlisted, 2004 Aurealis Award FRANCE, KOREA, CHINA The Lion Drummer AND LATIN AMERICA. • Notable Book, 2009 CBCA Book of the Year Awards A Ghost in My Suitcase • Winner, 2009 Aurealis Award, • Notable Book, 2009 CBCA Book of the Year Awards • Shortlisted, 2011 Sakura Medal • Highly Commended, 2010 Prime Minister’s The Beast of Hushing Wood Literary Awards Gabrielle Wang Little Paradise Pub date: April 2017 • Highly Commended, 2011 Prime Minister’s Format: 192pp – 129 x 198mm Awards. Rights held: World The Race for the Chinese Zodiac illustrated by Rights sold previous title Garden of Empress Cassia: North Sally Rippin and Regine Abos America (Kane Miller), United Kingdom (Penguin, Puffin) • Notable Book, 2011 CBCA Awards France (Hachette Jeunesse), Korea (Truebook Co. Ltd.), The Wishbird Panama – Spanish (Grupo Editorial Norma), Audio • Notable Book, 2014 CBCA Awards (Bolinda Publishing) • Shortlisted, 2014 Australian Book Design Division: Australia – Penguin Awards A powerful magic realism story about Ziggy Truegood, a young girl who has a premonition that Praise for The Wishbird she will drown on her 12th birthday. ‘It is beautifully illustrated by the author and her Ziggy Truegood lives in the town of Dellhollow gentle, finely spun silken threads of storytelling and, unlike everybody else who lives there, lead into a fragile, mystical world.’ THE WEST she is curious about what might exist outside AUSTRALIAN of her town’s invisible walls. When Raafi and his grandfather move to town, their ‘The Wishbird is a gorgeous change of pace, a exotic appearance and customs makes the lovely children’s fantasy with an oriental setting.’ townspeople suspicious. But Ziggy is drawn DARK MATTER FANZINE to the newcomers when she is hunted by a ‘Award-winning Gabrielle Wang has the brilliant frightening beast. Are they there to help or ability to write new legends. The Wishbird has hurt her? And are they connected to Ziggy’s the flavour of ancient Chinese tales but with a premonition that she will drown on her twelfth freshness and beauty that will delight modern birthday? Thought-provoking and engaging, The Western readers.’ GOOD READING Beast of Hushing Wood is a blend of action, fable ‘The Wishbird is a magical story of bravery, and magic realism, from the award-winning friendship and music. Verdict: beautiful.’ author of The Wishbird. HERALD SUN GABRIELLE WANG is an author and illustrator born in Melbourne of Chinese heritage. Her maternal great grandfather came to Victoria during the Gold Rush and her father from Shanghai. Her stories are a blend of Chinese and Western culture with a touch of fantasy. THE WISHBIRD GABRIELLE WANG JULY 2013
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Twice Upon a Time JAMES NORCLIFFE is an award-winning poet James Norcliffe and educator, as well as an author of children’s books. He was awarded the 2012 University Pub date May 2017 of Otago College of Education’s Writer in Format: 240pp – 128 x 198mm Residence, and has been recipient of the 2006 Rights held: World Fellowship at Iowa University and the 2000 Division: New Zealand – Penguin Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University. An enchanting story of a story, Twice Upon a Time His novel The Loblolly Boy was described by is a charming junior fiction novel by award-winning New Zealand’s most acclaimed children’s writer writer James Norcliffe. Margaret Mahy as ‘a rich fantasy – alive with What happens when you find yourself trapped original twists surprises and mysteries’. It was inside a story? also published in the United States. What happens if the only way out is to solve the Awards for The Loblolly Boy riddles of the Very Bad Very Good Storyteller, Mr • Shortlisted, 2010 USBBY (United States Aesop Sod? Board of Books for Young People) And where, oh where, is Pop? Outstanding International Books for Ginny and her strange new friend, Digger Children Dagger, must navigate their way through this • Shortlisted, 2010 Storylines Children’s upside down, topsy turvy world where Don’s Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand, Dairy has become Nod’s Diary, the fish and chip Notable Books List shop is full of tropical fish tanks and wood chips, • Shortlisted, 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award New and the ghost train at the funfair really is a Zealand, Young Adult Category ghost train. • Winner, 2010 New Zealand Post Children’s How will the story end? Will Ginny and Digger Book Awards Junior Fiction Category Dagger find the answers they need? Sometimes • Shortlisted, 2010 LIANZA (Library and they are right there in front of you. Information Association of New Zealand Award-winning author James Norcliffe has Aotearoa) Awards, Esther Glen Award written a delightful story full of wordplay, old-world charm and imagination, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. Creative New Zealand invites applications for funding towards the translation of title on this page towards funding Creative New Zealand invites applications for www.publishers.org.nz/translation-grants/
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WINNER OF THE BAFATA AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED NOMINATED SCREENPLAY FOR GOLDEN 2017 GLOBE AWARD FOR BEST MOTION PICTURE 2017 NOMINATED FOR ACADAMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE 2017
Lion: A Long Way Home Young the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an Readers’ Edition orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia. Saroo Brierley Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. He spent Pub date: January 2017 hours staring at the map of India on his Pub date Adult edition: June 2014 bedroom wall. When he was a young man the Format: 256pp – 129 x 198mm with colour photo insert advent of Google Earth led him to pore over Rights held: World satellite images of the country for landmarks Rights sold this edition: North America (Penguin Random he recognised. And one day, after years of House US - Puffin) searching, he miraculously found what he was Rights sold A Long Way Home Adult edition: North looking for. America (Penguin Random House, Putnam), United Then he set off on a journey to find his mother. Kingdom (Penguin Group), Poland (Spoleczny Instytut A Long Way Home is a moving and inspirational Wydawniczy Znak), Germany (Ullstein Buchverlage), true story that celebrates the importance of Canada (Penguin Group), France (City Editions Paris), never letting go of what drives the human spirit Italy (Grupo Editoriale Fabbri), Portugal (Editorial – hope. Presenca), Korea (Invictus Media), Russia (Hemiro), Japan Told chronologically, Lion: A Long Way Home (Say-Zan-Sha Publications), Taiwan (Business Weekly features new material from Saroo about his Publications), The Netherlands (Meulenhoff Boekerij), childhood, including a new foreword for young India – Marathi (Mehta Publishing House), India – readers, and a Q & A about his experiences and English (Penguin Books), Spain (Ediciones Peninsula), the process of making the film. Chinese Simplified (Central Radio And Tv University Press), Brazil (Grupo Editorial Record ), Audio (Bolinda SAROO BRIERLEY was born in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India. He lives in Hobart, Publishing), Condensation (Reader’s Digest) Tasmania. Division: Australia – Penguin Praise for A Long Way Home A moving and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds. Lion: A Long ‘We urge you to step behind the headlines and Way Home celebrates the importance of never have a read of this absorbing account . . . With letting go of what drives the human spirit – hope. clear recollections and good old-fashioned Now in a younger readers’ edition published to tie storytelling, Saroo . . . recalls the fear of being in with the release of Lion, the major motion picture lost and the anguish of separation.’ WEEKLY starring Dev Patel, David Wenham and Nicole REVIEW Kidman. ‘A remarkable story . . . [Brierley] provides an A true story of survival and triumph against informative and fascinating insight into how incredible odds. Third World families live with, and somehow survive, their poverty.’ SATURDAY AGE When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he Link to the film trailer made global headlines. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3741834/ Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on
