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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers Feiwel & Friends First Second Henry Holt Books for Young Readers Roaring Brook Press and also including St. Martin’s Press and Tor/Starscape Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Foreign Subsidiary Rights Contacts
For Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, First Second, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, and Roaring Brook Press:
Holly Hunnicutt Deputy Director, Subsidiary Rights 646-307-5297 [email protected]
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For Feiwel & Friends, St. Martin’s Press & Tor/Starscape:
Kerry Nordling Director, Subsidiary Rights 646-307-5718 [email protected]
Marta Ficke Subsidiary Rights Manager 646-307-5715 [email protected]
Witt Phillips Foreign Rights Assistant 646-307-5016 [email protected] Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Jonathan Yaged, President and Publisher Editors:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers Joy Peskin, Editorial Director Margaret Ferguson, Publisher, Margaret Ferguson Books Frances Foster, Publisher, Frances Foster Books Wesley Adams, Executive Editor Janine O’Malley, Senior Editor
Feiwel & Friends Jean Feiwel, SVP, Publishing Director Liz Szabla, Editor-in-Chief
First Second Mark Siegel, Editorial Director Calista Brill, Senior Editor
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers Laura Godwin, VP, Publisher Christy Ottaviano, Editorial Director, Christy Ottaviano Books Sally Doherty, Executive Editor Kate Farrell, Senior Editor Noa Wheeler, Editor
Roaring Brook Press Simon Boughton, SVP, Publishing Director Neal Porter, Editorial Director, Neal Porter Books Nancy Mercado, Executive Editor Deirdre Langeland, Senior Editor Katherine Jacobs, Editor macmillan children’s publishing group chapter books
Not quite ready for Goosebumps? Try Scary Tales!
Home Sweet Horror by James Preller, illustrated by Iacopo Bruno
Feiwel & Friends Hardcover: July 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 96 pp.; Ages 7-10; Editor: Jean Feiwel Paperback: July 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 96 pp.
Moving into a new home is always tough, but when the house is alive...that’s when the real horror starts. Appliances that turn on by themselves. Liquid warnings. Strange sounds. Messages in the static. And not one, but two dueling spirits - one benign and motherly, the other malevolent and evil. I Scream, You Scream
Feiwel & Friends Hardcover: July 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 96 pp.; Ages 7-10; Editor: Jean Feiwel Paperback: July 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 96 pp.
The second book in James Preller’s new horror series for the chapter book set - Scary Tales.
James Preller, author of Six Innings and Bystander, is bringing the thrills and chills of horror to the chapter book crowd in Home Sweet Horror - the first book in his new horror series, Scary Tales.
Book 3: Zombie School Daze coming Fall 2013
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OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD!
New York Times bestselling series!
Bad Kitty School Daze by Nick Bruel
Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press January 2013; 5 ½ x 8; 160 pp.; Ages 7-10; Editor: Neal Porter
Kitty and Puppy are out of control! They’re screaming, fighting, hissing and drooling all over the house, and all of the commotion is upsetting Baby. Time for school - obedience school, that is. Can Kitty learn to follow the rules and make friends with the other students, or will she bring chaos to the classroom? Find out in Bad Kitty’s hilarious, new (mis)adventure!
With Nick Bruel’s trademark humor and Kitty’s trademark misbehavior, this is sure to become a favorite in the Bad Kitty collection.
Visit www.badkittybooks.com for extras and games!
September 2009 May 2010 May 2011 June 2011 December 2012
Rights sales: • Chinese Simplified/Macmillan Century - Chapter Books 1 - 4 • French (Europe only)/Bayard Jeunesse - Chapter Books 1 - 2 • French (North America only)/Scholastic Canada - Chapter Books 1 - 2 • German/Baumhaus - Chapter Books 1 - 2 • Hebrew/Iguana Publishers - Chapter Books 1 - 2 • Italian/De Agostini - Chapter Books 1 - 3 • Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora DCL - Chapter Books 1 - 4 • Spanish/RBA Libros - Chapter Books 1 - 4 • Turkish/Epsilon Yayinlari - Chapter Books 1 - 5 • UK/Puffin - Chapter Books 1 - 4
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The Adventures of Arnie the Doughnut: Bowling Alley Bandit by Laurie Keller
Christy Ottaviano Books/Holt Books for Young Readers June 2013; 5 ½ x 8; 112 pp.; Ages 7 - 10; B&W Illustrations; Editor: Christy Ottaviano
Arnie the Doughnut is back with new adventures - for chapter book readers!
As Mr. Bing’s new pet “doughnut dog,” Arnie couldn’t be happier. When Mr. Bing joins a bowling league, Arnie gets to go along to practices and competitions. But then Mr. Bing loses his glasses and starts rolling gutter balls. Someone or something is behind the madness. Arnie must solve the mystery and save the day. COVER NOT FINAL Full of the same winning charm and silly humor that Laurie Keller is known for, this chapter book - the first in the series - is sure to please her fans.
Laurie Keller is the acclaimed author-illustrator of Do Unto Otters, Arnie the Doughnut, and The Scrambled States of America.
Rights sales for Arnie the Doughnut: Chinese Complex/Art and Collection Co. • Korean/Connaissances Co.
Knuckle and Potty Destroy Happy World by James Proimos
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers May 2012; 5 ½ x 7; 80 pp.; Ages 7 - 10; Editor: Christy Ottaviano
This is a chapter book in the spirit of Captain Underpants about a couple of popular children’s book characters who hate being drawn as cute and loveable bears by the artist who created them. Together with their goofball friends Winkie the Pug and the Chicken in the Beret, they set out to destroy the happy world that is created for them.