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ROBERT NEWTON works as a full-time firefighter with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. His first novel, My Name is Will Thompson, was published in 2001. Since then he has written six other novels for young people, including Runner, The Black Dog Gang and When We Were Two. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and three daughters. Awards for When We Were Two • Winner, 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award • Honour Award, 2012 CBCA Book of the Year Awards • Nominated, 2014 Sakura Award (Japan) Praise for When We Were Two ‘. . . this richly crafted character piece has all the hallmarks of classic Australian literature. Blending fact with fiction, Newton explores Mr Romanov’s Garden in the Sky issues around heroism, masculinity and national Robert Newton identity with tenderness and intelligence . . .’ Pub date: March 2017 BOOKSELLER & PUBLISHER Format: 224pp – 129 x 198mm ‘Robert Newton’s latest young adult novel is Rights held: World a beautifully paced, poignant tale of courage, Right sold previous titles Runner: North America (Random loyalty and love. It must rank as one of the House, Knopf); The Black Dog Gang: Audio (WF Howes); best books of its genre this year . . . A strong, When We Were Two: Chinese Simplified (Guangxi Normal important story of loyalty and strength for University Press Group) readers aged 12 and up.’ SUNDAY AGE Division: Australia – Penguin ‘Faultlessly constructed and told with brilliantly understated, tragi-comic dialogue, this is the The new adventure from best-selling and award deeply moving story of two brothers journeying winning author, Robert Newton. from the bush to the coast on the eve of war. Living in the commission, Lexie is left to fend Enhanced by a Chaucerian cast of characters for herself. Her mother is mostly absent, out encountered along the way, it tells essentially searching for something to help her forget of a love of family that can survive separation the tragic death of Lexie’s dad. But then, and death itself. This is historical fiction of after witnessing the aftermath of a shocking rare accomplishment.’ AUSTRALIAN PRIME incident, Lexie finds solace in the most unlikely MINISTER’S LITERARY AWARDS, JUDGES’ of places – in a troubled old man called the COMMENTS Creeper. A chance, life-saving encounter on the ‘ . . . a delightful and compelling tale with a commission’s roof seeds a friendship between . . . vivid cast of characters . . . Robert Newton the two and when they enlist the help of Lexie’s tackles big themes – overcoming loss, being friend Davey, the three set off on an epic journey; comfortable in your own skin and not judging one that will change their lives and the lives of others based on their appearance – with humour those around them. and a light touch.’ BOOKS & PUBLISHING
OVER 10,000 COPIES SOLD IN AUSTRALIA OVER 60,000 AND COPIES SOLD NEW ZEALAND When We Were Two IN AUSTRALIA Robert Newton AND NEW ZEALAND Runner OCTOBER 2011 Robert Newton MAY 2005
OVER 12,000 The Black Dog COPIES SOLD Gang IN AUSTRALIA Robert Newton AND NEW ZEALAND SEPTEMBER 2007
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FELICE ARENA HAS SOLD OVER 500,000 COPIES IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
The Boy and the Spy FELICE ARENA is one of Australia’s best-loved Felice Arena children’s writers. He is the author and creator of many popular and award-winning children’s Pub date: April 2017 books for all ages, including Whippersnapper, Format: 176pp – 128 x 198mm the bestselling Specky Magee books and the Rights held: World popular Andy Roid series. Rights sold previous series Andy Roid series: Film (SLR Praise for the Andy Roid series Productions), Brazil (Editora Fundamento); Specky Magee series: Japan (Kodansha Ltd), Audio (Bolinda) ‘This book is designed for very young adults: Division: Australia – Penguin the print is big and the pages are few, but the story is pretty good. Andy Roid, the hero of the A thrilling wartime story from the bestselling series of which this book is the eighth, has been author of the Specky Magee series. upgraded, and he needs all his new powers — The war has begun. There are German soldiers he’s part machine — to cope with the baddies. on every corner, fearsome gangsters and the Andy and his partner, Judd, are undercover fascist police everywhere, and no one ever has to discover the headquarters of a nasty enough to eat. But when Antonio decides to corporation. The plot is fast-paced, there are lots trust a man who has literally fallen from the sky, of bangs and smashes, and the bad guys he leaps into an adventure that will change his sneer very well. It is just the sort of book to drag life and maybe even the future of Sicily . . . in a reluctant reader and keep them reading — For readers aged 9 and up, this is a thrilling and the sort of book that is a boon to teachers and moving story set against the backdrop of World school librarians.’ WEST AUSTRALIAN War II in Sicily. All readers will connect with the ‘Arena writes in his usual evocative, action- brave character of Antonio, and the central drenched style, with a fine balance of interesting message of doing what is right, and finding your characters – both likeable and unlikeable, using true family. short, sharp sentences with plenty of punch. Perfect boy fodder.’ KIDS-BOOKREVIEW.COM
TV RIGHTS SOLD TO SLR PRODUCTIONS December 2012 July 2012 July 2012 September 2012 September 2012
March 2012 June 2013 June 2013 August 2013 August 2013 20 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Middle Grade – Stand-alone © Emmanuel T. Santos
I am Sasha ANITA SELZER has a Bachelor of Arts (History Anita Selzer and Politics, Melbourne University), a Diploma of Education and a Master of Educational Studies. Pub date: February 2018 She has a Doctor of Philosophy in Education/ Format: 208pp – 128 x 198mm History, and has been a Lecturer and tutor Rights held: World in Politics and English at Swinburne College, Division: Australia – Penguin Executive Officer: Women’s Affairs – Premier’s Department of Victoria and a book reviewer for A page-turning and fascinating fictionalised Cambridge University Press. story based on real events of one Jewish boy’s experiences escaping detection in wartime Poland. She has published numerous articles and How do you try and forget things that change papers, many of them on gender issues, your life forever? Can you? Can you ever forget? education and educational policy. I don’t think you can. Or should. Now I thought of all the details of our apartment in Lwow, the walnut timber bedheads, the tiny details on the plasterwork round the ceiling. I remembered sobbing for ages one day, the day I had to wear a dress for the first time. I stood in front of a mirror and looked at me, dressed as a girl. The dress that saved my life. It’s 1942, and for a Jewish family living in Poland, every day is a search for food, and the need to hide their identity from the Nazi soldiers swarming the streets. Men and women are continually harassed, and soldiers would stop young boys and pull down their trousers to see if they were circumcised. I Am Sasha is the moving account of a mother’s S asha aged 12 © Anita Selzer braveness and ingenuity in saving the life of her beloved son. To prevent Sasha being discovered, she turns her 12-year-old son into a girl, Sala. Clothes, voice, hair, manners – all are a challenge to mother and son in a climate where the hunt for Jews is becoming more intense every day. The story sweeps backwards and forwards across occupied Europe, and the courage and resourcefulness of the families in this remarkable story make for enthralling reading. A compelling story based on real events, which takes the reader directly to the heart of occupied Poland in the 1940s.