Simple: they’ll just erase Happy World with their de-zonker contraptions. Little do Knuckle and Potty know that Happy World isn’t as happy (or as nice!) as they think.
James Proimos is the author and illustrator of the Johnny Mutton series as well as When Guinea Pigs Fly. He has also created shows for Cartoon Network and the WB.
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My Life as a Book Series My Life as a Cartoonist by Janet Tashjian, pictures by Jake Tashjian
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers May 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 224 pp.; Ages 9- 12; Editor: Christy Ottaviano Books
Series praise:
“Give this to kids who think they don’t like reading. It might change their minds.” - Booklist, starred review
“A kinder, gentler Wimpy Kid with all the fun and more plot.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
There’s a new kid in Derek Fallon’s class. His name is Umberto and he uses a wheelchair. COVER NOT FINAL Derek’s family is still fostering Frank the monkey, and Derek thinks it would be great to train Frank to assist Umberto. So Derek starts drawing a cartoon strip about “Super Frank” and sharing it at school. But Derek soon realizes that Umberto, a class clown himself, is definitely not looking for any help, and Derek becomes the butt of Umberto’s jokes. How will Derek get himself out of this misunderstood mess before he is the laughingstock of the school?
Janet Tashjian is the author of many popular novels including the My Life as a Book series and The Gospel According to Larry. Jake Tashjian has been drawing pictures of his vocabulary words on index cards since he was a kid. He now has a stack of index cards taller than a house.
October 2011 July 2010 Rights sales: • Catalan/Macmillan Infantil y Juvenil - Books 1 - 2 • Chinese Complex/Yuan Liou - Books 1 - 2 • Chinese Simplified/Macmillan Century - Books 1 - 3 • Czech/Albatros Media - Books 1 - 2 • German/Boje Verlag - Books 1 - 2 • Hebrew/Dani Books - Books 1 - 2 • Italian/la Nuova Frontiera - Book 1 • Korean/Bear Books - Book 1 • Portuguese/Pandorga Editore - Books 1 - 3 • Slovak/Albatros Media - Books 1 - 2 • Spanish/Macmillan Infantil y Juvenil - Books 1 - 2 • Turkish/Yakamoz Yayinlari - Books 1 - 3
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The Charlie Joe Jackson Series Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Summer Vacation by Tommy Greenwald
Roaring Brook Press May 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 224 pp.; Ages 9 - 12; Editor: Nancy Mercado
“Hilarious...This debut is filled with passages that beg to be shared...With its subversive humor and contemporary details drawn straight from kids’ worlds, this clever title should attract a wide following.” - Booklist, starred review
“Charlie Joe’s insider knowledge of the inner machinations of middle-school cliques will make younger readers smile in anticipation, and his direct address to readers makes make him feel like an older buddy showing the way…Slackers everywhere have a new, likable hero in Charlie Joe Jackson.” - Kirkus Reviews
Charlie Joe Jackson spends the summer at an academic summer camp called Camp Rituhbukee and desperately tries to convert all the other kids to non-academics.
Tommy Greenwald has enjoyed reading all his life, which is why he’s appalled that his kids Charlie, Joe and Jack, would prefer getting a dental check-up to checking out a book. After years of pleading, threatening, and bribing, Tommy finally decided the only way to get his kids to read was to write a book about how to get out of reading. This is the result. And they read it! (So they say.)
July 2011 April 2012
Book 4, Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Making Money to come May 2014 Book 5, Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Growing Up to come May 2015
Rights sales: • Catalan/Grup Editorial 62 - Books 1 - 2 • French/Milan Editions - Books 1 - 2 • German/Baumhaus - Books 1 - 3 • Greek/Psichogios Publications - Book 1 • Hebrew/Armchair Publishing House - Books 1 - 2 • Korean/Bear Books - Books 1- 3 • Portuguese (Brazil)/Novo Seculo Editora • Spanish/Ediciones B - Books 1 - 2 • Turkish/Epsilon Yayinlari - Books 1 - 3 8 middle grade macmillan children’s publishing group
Jack Strong Takes a Stand by Tommy Greenwald
Roaring Brook Press September 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 224 pp.; Ages 8 - 12; Editor: Nancy Mercado
Jack Strong just wants to be a regular kid. But his parents have overscheduled his week with every extracurricular activity under the sky: tennis, baseball, cello, karate, youth orchestra, tutoring, and Chinese language lessons - all on top of regular homework. His parents want him to be “well-rounded.” Jack’s just about had enough.
And so he stages a sit-in on his couch and refuses to get up until his parents let him quit some of the extracurriculars. As Jack’s protest gains momentum, he attracts a local televi- sion host who is interested in doing a segment on Jack. Tensions rise as counter-protesters in favor of hardworking kids camp across the street from Jack and his couch. Jack’s enjoying this newfound attention, but he’s worried that this sit-in may have gone too far.
Tommy Greenwald went on strike once in his life, when the local Baskin-Robbins decided to discontinue his favorite flavor, German Chocolate Cake. The strike lasted until he realized they still sold Rocky Road. Tommy swears he wasn’t anything like the over-involved dad portrayed in this book. Ask his kids! No wait, don’t. Tommy lives in Connecticut with his wife, Cathy; his non-reading sons, Charlie, Joe and Jack; and his dogs, Moose and Coco.
The Barftastic Life of Louie Burger by Jenny Meyerhoff
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers June 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 176 pp.; Ages 8 - 12; B&W art throughout; Editor: Janine O’Malley
Fifth-grader Louie Burger figures that with a goofy name like his, he must be destined to be a king of comedy like his idol Lou Lafferman. But he’s only ever performed his standup act in his closet, where he and his dad created the most exclusive comedy club ever – if by “exclusive” you mean that no one’s ever allowed inside. With the school Talent Bonanza coming up, Louie’s wondering if now is his moment to kill (that’s comedian talk for “make actual people laugh”). And maybe, if he brings down the house, he’ll win back his former best friend Nick – who seems to be turning into one of those annoying snotbrain sporty types – and fend off his dad’s home improvement obsession, which threatens to turn Louie’s comedy closet into a private bedroom for his older sister. Barftrocious!
Jenny Meyerhoff is the author of a novel for teens, Queen of Secrets, and a chapter book, Third Grade Baby.
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The Boy Who Knew Everything by Victoria Forester
Feiwel & Friends September 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 336 pp.; Ages 9 - 12; Editor: Jean Feiwel
In this long-awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Could Fly, super genius Conrad Harrington III takes center stage, training Piper and the other exceptional kids to work as a team, and confronting the father who sent him away.
Praise for Victoria Forester and The Girl Who Could Fly: “It’s the oddest/sweetest mix of Little House on the Prairie and X-Men. I was smiling the whole time (except for the part where I cried).” - Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga
Victoria Forester is a screenwriter and author who lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and ridiculously orange cat, Rufus.
Rights sales for The Girl Who Could Fly: Bulgarian/Soft Press • Chinese Simplified/Macmillan Century • Hungarian/Konyvmolykepzo Publishing • Indonesian/PT Serambi Ilmu Semesta • Italian/Edizioni Il Castoro • Korean/Sallim Publishing • Portuguese/Editora Autores Associados • Spanish/Montena • Thai/Amarin • Turkish/Pegasus Publishing House • UK/Pan Macmillan
Pickle* *The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School by Kim Baker, illustrated by Tim Probert
Roaring Brook Press September 2012; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 240 pp.; Ages 8 - 12; Editor: Deirdre Langeland
This is the story of THE LEAGUE OF PICKLEMAKERS.
Ben: who began it all by sneaking in one night and filling homeroom with ball-pit balls. Frank: who figured out that an official club, say a pickle-making club, could receive funding from the PTA. Oliver: Who once convinced half of the class that his real parents had found him and he was going to live in a submarine. Bean: Who wasn’t exactly invited, but her parents own a costume shop, which comes in handy if you want to dress up like a giant squirrel and try to scare people at the zoo.
TOGETHER, they are an unstoppable prank-pulling force, and Fountain Point Middle School will never be the same.
Kim Baker is a first-time author. An enthusiastic promoter and talented writer, she has an excellent feel for the fascinations and realities that dominate kids’ lives.
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Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers August 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 80 pp.; Ages 8 - 12; B&W illustrations throughout; Editor: Laura Godwin
When Tony’s mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting move - Tony’s new world bears no semblance to his previous one. But slowly, against a remote and remarkable backdrop, the scars from Tony’s troubled past begin to heal.
With his Tio and a search and rescue dog named Gabe by his side, he learns how to track wild animals, is welcomed to the Cowboy Church, and makes new friends at the Mountain School. Most importantly though, it is through Gabe that Tony discovers unconditional love for the first time.
Margarita Engle is a poet and novelist whose work has been published in many countries. Her books include The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor book and winner of the Pura Belpre Award, The Poet Slave of Cuba, winner of the Pura Belpre Award, and Hurricane Dancers, winner of the Pura Belpre Award.
The Treasure of Way Down Deep by Ruth White
Margaret Ferguson Books/FSG Books for Young Readers August 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 208 pp.; Ages 10 - 14; Editor: Margaret Ferguson
In this long-awaited sequel to Way Down Deep, it’s Ruby’s birthday and little Rita gives her a funny-looking button. Ruby thanks her and then forgets all about it because her beloved pet goat Jethro dies. A few nights later, she sees Jethro’s shadow dancing on his grave, and that’s the first hint that something strange is going on in Way Down Deep. Then on Halloween night, Miss Arbutus senses an evil wind blowing into town and bad things start to happen. The coal mine shuts down, one hundred men lose their jobs, and all of Way Down feels the pinch. Ruby thinks the answer to their problems is the treasure that Archibald Ward, the town’s founder, supposedly buried hundreds of years ago. Most people say the treasure is just a myth, but Ruby figures out that her funny-looking button is actually a coin, and with a little bit of luck and after a lot of searching, she digs up an old chest full of gold. The town’s problems seem to be over - but when they can’t agree on how to spend the money, Ruby wonders if the evil wind brought the treasure, too.
Ruth White has written many middle grade and young adult books. She received the Newbery Honor Award for Belle Prater’s Boy.
Series rights sales: German/Freies Geistesleben • Korean/Bomnamu Publishers
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The Magician’s Apprentice by Kate Banks, illustrated by Peter Sís
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers August 2012; 5 1/8 x 7 ¼; 192 pp.; Ages 10 - 14; B&W art throughout; Editor: Frances Foster
Baz has always dreamed about leaving his dusty little town, so when a stranger comes to his family’s home and asks him to be a weaver’s apprentice, Baz is eager to start his journey. He and the stranger travel for several sunrises and sunsets until they reach the land of Kallah, where Baz starts his apprenticeship - and soon learns that his master is very cruel. Baz is disheartened, and when the master trades Baz for a sword to a magician, Baz expects no better from his new owner. But as Baz travels further into the depths of the desert with this kind-hearted and wise magician, he learns to re-examine his beliefs about people, the world, and himself, discovering that everything is connected in a continuous journey toward destiny and that no person or thing can ever really be owned.