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The Fighting Stingrays SIMON MITCHELL worked as a computer Simon Mitchell programmer before deciding to branch out and ‘try writing in a language that consisted of more than 1’s and 0’s’. He has completed a Diploma Pub date August 2017 in Professional Writing and Editing at Royal Format: 288pp – 128 x 198mm Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he Rights held: World wrote the first draft of The Baked Bean Bandit. Division: Australia – Penguin Other titles by Simon include Do You Dare Tough A historical middle grade fiction adventure set on Times, three Aussie Bites and the picture book Thursday Island during World War II. Louie the Pirate Chef. www.simonmitchell.com.au What would you do if you were suddenly told your best friend was now the enemy? It’s December 1941 and the Fighting Stingrays are a tight group of three 12-year-old boys – Charlie, Alf and Masa. As the threat of war on Australian soil looms, the boys are giddy with excitement, role playing bombing missions and all other manner of imaginary warfare. But, when Japan enters WW2, things become very different. Masa, the son of a Japanese pearl diver, is immediately targeted by army officer Captain Maddox as they round up all the Japanese to send them to internment camps. The boys decide to rescue Masa from Captain Maddox’s clutches and enter a dangerous game of cat and mouse on the © Drew Echberg island and abroad. Maybe, when it comes to war, everyone is a baddie.
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WE WILL PUBLISH BOOK 2 IN OCTOBER 2017 AND BOOK 3 IN MARCH 2018
Tarin of the Mammoths (Book 1): Sales Points The Exile • Set 6000 years ago, this fast-paced Jo Sandhu adventure delves into a world of spirits and mysticism not often seen in children’s Pub date: March 2017 literature. Perfect for lovers of Michelle Format: 288pp – 129 x 198mm Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Rights held: World series, Spirit Animals and Emily Rodda’s Division: Australia – Penguin Rowan of Rin. • Great immersive prehistoric setting, lovely For lovers of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient animal characters (wolf cubs, owl, bear) Darkness series and Spirit Animals comes this and strong boy and girl characters, with the exciting new Stone Age adventure series for middle narrative switching between Tarin (boy) and readers. Kaija (girl). Tarin longs to hunt with the rest of the men in • Tarin is a terrific role model of a boy with a Mammoth clan, but his crippled leg means he disability who overcomes many obstacles is feared and bullied. When he ruins the last and learns to have faith in himself and mammoth hunt of the season, and the clan’s recognise his many strengths. survival is in jepoardy, Tarin is forced to travel across savage wild lands to ask for help. When • This is a trilogy, with each book being he rescues orphaned twins Kaija and Luuka and published 6 months apart, so we will enjoy two wolf cubs from the savage Boar Clan, Tarin good momentum with readers. realises that if they are all to survive he must conquer his greatest fear – his true self – and embrace the magic that is hiding within him. Growing up, JO SANDHU was sure she was going to be a Shakespearean actress or a pianist, and gained her Associate Diploma in Speech and Drama. However, on leaving school she spent a year in Finland as a Rotary Exchange Student before returning to Australia and working in the banking sector in Training and Development and Human Resources. Her short stories have been highly commended in numerous competitions, including the FAW Mary Grant Bruce Award for Children’s Literature, and the CYA Later Alligator Competition (Brisbane) in both the Children’s and YA sections. She is a member of Queensland Writers Centre and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
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WE WILL PUBLISH BOOKS 3 AND 4 IN AUGUST 2018
Vet Cadets (Book 1): Welcome to Vet Cadets (Book 2): Pudding in Willowvale Peril Rebecca Johnson Rebecca Johnson
Pub date: May 2017 Pub date: May 2017 Format: 192pp – 129 x 198mm Rights held: World In this second adventure, Tabina’s horse Rights sold previous series Juliet Nearly a Vet: Norway Pudding falls perilously ill during a major (Juritzen Forlag), Czech Republic (Nakladat Elstvi competition day. Abbey, Tabina and Hannah’s Fragment), Slovakia (Vydavatel’stvo Fragment), Brazil budding vet skills are put to the test – can they (Editora Fundamento) solve the mystery of Pudding’s illness before it’s Division: Australia – Penguin too late?
A great new series about three smart, funny, REBECCA JOHNSON is an award-winning animal-loving girls solving mysteries and Australian author, part-time primary causing chaos at their country boarding school. school science teacher and mother of two. In 2015 she received the Prime Minister’s Willowvale is an country boarding school that Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in runs a special animal husbandry program for Primary Schools. In 2010 Rebecca received talented students. New vet cadets Hannah, the Peter Doherty Award for Excellence in Abbey and Tabina find themselves sharing Science Teaching. Her ‘Juliet’ series won the a room – and before long the new friends Environmental Award for Children’s Literature, find themselves using their scientific skills, 2014 (Bush Baby Rescue), was nominated for knowledge of animals and friendship to solve the CBCA younger readers section (2014 and mysteries and get themselves into – and out of – 2015), and nominated for the Adelaide Festival tight spots and hilarious situations! Awards for Literature (2014). Her best-selling series of page-turning adventures featuring Australian wildlife (Steve Parish Storybook REBECCA JOHNSON’S Collection) has sold more than 2.6 million JULIET NEARLY A VET copies. Her Insect Series (published by SERIES HAS SOLD OVER Pascal Press) was winner of the 2014 Whitley 56,000 COPIES IN Commendation for Best Educational Series. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
APRIL 2013 APRIL 2013 JUNE 2013
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History Mysteries (Book 1): History Mysteries (Book 3): Diamond Jack Lasseter’s Gold Mark Greenwood Mark Greenwood
Pub date: February 2017 Pub date: June 2017 Format: 96pp – 129 x 198mm It’s 1930, and a man named Harold Lasseter Rights held: World claims to have found a massive gold reef in Division: Australia – Penguin Central Australia. In the excitement that follows, he attempts to find it again. On his journey Delve into some of Australian history’s most across the desert he buries maps and secret baffling mysteries! messages beneath the ashes of his campfires, Can you solve this wartime mystery? Investigate before taking the mysterious location of the Australia’s extraordinary past and find riches treasure to his grave . . . beyond belief! In March 1942, an aircraft prepares for a History Mysteries (Book 4): desperate midnight escape, taking refugees The Last Tiger to safety in Australia. Just before take-off, the Mark Greenwood pilot is entrusted with a mysterious, wax-sealed package. But when the plane is shot down by Pub date: June 2017 the enemy and crash-lands on the Kimberley On September 7, 1936, the last captive coast, the package is forgotten. Until someone Tasmanian tiger dies alone and neglected in stumbles across the find of lifetime . . . a Hobart zoo. Since then many people claim to have sighted this amazing creature. Did the History Mysteries (Book 2): entire species vanish forever on that bleak night? The Lost Explorer No one can prove the tiger still exists, but could a determined searcher and modern science Mark Greenwood provide a glimmer of hope? Pub date: February 2017 MARK GREENWOOD’s books include Will you crack this famous cold case? Investigate Jandamarra with Terry Denton, and Simpson Australia’s extraordinary past and unravel what and his Donkey with Frané Lessac. His award- happened to the lost explorer! winning books about Australia’s history have In 1848 the famous explorer Ludwig Leichhardt been published around the world. sets out on an epic journey. His aim is to cross Australia from east to west, but he never reaches his destination and no one from his expedition is ever seen again. Countless search parties set out to look for the expedition but no trace is ever found. Until a young boy is given an artefact with an incredible story . . .