Kate Banks is the award-winning author of Close Your Eyes, Fox, and The Bear in the Book. She lives in the south of France. Peter Sís is a three-time Caldecott-Honor winner for Starry Messenger, Galileo Galilei, and Tibet Through the Red Box.
Rights sales: Korean/E*Public Korea Co.
Zero Tolerance by Claudia Mills
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers June 2013; 5 1/8 x 7 ¼; 192 pp.; Ages 10 - 14; Editor: Margaret Ferguson
Seventh-grader Sierra Shepard has always been the perfect student, so when she sees that she accidentally brought her mother’s lunch bag to school, including a paring knife, she immediately turns in the knife at the school office. Much to her surprise, her beloved principal places her in in-school suspension and sets a hearing for her expulsion, citing the school’s ironclad “No Weapons” policy. While there, Sierra spends time with Luke, a boy who’s known as a troublemaker, and discovers that he’s not the person she assumed he would be - and that the lines between good and bad aren’t as clear as she once thought. COVER NOT FINAL
Claudia Mills is the author of many chapter and middle grade books, including 7 x 9 = Trouble and How Oliver Olson Changed the World.
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From Norvelt to Nowhere by Jack Gantos
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers September 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 352 pp.; Ages 10 - 14; Editor: Wes Adams
Just after the close of Dead End, with the Cuban Missile Crisis having fizzled out, young Jack Gantos is relieved of his bomb-shelter-digging chore and accompanies his obituary-writing old friend Miss Volker on a train visit to the grave of Mrs. Roosevelt, the patron saint of Norvelt, who has just died. As more than one snoopy stranger is riding the rails with them, their field trip east is as fraught as it is fun, even before news arrives of Miss Volker’s twin sister’s unexpected death in Florida. The snoops are private investigators, hired by the Norvelt Life Insurance Company to investigate. After Miss Volker privately claims to be the true criminal - making Jack an accomplice of sorts - their trip becomes a flight from justice, taking them all the way to the Eden-like atmosphere of the Deep South. When they hit the road, young Jack will be at the wheel of course, not knowing who’s guilty of what, including himself, and Miss Volker will be behaving as both outlaw and tour guide, on a journey to what may turn out to be paradise for an old woman who decides to cast aside her allegiance to her dying hometown for a last chance at love - even with the law closing in.
Jack Gantos, winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for Dead End in Norvelt, is the New York Times bestselling author of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book, and Hole In My Life, a Printz Honor book. If you haven’t yet heard his amazing appearance on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” this spring, check it out at the NPR website.
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers September 2011; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 352 pp.; Ages 10 - 14; Editor: Wes Adams
• Newbery Medal Winner • New York Times Bestseller “Nobody can tell a story like Jack Gantos can. And this is a story like no other. It’s funny. It’s thoughtful. It’s history. It’s weird. But you don’t need me to attempt to describe it. Get in there and start reading Gantos.” - Jon Scieszka
“A bit of autobiography works its way into all of Gantos’s work, but he one-ups himself in this wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction by naming the main character...Jackie Gantos. Memorable in every way.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Gantos has a refreshingly wicked and sharp wit, he’s honest as hell, he’s fearless, and he knows how to tell a good story…delivered with his signature quick-witted insight on adolescence.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“This is a richly layered semi-autobiographical tale, an ode to a time and place, to history and the power of reading.” - The Horn Book, starred review
Rights sales: Chinese Simplified/New Buds Publishing • French/Editons les Grandes Personnes • Hebrew/ Hakibbutz Hameuchad • Korean/Charlie Books • UK/Random House UK 13 macmillan children’s publishing group young adult FIRST SECOND Backlist
A Midsummer Night’s Scream by R.L. Stine
Feiwel & Friends July 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 224 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Jean Feiwel
We know “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as a classic Shakespeare comedy filled with fairies, spells, love potions, and romantic antics. In R.L. Stine’s reimagining of the tale, however, star-crossed lovers become murderous, and beloved fantastical creatures, like Puck, become … not so loveable. Get ready for laughter to turn into screams as the master of horror mashes up with the master of theater.
R.L. Stine is the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. His standalone middle-grade novel It’s the First Day of School...Forever!, has been optioned for film. COVER NOT FINAL
Rights sales for It’s the First Day of School...Forever!: Chinese Complex/Omnibook Press Co. • Chinese Simplified/Jieli Publishing House • French/Editions Michel Lafon • Greek/Psichogios • Italian/Mondadori • Korean/Booksmania • Polish/Belona Publishing House • Portuguese (Brazil)/Companhia das Letras • Russian/AST • Spanish (World)/RBA Libros
The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers August 2013; 5 ½ x 8; 224 pp.; Ages 14 & Up; Editor: Christy Ottaviano
When Cady wakes up, she has no memory of who she is. All she knows is that there is a pillowcase over her head and a person in the room has instructed another to “take her out back and finish her off.” Cady must find a way to save herself. But how can she do this when she doesn’t even know her name?
April Henry has written another nail-biting suspense thriller that explores such themes as murder, memory loss, identity theft, and biological warfare. As with her other novels, her strong female protagonist joins forces with a teen guy and together they race against the clock to stay alive COVER NOT FINAL and save Cady’s missing family.