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Frankie Potts and the Sparkplug Frankie Potts and the Postcard Mysteries (Book 1) Puzzle (Book 3) Juliet Jacka and Phoebe Morris (illus.) Juliet Jacka and Phoebe Morris (illus.)
Pub date: July 2016 Pub date: February 2017 Format: 112pp – 128 x 198mm Frankie’s list of mysteries to solve is getting Rights held: World longer by the day. Firstly, her mum is acting Division: New Zealand – Penguin very strangely – she’s tired, grumpy and feels sick all the time. And then there’s Grandma M, Meet Frankie Potts, the village of Tring’s who keeps dropping hints about expanding her number one girl detective. She has flaming red troupe of performing greyhounds: Tinkerbell, hair, a questioning mind and an addiction to Titania and Tiramisu. gobstoppers. And she is REALLY good at solving mysteries. Frankie Potts and the Wicked When Frankie is adopted by a dog at the window Wolves (Book 4) of her favourite sweetshop, there’s detecting Juliet Jacka and Phoebe Morris (illus.) to be done. The dog, Sparkplug, is adorable. Even Frankie’s formidable Grandma M goes all Pub date: February 2017 soft and goopy in his presence. Sparkplug can A band of dancers with bells and blue painted ride a skateboard like a pro, high-five, dance faces have come to Tring, and Frankie can smell on his hind legs and sniff out a mystery two a mystery. Who are these Wicked Wolves? How houses away. He’s the ideal dog for a detective. come Grandma M knows them, and wants to Sparkplug wants to stay with Frankie, and pick a fight with them? Meanwhile, Tinkerbell Frankie would dearly love to keep him — but and Sparkplug’s seven adorable puppies are where is he from? causing chaos at Frankie’s house. Grandma M is planning to give away four of them, and Frankie Frankie Potts and the Bikini and Mac must make sure that they go to good Burglar (Book 2) homes. Ralph Peter-McGee, Frankie’s arch- Juliet Jacka and Phoebe Morris (illus.) enemy, seems to have his eye on her favourite pup Kettle Thomson. Can Frankie stop Kettle Pub date: July 2016 going to the wrong home? And why are those Frankie is on the lookout for a human detective Wicked Wolves sniffing around the puppies? sidekick to share her caseload. Finding the right person isn’t as easy as you’d think, and she’s Praise for Frankie Potts and the never had more to juggle. Meanwhile, Tring is on Sparkplug Mysteries high alert – a burglar is on the loose. Random pink items, most notably a bikini belonging to ‘This is a fun series with a great title character, Frankie’s teacher, are disappearing from houses delinquent archenemies and endless mysteries all over the village. to solve. Not just for girls.’ OTAGO DAILY TIMES ‘Frankie Potts is a new character that kids JULIET JACKA’s first book Night of the Perigee (especially girls) are going to love. She’s Moon won the 2013 Tom Fitzgibbon Storylines inquisitive, confident and observant . . . the Award and was published in 2014 by Scholastic. Frankie Potts series is full of excitement, Her story The Keeper of Spirit Hill was shortlisted adventure and lots of fun.’ MY BEST FRIENDS in Tom Fitzgibbon competitions in 2011 and 2013. ARE BOOKS In 2015, PHOEBE MORRIS collaborated with author David Hill on the acclaimed picture book Praise for Frankie Potts and the Bikini biography of Sir Edmund Hillary, First to the Burglar Top. Unanimously praised for the quality of the ‘Good values, plenty of humour and characters illustrations, it was named a 2016 Storylines that stand out.’ BOB’S BOOK BLOG Notable Picture Book. Creative New Zealand invites applications for funding towards the translation of these titles. towards funding Creative New Zealand invites applications for www.publishers.org.nz/translation-grants/
26 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Middle Grade – Bestselling Series © Morris Gleitzman MORRIS GLEITZMAN grew up in England and came to Australia when he was sixteen. After university he worked for ten years as a screenwriter. Then he had a wonderful experience. He wrote a novel for young people. Now, after 38 books, he’s one of Australia’s most OVER popular children’s authors. Visit Morris at his 360,000 website: morrisgleitzman.com. COPIES OF THE Awards SERIES SOLD IN AUSTRALIA Once AND • Honour Book, 2006 Children’s Book Council NEW ZEALAND Book of the Year Awards • Nominee, 2010 German Youth Literature Prize Then • Winner, UK Literacy Association Book Award Maybe 2010 Morris Gleitzman • Honour Book, 2009 Children’s Book Council Pub date: September 2017 Book of the Year Awards Format: 192pp – 135 x 216mm Now Rights held: World • Winner, YABBA & COOL Children’s Choice Rights sold in the Felix series: North America (Macmillan, Awards Henry Holt), United Kingdom (Penguin, Puffin), Chinese • Winner, Best Book for Language in the Simplified (Shanghai Zui Co.), Czech Republic (Argo Speech Pathology Awards spol.), France (Éditions des Grandes Personnes), • Shortlisted, 2010 UK Guardian Award in 2010 Germany (Carlsen Verlag), Hungary (Cicero), Italy • Shortlisted, 2011 Australian Prime Minister’s (Mondadori Editore), Japan (Asunaro Shobo), Norway Literary Award (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag), Brazil (Paz e Terra), Slovenia After (Mis Zalozba), Spain (Editorial Kailas), UK Audio (BBC), • Notable Book, 2013 Children’s Book Council ANZ Audio (Bolinda Publishing) of the Year Award for Younger Readers Division: Australia – Penguin • Winner, Speech Pathology Australia • Longlisted, 2013 UK Literacy Association The next compelling chapter in the life of Felix, Award hero of the award-winning Once, Then, After, Soon Soon and Now. • Winner, 2016 Children’s Book Council of the 1946. Europe is in ruins. Millions of people dream Year Award for Younger Readers of finding happiness somewhere else. • Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award. Fourteen year old Felix is one of them. When he’s offered a journey to Australia, he seizes the Praise for Soon opportunity. So does someone very dear to him, ‘Soon, the newest instalment in Morris even though she wasn’t actually invited. Gleitzman’s Once, Then, After and Now series, They have high hopes for Australia, and their is an awesomely epic adventure starring a boy dramatic arrival there makes them want to stay. named Felix . . . I really enjoyed this amazing But before Felix and Anya can embrace the story. It is the best book I have ever read! It is love and friendship of their new land, they must imaginative and I finished it within 2 weeks! I confront the murderous urge for revenge still never wanted to put this amazing and thrilling alive in the old. story down. And as Morris says “Their stories are Felix knows he hasn’t faced anything like this the real stories”.’ THE GUARDIAN before. WINNER He may not survive, but he’s hoping he will. OF THE CBCA Maybe. BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016
AUGUST 2005 JUNE 2008 JULY 2012 JUNE 2015 MAY 2010
27 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Middle Grade – Bestselling Series
The Kingdom of the Lost ISOBELLE CARMODY is one of Australia’s most highly acclaimed authors of fantasy. At (Book 3): The Ice Maze fourteen, she began Obernewtyn, the first book Isobelle Carmody in her much-loved Obernewtyn Chronicles, and Pub date: July 2017 has since written many works in this genre. Her novel The Gathering was joint winner of the 1993 Format: 240pp – 128 x 198mm Children’s Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 Rights held: World CBCA Book of the Year Award, and Greylands Rights sold previous titles in this series: Chinese was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Simplified (Beijing Children’s Publishing House), Audio Excellence in Speculative Fiction (Young Adult (Bolinda) category), and was named a White Raven at the Division: Australia – Penguin 1998 Bologna Children’s Book Fair. The third book in The Kingdom of the Lost series Isobelle’s work for younger readers includes her by the award-winning and best-selling author, two series, The Legend of Little Fur, and The Isobelle Carmody. Kingdom of the Lost, the first book of which, The Beautifully illustrated by Isobelle, this third Red Wind, won the CBCA Book of the Year Award instalment takes the brothers Zluty and Bily into for Younger Readers in 2011. She has also written a perilous world unknown to them . . . a place several picture books as well as collections of that should feel familiar and yet danger persists. short stories for children, young adults and But they must endure the challenges if they are adults. ever to find where they belong. After living in Europe for more than a decade, these days Isobelle divides her time in Australia between her home on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, and Brisbane, where she is working on a PhD at the University of Queensland.