Rights sales for Girl, Stolen: British Commonwealth/Walker Books Limited • German/Thienemann Verlag • German (paperback)/Carlsen • Turkish/Yakamoz Yayinlari
Rights sales forThe Night She Disappeared: British Commonwealth/Walker Books Limited • German/Thienemann Verlag • Turkish/Yakamoz Yayinlari
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Eve and Adam by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant
Feiwel & Friends October 2012; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 320 pp.; Ages 13 & Up; Editor: Jean Feiwel
In the beginning, there was an apple—
And then there was a car crash, a horrible injury, and a hospital. But before Evening Spiker’s head clears a strange boy named Solo is rushing her to her mother’s research facility. There, under the best care available, Eve is left alone to heal. Just when Eve thinks she will die - not from her injuries, but from boredom - her mother gives her a special project: Create the perfect boy.
Using an amazingly detailed simulation, Eve starts building a boy from the ground up. Eve is creating Adam. And he will be just perfect...won’t he?
Katherine Applegate is the author of several middle grade and young adult novels including Home of the Brave and the Animorphs series. Michael Grant is the author of the bestselling Gone series.
Rights sales: British Commonwealth/Egmont UK • Dutch/Unieboek • French/La Martinière • German/ Ravensburger • Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Novo Conceito
Book 2, Adam and Eve, coming Fall 2014!
Furious by Jill Wolfson
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers April 2013; 5 x 8 ¼; 336 pp.; Ages 14 & Up; Editor: Kate Farrell
We were only three angry girls, to begin with. Alix, the hot-tempered surfer chick; Stephanie, the tree-hugging activist; and me, Meg, the quiet foster kid, the one who never quite fit in. We hardly knew each other, but each of us nurtured a burning anger: at the jerks in our class, at our disappointing parents, at the whole flawed, unjust world.
We were only three angry girls, simmering uselessly in our ocean-side California town, until one day a mysterious, beautiful classmate named Ambrosia taught us what else we could be: Powerful. Deadly. Furious.
Jill Wolfson has worked as a journalist for newspapers and magazines around the country. Her award-winning novels for young people include What I Call Life; Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies; and Cold Hands, Warm Heart.
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0f Triton by Anna Banks
Feiwel & Friends May 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 352 pp.; Ages 13 & Up; Editor: Jean Feiwel
Still reeling from the revelation at the end of Of Poseidon that her mother is the long-lost Poseidon princess, Emma struggles with an identity crisis - and it’s not just in her head. As a Half Breed, she’s a freak in the human world and an abomination in the Syrena realm - Syrena law even states that all Half Breeds should be put to death.
As if that’s not bad enough, her mother’s reappearance into the Syrena world turns the two kingdoms against each other, the law, and the Royals. Which leaves Emma with a decision to make: should she comply with Galen’s request to keep herself safe and just hope for the best? COVER NOT FINAL Or should she risk it all and reveal herself - and her Gift - to save a people she’s never known?
No matter what, Galen is determined to keep Emma out of harm’s way. Too bad it’s this kind of protective instinct that triggers the Gifts of Triton. And too bad those Gifts are split between a certain set of Royal twins - twins who are tired of being told what to think. Told again from both Emma and Galen’s points of view, here is a fish-out-of-water story that sparkles with adventure, humor, and waves of romance.
Anna Banks is the author of Of Poseidon.
Series rights sales: German/C. Bertelsmann Jugendbuch Verlag • Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Novo Conceito
Safekeeping by Karen Hesse
Feiwel & Friends September 2012; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 304 pp.; Ages 14 & Up; B&W photos throughout; Editor: Jean Feiwel
“A masterfully written powerhouse of a book.” - School Library Journal, starred review
Radley had been volunteering in Haiti, and is just trying to get home. But the America she left is not the same as the one she’s coming back to. The President has been assassinated, the government is cracking down, the banks are closed, and people are panicking. Worst of all, her parents are not waiting at the airport and they aren’t answering the phone. Out of money and options, Radley starts walking. It takes days of slogging through rain, foraging from dumpsters, and dodging over-interested people, but she finally makes it home to be faced with an empty house. Where are her parents? Why aren’t they here? And what should she do now?
Like a dystopic novel, but better - the horror here doesn’t come from zombies, aliens, or disease, instead it’s the logical progression of a frighteningly realistic scenario - this is a vision of the future that only Karen Hesse could write: real, gripping, and deeply personal.
Karen Hesse is the winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Award and the author of Brooklyn Bridge and Out of the Dust, a Newbery Medal Winner.
Rights sales for Brooklyn Bridge: Chinese Complex/New Sprouts • Chinese Simplified/Macmillan Century • Korean/Tornado Media Group 16 young adult macmillan children’s publishing group FIRST SECOND Backlist
Engines of the Broken World by Jason Vanhee
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers November 2013; 5 x 7 ½; 208 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Noa Wheeler
Merciful Truth and her brother, Gospel, have just pulled their dead mother into the kitchen and stowed her under the table. It was a long illness, and they wanted to bury her, they did - but it’s far too cold outside, and they know they won’t be able to dig into the frozen ground. The Minister who lives with them, who preaches through his animal form, doesn’t make them feel any better about what they’ve done. Merciful calms her guilty feelings, but it only lasts until, from the other room, she hears a voice she thought she’d never hear again. It’s her mother’s voice, and it’s singing a lullaby...
Jason Vanhee lives in Seattle, Washington. This is his first novel.