WINNER CBCA Kingdom of the Lost BOOK OF THE (Book 1): The Red Wind YEAR AWARD FOR YOUNGER Isobelle Carmody READERS 2011 JUNE 2010
Kingdom of the Lost (Book 2): The Cloud Road Isobelle Carmody MAY 2013
28 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE © Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
‘It is a truth universally © Penguin Australia Pty Ltd acknowledged, that a bum in possession of some gas, must Middle Grade – Bestselling Series – Non-fictionbe in want of a fart.’ Jane Austink © Penguin Australia Pty Ltd A spread from Ickypedia ‘It is a truth universally NOT FINAL COVER © acknowledged,Penguin Australia that a bum in Pty Ltd
possession of some gas, must CHEEKFREAK be in want of a fart.’ CAR PET Jane Austink A pet that ‘It is a truth universally lives in acknowledged, that a bum in your car. possession of some gas, must‘It is a truth universally be in want of a fart.’acknowledged, that a bum in Jane Austink possession of some gas, must be in want of a fart.’ Jane Austink
CAST OFF!
When you take off a plaster cast that’s been on for ages and it smells totally off .
CHANCERS
Answers you give on the off - chance they might be right.
CHATTER SPLATTER
A bit of food that comes fl ying out of your mouth as you speak.
CHEEKFREAK
An aunty/uncle/random friend of your parents who always wants to kiss you hello on the cheek.
really brainy. Now, 24 of them had part-time jobs at HUNGRY YAKS, so the mathematicians ate there 25 times so they could make friends with the brainy yaks
Ickyfoodia (Book 2) RICHARD HIGGINS is one half of the Melbourne based comedic duo The Listies. Together with The Listies (Richard Higgins and Matt MATT KELLY, the duo make and perform comedy Kelly) for kids and adults. Originally meeting each other during theatre class at uni, they enjoyed Pub date: October 2017 performing together so much they decided to Format: 192pp – 129 x 198mm make it official. Rights held: World Division: Australia – Penguin Their show called More Fun than a Wii was the first show for kids nominated for the best show The ultimate guide to gross and disgusting food. award at the Melbourne International Comedy With the first Ickypedia the Listies tried to make Festival in 2010, and went on to tour nationally an entirely un-educational gross and silly book. and internationally, receiving rave 5 star reviews But could it be grosser? Could it be sillier? Could at the Edinburgh Fringe. it be less educational? With these challenges in Ickypedia, an encyclopedia of sorts filled with wit mind The Listies have made a new book. One and humour for children with illustrations from that got gross and then turned it up by 11 million Higgins, was the duo’s first book. on the gross scale. They realised that there is only one way to make a disgusting thing even Praise for The Listies more disgusting: to try and eat it! ‘No-one else does comedy for kids this brilliantly.’ Special features: SYDNEY MORNING HERALD • A CROOKBOOK full of INGROSSIENTS to make every kid into a DISASTERCHEF. • COOKING DESTRUCTIONS. • A guide to the world’s worst RESTAURWRONGS. • Full of smelly and just plain disgusting words, scribbles, bonkers definitions, food unfacts and packed with crazy illustrations. © Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
‘It is a truth universally © The Listies acknowledged, that a bum in possession of some gas, must be in want of a fart.’ Jane Austink
© Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Ickypedia © Penguin Australia‘It is a truth Pty universally Ltd The Listies acknowledged, that a bum in possession of some gas, must be in want of a fart.’ OCTOBER 2015 Jane Austink
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a bum in possession of some gas, must be in want of a fart.’ Jane Austink
29 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Middle Grade – Bestselling Series
Snot Chocolate Sales Points Morris Gleitzman • Morris Gleitzman’s books are published in 25 countries. Pub date: November 2016 • Morris is one of the most popular children’s Format: 176pp – 129 x 198mm authors in Australia, as the sales figures Rights held: World for his books continually testify. Once Rights sold previous titles Give Peas a Chance: United has sold close to 142,000 copies since its Kingdom (Penguin Random House, Puffin), Audio release in 2005, while his hugely popular (Bolinda); Pizza Cake: Audio (Bolinda) Boy Overboard has sold in excess of 233,000 Division: Australia – Penguin copies since its publication in 2002. A collection of short stories in the popular style of • Morris’ books dominate the children’s choice Morris’ Give Peas a Chance and Pizza Cake – except, awards, and there is a huge supply of fans of course, even funnier! awaiting his novels as they are published. In the title story, a kid struggles to save the Praise for Pizza Cake career and reputation of a parent afflicted with chronic unconscious nose-picking. ‘ . . . the rambunctious imagination that has made [Morris Gleitzman] one of Australia’s MORRIS GLEITZMAN grew up in England best-loved writers of children’s fiction shows no and came to Australia when he was sixteen. sign of losing steam . . . Gleitzman’s quirk and After university he worked for ten years as humour unfurl in this short-story collection, a screenwriter. Then he had a wonderful always catching the breeze of his human experience. He wrote a novel for young people. intelligence.’ THE SATURDAY AGE Now, after 38 books, he’s one of Australia’s most popular children’s authors. ‘This collection of short stories is done in true Morris Gleitzman style. Funny, engaging and surprising, they are sure to find an appreciative audience . . . with something for everyone . . . All in all, they will be enjoyed, pored over and re- read countless times, from mid primary age up. This collection would be well used in a primary, high school or public library.’ READING TIME
OVER OVER 49,000 COPIES 25,000 COPIES SOLD IN SOLD IN AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND
JULY 2007 OCTOBER 2011
30 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Middle Grade – Bestselling Series
Kizmet and the Case of the Pirate Praise for Kizmet and the Case of the Treasure (Book 3) Tassie Tiger Frank Woodley ‘Best known as the goofy, rubber-limbed Pub date: October 2017 comedian, Frank Woodley’s new project is the mystery adventures of a tomboy named Kizmet Format: 112pp – 129 x 198mm . . . Along with Kizmet’s detective father – who’s Rights held: World more a liability than a help – they’ve been Rights sold Books 1 and 2: Audio (Bolinda) responsible for putting away a ‘‘cartload of Division: Australia – Penguin crooks and a busload of baddies’’. Woodley From Frank Woodley, much-loved comedian, writes as easily as he makes silly faces . . . A good storyteller and talented artist, comes a hilarious start to a series.’ SUNDAY AGE series about an inquisitive young girl, a cheeky currawong bird and a bumbling detective. When the IMPACT headquarters are attacked and one of their fellow agents is kidnapped, Kizmet, Gretchen and Detective Spencer are sent to investigate the mysterious crime. They’re plunged into the age-old world of looting pirates and secret treasure. Can the gang solve the ancient riddle before the deadly deadline? FRANK WOODLEY is built from funny – it’s in his bones. Whether he’s being a comedian, clown, actor or acrobat, he is constantly creating characters and worlds to engage audiences of all ages. Since emerging from the acclaimed duo Lano and Woodley in 2006, Frank has created four new stage shows, and his own ABC series Woodley – written, produced and starring Frank as the title character opposite Justine Clarke.
July 2015 July 2015
31 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Middle Grade – Bestselling series
Super Con–Nerd OLIVER PHOMMAVANH is a young Thai- Oliver Phommavanh Australian writer for children. He has made appearances at many of the leading writing Pub date: June 2017 festivals, including the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Format: 192pp – 129 x 198mm He has worked as a primary school teacher and Rights held: World now spends his time writing and sharing his Rights sold previous titles Con-nerd: Korea (Danielstone writing passion with kids and engaging them Publishing); Thai-riffic: Audio (W F Howes) with humour. He’s also a stand-up comedian and Division: Australia – Penguin has appeared on national TV and radio as well as a number of well-known comedy venues such In his signature style, Oliver Phommavanh delivers as the Comedy Store in Sydney. His first book, this hilarious take on starting high school in his Thai-riffic!, was published in June 2010 to critical follow on book from Con-nerd. acclaim, followed by Con-nerd in 2011, Punchlines and Thai-no-mite in 2012, and Ethan in the Stuff Hi, I’m Connor and I’m a nerd. I thought I knew all Happens series in 2015. there was to being one. But there are better nerds out there. Super nerds. Hyper nerds. Super, hyper Awards for Con-nerd nerds. I thought all nerds were smart. But that’s not true, because suddenly I don’t feel so bright • Shortlisted, 2016 REAL Children’s Choice anymore . . . Awards Our favourite character from Con-nerd returns • Nominated, 2014 Sakura Medal (Japan) in Super Con-nerd, where he finally makes it into a selective high school. If he thought the competition was intense to get into a selective school, it’s tougher on the inside. Connor feels like everybody else is smarter than him and is trying to play catch up with the other super nerds, like Andrew Thompson who is top of his class. Connor’s mum has loosened up and lets Connor draw his comics like Fireproof Knights, as long as his grades are good. Luckily, there’s no report cards after the first week of school . . .
Con-nerd Oliver Phommavanh JUNE 2011
32 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Middle Grade – Bestselling Series
FELICE ARENA’S PREVIOUS SERIES SPECKY MAGEE HAS SOLD OVER 370,000 COPIES IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Sporty Kids: Netball Sporty Kids: Little Athletics Felice Arena and Tom Jellet (illus.) Felice Arena and Tom Jellet (illus.)
Pub date: September 2016 Pub date: Feburary 2017 Format: 80pp – 129 x 198mm Rights held: World Lucy willed herself to run faster. But the girl was sprinting ahead of her! This can’t be happening, Division: Australia – Penguin she thought. Get sporty with these great new books for Lucy loves being a champion at Little Athletics. beginner readers. But what if she can’t win first place? Lizzie knew everything there was to know about netball. Her dream was to become a famous Praise for Sporty Kids netball coach one day . . . Lizzie loves to talk ‘Felice Arena’s new series is very approachable about netball. So why don’t her teammates want . . . First, in its subject matter – the series to listen? plans to cover all the most-loved sports . . . and will feature girls as well as boys as the main FELICE ARENA is one of Australia’s best-loved characters. And secondly, in the just-right text for children’s writers. He is the author and creator a reader starting chapter books, who still loves of many popular and award-winning children’s the reassurance of a few illustrations, larger books for all ages, including Whippersnapper, font and manageable sentences.’ READINGS the bestselling Specky Magee books and the WEEKEND READS popular Andy Roid series.
MAY 2015 MAY 2015 SEPTEMBER 2015 SEPTEMBER 2015 MAY 2016 MAY 2016 SEPTEMBER 2016
33 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Middle Grade – Bestselling Series
Our Australian Girl: The Lina SALLY RIPPIN was born in Darwin and grew up in South-East Asia. As a young adult she studied Stories traditional Chinese painting for three years in Sally Rippin Shanghai and Hangzhou, which inspired her Pub date: October 2017 first novel Chenxi and the Foreigner. Sally is the Format: 480pp –129 x 198 mm author of many books for children, including Rights held: World the popular Billie B Brown and Hey Jack! series, Angel Division: Australia – Penguin and the highly acclaimed children’s novel Creek. Currently, she lives in Melbourne and Four stories by best-selling author Sally Rippin in writes and illustrates full time. one spectacularly bound collection as part of the Our Australian Girl series. It’s 1956 and Lina dreams of being a writer, but her strict Italian parents have other ideas. Now that she’s won a scholarship to an expensive girls school, Lina has other troubles, too. But the Melbourne Olympic Games could be an opportunity for Lina to follow her dream of working on the school paper. Journey with Lina across all four exciting stories about a passionate girl finding a place to belong. Imaginative, kind and hard-working, Lina is an unforgettable Australian Girl.
OCTOBER 2013 NOVEMBER 2014 OCTOBER 2015 MARCH 2015 OCTOBER 2016 JUNE 2017
34 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Middle Grade – Non-fiction
Dragons, Devils and Rebels Alison Lloyd And Terry Denton (illus.)
Pub date: April 2017 Format: 216pp – 129 x 198mm Rights held: World Rights sold for Alison Lloyd’s Year of the Tiger: North America (Holiday House), France (Editions Flammarion); Wicked Warriors and Evil Empires: Korea (Oz Books) Division: Australia – Penguin
For anyone who likes their history funny, gruesome, action-packed and thrilling – the true page-turning story of the end of the Qing empire. Illustrated by Terry Denton, illustrator of the best-selling Andy Griffiths’ series ‘Just’ and ‘Treehouse’. When an unknown girl marries the Emperor of China, can she take control and stay in power? Could you? Imagine you were faced with: DRAGONS – Emperors who had run China for two thousand years! DEVILS – Strange foreigners invading with guns and ships! REBELS – Chinese bandits and warriors with supernatural powers! Qing Dynasty China is a huge old empire and the fight for its future has begun . . . Enter the dragon empire. Explore the epic, true story of Empress Cixi. By the creators of Wicked Warriors and Evil Emperors. ALISON LLOYD is also the author of the CBCA shortlisted non-fiction title Wicked Warriors and Evil Emperors and the Letty books in the Australian Girl series. Before she wrote Year of the Tiger, Alison worked for the Australian Government, in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. TERRY DENTON is among Australia’s busiest literary creative forces. Terry’s books have been published extensively internationally, including in the United Kingdom, China, Estonia, Korea, Taiwain, South Africa and Spain.