Dead Lines by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers November 2013; 5 ½ x 8; 288 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Christy Ottaviano
Sixteen-year-old Samantha D’Angelo has death on the brain. It’s not that she’s morbid (okay, maybe a little), but her summer internship at her local newspaper has her writing obituaries instead of soaking up the sun at the Jersey Shore. Between Shelby, Sam’s boy-obsessed best friend; her boss Harry, a true-blue newspaper man; and AJ, her fellow “intern scum” (A.K.A the drummer for Love Gas), Sam has her hands full. When she starts investigating a potentially corrupt mayor, her summer gets busier. The best part of her internship is very clearly AJ - but will she screw things up by letting him know?
As Sam learns her way around both the news room and the real world, she starts to make some momentous realizations about politics, ethics, her family, and most importantly - herself.
Jennifer Doktorski is a freelance non-fiction writer. She has published articles and essays in national magazines, such as Cosmopolitan, and is the author of How My Summer Went Up in Flames, forthcoming May 2013.
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Second Impact by David and Dr. Perri Klass
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers August 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 336 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Frances Foster
When you walk into Kendall High School, the first thing you see is a big glass case filled with football trophies dating back one hundred years. It’s football town, and Jerry Downing is the star quarterback working to redeem himself after he nearly killed a girl in a drunk driving accident last year. Carla Jenson is the lead reporter for the high school newspaper’s sports section, and she’s recruited Jerry to co-author a blog chronicling the season from each of their perspectives. When Jerry’s best friend on the team takes a hit too hard and gets hurt, Carla wonders publicly if injury in the game comes at too high a cost in a player’s life - but not everyone in Kendall wants to hear it...
David Klass is the author of many young adult novels, including most recently Stuck on Earth, which Publishers Weekly called “a thoughtful, often wrenching book [that] offers plenty to think about.” Dr. Perri Klass is a contributor to the New York Times as well as an author of several books for adults. Second Impact is her first book for teens.
When We Wuz Famous by Greg Takoudes
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers March 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 304 pp.; Ages 14 & Up; Editor: Christy Ottaviano
Francisco, a straight-laced, straight-A student from Spanish Harlem, wins a full scholarship to an elite boarding school. He has never broken a single rule in his life, but when he moves into the dorm, his new classmates assume the worst, they pepper him with questions about drugs, gangs, rap and the barrio. In an environment of privilege and possibility, Cisco becomes everything he’d fought so hard to avoid. But he finds out that back home in Spanish Harlem, he doesn’t fit in anymore either. His friend Brandon attempts to bring their friendship back to the dependence they’d once found safety in, but makes some terrible choices - one of which is fatal.
COVER NOT FINAL Greg Takoudes worked for Ron Howard and Brian Grazer as a member of the creative team at Imagine Entertainment in Los Angeles. When We Wuz Famous is his novel adaptation of his first feature film, Up with Me, which garnered several film awards. Greg recently completed his second feature, The Jonestown Defense. He also cowrote House of Satisfaction, directed by Jesse Hartman, which made its European debut at the Reykjavik International Film Festival.
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Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal
Feiwel & Friends February 2012; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 320 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Jean Feiwel
“This is a smart book about a smart subject by a smart writer.” - Booklist, starred review
“Your time is limited...have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” - Steve Jobs
From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents’ garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. Then came the core and hallmark of his genius - his exacting moderation for perfection, his counterculture life approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed all boundaries. A devoted husband, father, and Buddhist, he battled cancer for over a decade, became the ultimate CEO, and made the world want every product he touched.
Critically acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal takes us to the core of this complicated and legendary man while simultaneously exploring the evolution of computers. Framed by Jobs’ inspirational Stanford commencement speech and illustrated throughout with black and white photos, this is the story of the man who changed our world.
Karen Blumenthal is the critically acclaimed author of children’s non-fiction and has won the Sibert Honor and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards.
Rights sales: Arabic/Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation • British Commonwealth/Bloomsbury • Chinese Simplified/21st Century Publishing House • German/Bloomsbury Verlag • Japanese/Asunaro • Korean/ Seoul Cultural Publishers • Polish/Wydawnictwo Amber • Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Novo Seculo • Russian/Astrel • Spanish (World)/Alfaguara • Thai/Pranbooks • Ukranian/Bohdan Publishing
Handbook for Hot Witches by Dame Darcy
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers August 2012; 6 1/8 x 9 ¼; 208 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Kate Farrell
Combine a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells - voila! - the perfect sleepover book. Ever wondered what your dreams mean? You can look them up here. Want to learn to knit? This book can get you started. With sections on doll making, friendship, crystal ball gazing, meditating, and much more, this is the fully illustrated guide that will send girls on their way to independence, creativity, and magic.
Dame Darcy is known worldwide as an illustrator, writer, fine artist, musician, filmmaker, animator, environmentalist, and Cabaret Mermaid. Her titles include The Illustrated Jane Eyre, and her comic book series, Meat Cake, which she has been publishing for twenty years.
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Hyde and Shriek: A Monsterrific Tale by David Lubar
Tor/Starscape January 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 320 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Susan Chang
There’s something strange going on at Washington Irving Elementary School. People are turning into monsters - literally!
Ms. Clevis is one of the most popular teachers at Washington Irving. Until the morning she accidentally puts some of the wrong ingredients into her breakfast smoothie. Suddenly she finds herself switching back and forth between mean substitute teacher Ms. Hyde and a sweet sixth grade girl named Jackie. Will Jackie figure out the cure before she changes into the horrible Ms. Hyde forever?