35 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE More Awards and Nominations 2016
The First Third by Will Kostakis Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2016 – Young Adult Fiction
My Life and Other Massive Mistakes by Tristan Bancks and Gus Gordon (illus.) Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Older Readers
Being Magdalene by Fleur Beale Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Young Adult
New Boy by Nick Earls Winner, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Eight to Ten Years Recommended, Australian Family Therapist’s Award 2016 – Younger Readers
Paper Planes by Steve Worland Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Eight to Ten Years Longlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 – Book of the Year for Older Children Longlisted, Indie Book Awards 2016 – Children’s
The Forgotten Pearl by Belinda Murrell Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Older Readers
Specky Magee and the Best of Oz by Felice Arena and Garry Lyon Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Older Readers
Ghost Club 2: The Haunted School by Deborah Abela Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Fiction for Younger Readers
Helix and the Arrival by Damean Posner Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Younger Readers
The Greatest Gatsby: A Visual Book of Grammar by Tohby Riddle Shortlisted, Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2016 – Children’s Fiction Selected for the White Raven International Youth Library 2016
Beginner’s Guide to Rugby by Aaron Cruden Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Non-fiction
Beginner’s Guide to Adventure Sport by Steve Gurney Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Non-fiction
36 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE More Awards and Nominations 2016
The Worm Who Knew Karate by Jill Lever and Terry Denton (illus.) Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Three to Five Years
Once I Heard a Little Wombat by Renée Treml Winner, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Birth to Three Years Joint Winner, Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2016 – Picture Fiction
How Big is Too Small by Jane Godwin and Andrew Joyner (illus.) Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Three to Five Years
Something Wonderful by Raewyn Caisley and Karen Blair (illus.) Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Three to Five Years
A Patch from Scratch by Megan Forward Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Five to Eight Years
Hello From Nowhere by Raewyn Caisley and Karen Blair (illus.) Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier’s Award 2016 – Children’s Books Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2016 – Children’s Literature Shortlisted, WAYRBA Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Picture Books
Our Island by Alison Lester and Elizabeth Honey Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier’s Award 2016 – Children’s Books
My Dog Bigsy by Alison Lester Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood Longlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 – Book of the Year for Younger Children Longlisted, Indie Book Awards 2016 – Children’s
Eye to Eye by Graeme Base Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Picture Book Longlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 – Book of the Year for Younger Children
For the Forest of a Bird by Sue Saliba Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Older Readers
I’m a Hungry Dinosaur by Janeen Brian and Ann James (illus.) Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Birth to Three Years
Meet… Weary Dunlop by Claire Saxby and Jeremy Lord (illus.) Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Crichton Award for New Illustrators
What Do You Wish For? by Jane Godwin and Anna Walker (illus.) Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood
Why I Love Footy by Michael Wagner and Tom Jellett (illus.) Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Picture Book
Stripes! No, Spots! by Vasanti Unka Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Picture Book
Roly the Anzac Donkey by Glyn Harper and Jenny Cooper (illus.) Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Picture Book
Henry’s Stars by David Elliot Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Picture Book
37 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE RIGHTS SOLD JANUARY TO AUGUST 2016
Frankie The Hush Shivaun Plozza Skye Melki-Wegner North America (Flatiron North America (SkyHorse) Books)
Special The Children of the King Georgia Blain Sonya Hartnett France (Editions Casterman) Russia (Ooo Izdatelstvo Albus Corvus); previous rights sales include: North America excl. Canada (Candlewick Press), United Kingdom (Scholastic), France (Éditions des Grandes Personnes), The Things I Didn’t Say Canada (Penguin), Kylie Fornasier Italy (Rizzoli Libri), Sweden (Atrium Forlag), France (Fleurus Editions) Mexico (Ediciones Castillo), Audio (Bolinda)
Brotherband: The Invaders (2) John Flanagan Lithuania (Neiko rimto) Brotherband: Slaves of Socorro (4) Once John Flanagan Morris Gleitzman Sweden (B Wahlstroms) Brazil (Paz e Terra), Czech Republic (Argo spol. S.r.o); Brotherband: Scorpion Mountain (5) Then John Flanagan Morris Gleitzman Sweden (B Wahlstroms) Brazil (Paz e Terra); previous rights sales in this series include: Brotherband: The Ghostfaces (6) United Kingdom (Penguin/Puffin), John Flanagan Chinese Simplified (Shanghai Zui Co.), Denmark (Nordisk Forlag), France (Editions des Grandes Personnes), The Netherlands (Gottmer), Germany (Carlsen Verlag), Poland (Jaguar), Hungary (Cicero), Italy (Mondadori), Taiwan (Core Culture); Japan (Asunaro Shobo), previous rights sales in this series Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), include: Slovenia (Mis Zalozba), North America (Philomel/Penguin), Spain (Editorial Kailas), United Kingdom (Random House), Audio UK (BBC), Audio ANZ (Bolinda) Brazil (Editora Fundamento) Czech Republic (Egmont), Germany (Random House),
38 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE MORE RIGHTS SOLD JANUARY TO AUGUST 2016
Alice-Miranda Takes the Lead (3) Friday Barnes: Big Trouble (3) Jacqueline Harvey and Friday Barnes: No Rules (4) R.A. Spratt Hungary (Mano Konyvek); previous rights sales include: North America (Macmillan US, United Kingdom (Random House), Roaring Brook Press); North America (Random House), previous rights sales include: Brazil (Editora Fundamento), Brazil (Editora Fundamento) Turkey (Artemis Yayinlari), Indonesia (Hikmah), Hungary (Mano Konyvek), Audio (Audible), Floods: Neighbours (1) Film option (SLR Productions) Colin Thompson Lithuania (Neiko rimto); previous rights sales include: My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up (1), Italy (Lantana Editore), My Life and Other Stuff That Went Brazil (Escarlate/Brinque Books), Wrong (2) and My Life and Other Audio (Bolinda) Massive Mistakes (3) Tristan Bancks Brazil (Editora Fundamento); previous rights sales include: Jinny & Cooper: My Teacher’s Turkey (Epsilon Yayincilik), Big Bad Secret (1) and Jinny Chinese Simpified (Zhejiang Literature & & Cooper: Revenge of the Art Publishing House) Stone Witch (2) Tania Ingram Spain (Desclee de Brouwer) Samurai vs Ninja: The Battle for the Golden Egg (1) and Samuari vs Ninja: Race for the Shogun’s Teasure (2) Nick Falk and Tony Flowers Spain (Desclee de Brouwer); The Gobbledygook and the previous rights sales include: Scribbledynoodle Sweden (B Wahlstroms) Justine Clarke and Arthur Baysting Samurai vs Ninja: Day of the Dreadful Undead (3) and The Curse of the Oni Korea (Noran Sang Sang) (4) Nick Falk and Tony Flowers Sweden (B Wahlstroms)
Little Bug Books: Birds Fly Ziba Came on a Boat Little Bug Books: Cows Say Moo Liz Lofthouse Little Bug Books: Herd of Elephants Taiwan (Grennland Creative Co.); Little Bug Books: Monkeys Live in Trees previous rights sales include: Little Bug Books: Pigs Have Piglets and North America (Kane Miller), Little Bug Books: Starfish Spain (Loguez Ediciones), Graeme Base Korea (Bom Bom Books) China (Shanghai All One Culture Diffusion Co. Ltd)
39 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE MORE RIGHTS SOLD JANUARY TO AUGUST 2016
How Big is Too Small? Little Cat and the Big Red Bus Jane Godwin and China (Phoenix Juvenile & What Do You Wish For? Children’s Publishing House) Jane Godwin and Anna Walker China (Guangxi Normal University Press Group); previous rights sales include: Taiwan (Abula Press), Chinese Simplified (Jiangsu Phoenix Juvenile & Children’s Publishing), France (Editions Circonflexe), Japan (Mitsumura Educational), Korea (Bluebird Publishing)
This is a Circle Chrissie Krebs North America (SkyHorse), Spain (Editorial Heliasta SRL)
40 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE MEET THE CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING TEAM
Laura Harris Publishing Director – Penguin Random House Young Readers Laura oversees the wonderful children’s lists at Penguin Random House Australia. Penguin and Random House Young Readers publish every book a child could ever want – at all stages of childhood from very young picture books, to the most sophisticated of Young Adult novels – and everything in between. Critically acclaimed and best-selling authors pepper the lists including Jeff Kinney, John Flanagan, Jacqueline Harvey, Morris Gleitzman and Mem Fox. Laura has edited and shaped many of the books on the list over her 18 years with the company including works by Mem Fox, Melina Marchetta, Sonya Hartnett, Morris Gleitzman, Aaron Blabey and Felice Arena, to name but a few. Laura has been a literary judge on many awards, both in Adult and Children’s areas, has lectured in Editing and Publishing and has had numerous reviews and articles published. And while often asked, she has checked with her doctor, who assures her she doesn’t have a novel in her.
Lisa Riley Publisher, Penguin Young Readers Lisa Riley has been a Puffin for 14 years and is currently a Publisher with the Penguin Young Readers Group. Previously she worked for ABC Books and at Walker Books in both Sydney and London. She publishes across the age range from books for babies, picture books, commercial junior fiction series through to standalone novels for middle and YA readers. She has worked with many established and debut children’s authors and illustrators – recent highlights include I’m a Dirty Dinosaur by Janeen Brian and Ann James, the Juliet Nearly a Vet series by Rebecca Johnson, the novelisation of the film Paper Planes and the brilliant YA debut, Yellow by Megan Jacobson.
Heather Curdie Commissioning Editor, Penguin Young Readers Heather Curdie is a Commissioning Editor for Penguin Young Readers. She works on a wide range of children’s books from picture books and middle fiction through to young adult. While with Penguin, she has been fortunate to edit such great writers and illustrators as Morris Gleitzman, Oliver Phommavanh, Robert Newton, Andrew Daddo, Jane Godwin, Anna Walker, Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner, Tohby Riddle and Aaron Blabey. She has nurtured successful new talent such as Lucy Estela, author of the CBCA shortlisted picture book, Suri’s Wall, and Kylie Fornasier, author of the YA novel, The Things I Didn’t Say.
Michelle Madden Commissioning Editor, Penguin Young Readers Michelle Madden is a Commissioning Editor for Penguin Young Readers. She works across all genres on books for early childhood through to novels for young adults. As an editor she has worked with some of Australia’s finest authors and illustrators, including Felice Arena, Graeme Base, Nick Earls, Mem Fox, Jane Tanner and Alison Lester, as well as on collaborations between book creators and sporting and media stars. She is very proud of her work with up-and-coming authors and illustrators, working on picture books that speak directly to children, illustrated books for young readers that create excitement about stories, as well as entertaining left-of-centre YA and middle fiction.
Amy Thomas Commissioning Editor, Penguin Young Readers Amy Thomas commissions and edits books for Penguin Young Readers. She has worked with some of the company’s best-selling authors, including Melina Marchetta, Alison Lester, Isobelle Carmody and many more. Her particular interest is young adult fiction – from fantasy through to contemporary – but she is always looking for beautiful writing that has the ability to move the reader: picture books that perfectly explore a child’s point of view and their sense of wonder at the world; middle fiction that creates a world and characters so convincing that the reader feels like they are transported to another place with people they know; and powerful YA novels with real emotional impact and writing that soars.
41 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 RIGHTS CATALOGUE Zoe Walton Publisher – Random House Young Readers Zoe Walton is a Publisher for Random House Young Readers. She is the publisher and editor of John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series, which has now sold eight million copies worldwide and has been on the New York Times bestseller charts for more than 60 weeks. She is proud to publish plenty of Australia’s best authors for children and teens, including Deborah Abela, Tristan Bancks, Emily Gale, Nikki Gemmell, John Larkin, Belinda Murrell, Colin Thompson and Dianne Wolfer. Zoe also likes to work with debut authors and has recently launched award-winning authors Nicole Hayes and Fleur Ferris. Zoe can’t decide what she loves more – speculative fiction or contemporary stories – so she’s keen to publish the best of both genres!
Holly Toohey Publisher: Brands and Partnerships – Penguin Random House Young Readers Holly Toohey is a Children’s Publisher at Penguin Random House Australia. She creates and acquires new series, both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular focus on brand partnerships and licensed product. She has the pleasure of working with wonderfully talented authors such as Jacqueline Harvey, R.A. Spratt and George Ivanoff, and is proud to have published two Australian books in James Patterson’s international bestselling Middle School series. Despite not being overly sporty, Holly has also found a bit of a niche in publishing sport-related books for children.
Kimberley Bennett Commissioning Editor – Random House Young Readers Kimberley Bennett commissions and edits illustrated books and non-fiction for Random House Young Readers. Her titles range from picture books, illustrated chapter books and colour gift books through to illustrated information books and biographies for children and young adults. Her list includes the Meet . . . series of history picture books, Wendy Harmer’s perpetually gorgeous Pearlie series, and picture books by authors such as Renée Treml, Kate Ritchie and Ronojoy Ghosh.
Debra Millar Publishing Director – Penguin Random House New Zealand Debra Millar is the Publishing Director of Penguin Random House New Zealand and oversees a broad range of children’s titles, ranging from award-winning picture books to junior fiction and young adult novels. Penguin Random House New Zealand also publishes a growing list of non-fiction titles for young readers. Debra is proud to publish some of New Zealand’s most celebrated children’s writers and illustrators, including Lynley Dodd, Maurice Gee, David Hill and Gavin Bishop, who have all been extensively published internationally.
Harriet Allen Fiction Publisher – Penguin Random House New Zealand Harriet Allan has been working for Penguin Random House and its earlier incarnations for nearly thirty years. She publishes many of New Zealand’s pre-eminent writers of adult and young-adult fiction, including Witi Ihimaera, Maurice Gee and David Hill, among numerous others who regularly feature on the New Zealand bestseller list. She lost count, after reaching fifteen, of the number of award-winning books she has published, but over the years her authors have won the New Zealand Book Awards, the Montana Book Awards, the New Zealand Post Awards, the Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers Prize and several have been shortlisted for the prestigious Frank O’Connor Award.
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