David Lubar created a sensation with his debut novel, Hidden Talents, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. He is also the author of the Nathan Abercrombie series, True Talents, Flip, and six Weenies short story collections.
Author rights sales: Chinese Complex/Fei Bao International Culture Co. • Chinese Simplified/Macmillan Cenutury •German/Baumhaus Verlag GMBH • Italian/Saraiva
Antigoddess by Kendare Blake
Tor Teen August 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 320 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Melissa Frain
“At once as eerie and terrible as it is sad and romantic, Anna Dressed in Blood is not your normal ghost story. […] This captivating story pulls no punches, making for a breathless read that lingers in the imagination long after the last page is turned.” - NPR
Old Gods never die...Or so Athena thought. They were supposed to live a quiet eternity as teenagers in perpetual health; but when Athena and Hermes find themselves affected by strange illnesses, they start on a journey across the country to seek the cause of their ill- nesses and to gather their allies in reincarnated form. Meanwhile, Hera, the queen of the gods, has aligned herself with other of the ancient Olympians who are killing off rivals in an attempt to prolong their own lives. Thus, The Goddess War begins in the start of this new series by the acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood.
Kendare Blake holds an MA in Creative Writing from Middlesex University in northern London. She lives and writes in Lynnwood, Washington. Visit her online at www.kendareblake.com.
Rights sales for Anna Dressed in Blood: Chinese Complex/Faces Publications • German/Heyne • Hungarian/ Geopen (Two-book deal) • Italian/Newton Compton • Polish/Proszynski i S-ka. • Spanish (World)/Alfaguara (Two-book deal) • Swedish/Fenix • Thai/Amarin • UK/Orchard Books 20 FIRSTyoung SECOND adult Backlist st. martin’s press
Hidden by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
St. Martin’s Press October 2012; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 320 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Jennifer Weis
In the must-read tenth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling vampyre series, Darkness won’t stay hidden for long...
“Move over Stephenie Meyer.”—People
Nearly 12 million copies of the series sold to date in the U.S. alone!
On the New York Times bestseller list for over 100 weeks and counting!
Rights sales: Bulgarian/Soft Press • Chinese Complex/Locus • Chinese Simplified/Jieli • Croatian/ Algoritam, • Czech/Euromedia Group • Danish/Tellerup • Dutch/MYNX • Estonian/Pegasus • Finnish/ Otava • French/Pocket • German/Fischer/Luebbe • Greek/Metaixmio • Hebrew/Kinneret • Hungarian/ Kelly • Icelandic/Tindur • Indonesian/PT Elex Media • Italian/Nord • Japanese/Kadokawa • Korean/Seoul Education Co. • Latvian/Zvaigzne ABC • Lithuanian/Alma Littera • Norwegian/Cappelen Damm • Polish/ Ksiaznica • Portuguese (Brazil)/Novo Seculo • Portuguese (Portugal)/Saida de Emergencia • Romanian/ Litera International • Russian/Olma Media • Serbian/Algoritam • Slovak/Ikar • Slovenian/Ucila • Spanish/ La Factoria de Ideas • Swedish/Bonnier • Thai/Amarin • Turkish/Pegasus • UK/Little Brown • Vietnamese/ Tre
Neferet’s Curse: A House of Night Novella by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
St. Martin’s Press February 2013; 5 x 7 1/8; 160 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Jennifer Weis
Third in the thrilling new mini-series of novellas from the #1 bestselling authors of the House of Night, Neferet’s Curse tells the secret story behind Zoey’s most powerful enemy.
P.C. Cast is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author whose novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, as well as the PRISM, Booksellers Best, Holt Medallion, and more. She lives in Oklahoma with lots of dogs, cats, horses, and a burro. Kristin Cast is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who teams with her mother to write the House of Night YA series. She has stand alone stories in several anthologies, as well as editorial credits and is currently working on her first stand-alone novel, a dark, mysterious fairy tale.
Rights sales for Dragon’s Oath: Czech/Euromedia Group • French/Pocket • German/Fischer • Norwegian/ Cappelen Damm • Polish/Ksiaznica • Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Novo Seculo • Turkish/Pegasus • UK/ Little Brown
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Chosen at Nightfall by C.C. Hunter
St. Martin’s Press/Griffin May 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; pp. 400; Editor: Rose Hilliard
“Jam-packed with action and romance…Hunter’s lifelike characters and paranormal creatures populate a plot that will keep you guessing till the very end. A perfect mesh of mystery, thriller, and romance. Vampires, weres and fae, oh my!” – Romantic Times
When Kylie Galen left Shadow Falls, she thought it was the hardest decision of her life. Heartbroken and separated from everyone she loves, she finally comes to terms with her abilities and what it means to be a chameleon. But as Kylie’s journey comes to a close, she must return to the camp that started it all...and she must finally chose between the two boys who love her. The werewolf who broke her heart when he chose his pack over her, and the half-fae who ran from their intense attraction before they ever really had a chance. For Kylie, everything will finally be revealed and nothing will ever be the same.
C.C. Hunter is a pseudonym for award-winning romance author Christie Craig. She lives in Spring, Texas.
Rights sales for previous titles: Czech/Baronet • Danish/Tellerup • French/Michel Lafon (three-book deal) • German/Fischer (three-book deal) • Hebrew/Agam Books • Portuguese (Brazil)/Pensamento • Romanian/Corint • Russian/Eksmo • Thai/Amarin
Prep School Confidential by Kara Taylor St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books August 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 304 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Brendan Deneen and Anne Bensson
The story of a sixteen-year old Queen Bee who is kicked out of her posh Manhattan prep school and sent to a blue-blooded school outside Boston, only to find herself embroiled in a murder mystery that will eventually reveal the storied school’s disturbing secret history.
Kara Taylor recently graduated from Stony Brook Universtity on Long Island. She has a degree in English and certification to teach middle school and high schoolers. She currently works as a writing tutor and a nanny to feed herself and buy books.
Midnight City: Book One of the Conquered Earth Trilogy by J. Barton Mitchell
St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books November 2012; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 320 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Brendan Deneen
Set eight years after an alien invasion, on an earth where all human adults have been abducted, two teens - a bounty hunter and a treasure seeker - stumble upon a girl with amazing powers who may just be the key to stopping the aliens’ mysterious agenda.
J. Barton Mitchell is a screenwriter and comic book writer who studied creative writing at the University of Houston before going on to receive a B.S. in Film Studies from the University of Texas in 1998. After selling screenplays to Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox, he created and wrote the comic book series Poe, published by Boom! Studios in 2009.
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Vortex by Julie Cross
St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books January 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 352 pp.; Editor: Brendan Deneen
“This fast-paced spy thriller/romance packs a surprising emotional punch that leaves you wanting to leap into the future to devour the upcoming sequel.” - Entertainment Weekly
Following the events of Tempest, Jackson Meyer has thrown himself into his role as an agent for Tempest, the shadowy division of the CIA that handles all time-travel-related threats. Despite his heartbreak at changing history and losing the love of his life, Jackson has nevertheless proven himself to be an excellent agent, without the need to use his own powers to jump through time. However, all of that changes when Holly re-enters his life. And when Eyewall, an opposing division of the CIA, emerges, Jackson and his fellow agents find themselves attacked and on the run, and Jackson must once again decide between saving the love of his life, who no longer even remembers him, and the entire world.
Julie Cross lives in central Illinois with her husband and three children where she works as a YMCA Gymnastics Program Director. She never considered writing professionally until May of 2009. Since then, she hasn’t gone a day without writing. Tempest was her first novel.
Rights sales: Chinese Complex/Sharp Point • Croatian/Ljevak • Czech/Fragment • Danish/Tellerup • French/Seuil • German/Fischer • Hungarian/ Konyvmolykepzo • Indonesian/Mizan • Italian/Fanucci • Korean/Hyundaemunhak • Polish/Bukowy Las • Portuguese (Brazil)/Pensamento • Portuguese (Portugal)/ Dom Quixote • Russian/AST • Slovak/Fragment • Spanish/Maeva • Thai/Amarin • Turkish/Pegasus • UK/ Macmillan
Film rights optioned by Summit Entertainment (now merged with Lionsgate) makers of the “Twilight” movies and “The Hunger Games.”
Foretold: A Demon Trappers Novel by Jana Oliver
St. Martin’s Press/Griffin December 2012; 5 ½ x 7 1/8; 352 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Jennifer Weis
“Oliver’s series start will suck you in from the first page, keeping you awake at night wondering what will happen next. The novel is thrilling, filled with action and a side of romance.” - Romantic Times (4 stars)
In the fourth Demon Trappers novel, Riley faces the final battle for humanity and Beck’s heart - and Hell is the least of her problems.
Jana Oliver is also the award-winning author of the Time Rovers series. She lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and is happiest when she’s researching outlandish urban legends, wandering around old cemeteries and dreaming up new stories.
Rights sales for previous titles: Chinese Complex/Spring International • French/Bragelonne (Three-book deal) • German/Fischer (Three-book deal) • Polish/Replika • Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora DCL • Russian/ Astrel (Three-book deal) • Turkish/Pegasus (Three-book deal) 23 st. martin’s press young adult FIRST SECOND Backlist
Dreamwalker by Kit Alloway
St. Martin’s Press/Griffin Fall 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Terra Layton
Joshlyn Weaver and her family are members of a secret society of Dream Walkers, risking their lives every day to end nightmares and maintain the fragile balance between the world’s three realms: dream, reality, and death. When an outsider with promising talents enters their midst, Josh must teach him the Dream Walker ways and protect him from harm, a challenge that has proved too difficult for her in the past. While training together, the pair discovers monsters called ‘the trenchcoat men,’ who have developed the unusual ability to alter dreams and kill dreamers. As danger threatens the very balance of the realms, they begin to unravel the mystery of the trenchcoat men, the deaths of Josh’s boyfriend and mother, and the secrets of the Dream Walker world itself.
Kit Alloway writes primarily for young adults. In addition to writing, she plays various musical instruments, decorates cakes, mixes essential oils, and studies East European languages. She lives in Louisville, KY with her family and four very tiny dogs.
Shadows of Glass by Kassy Tayler
St. Martin’s Press/Griffin July 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 320 pp.; Editor: Holly Blanck
“Riveting dystopian steampunk! Kassy Tayler writes with haunting precision, and you’ll fall in love with Wren and Pace as she brings their world to gritty, lyrical life.” - Ann Aguirre, national bestselling author of Enclave on Ashes of Twilight
In this follow up to Ashes of Twilight comes a whirlwind of adventure, romance, conspiracy and the struggle to stay alive in a dystopian world where nothing is as it seems.
Kassy Tayler has always been a writer. Since the beginning of her memories, her biggest desire has been to put words to paper. Now she is living her dream and has several published novels COVER NOT FINAL to her credit in multiple genres. She’s been married for several years to the man of her dreams. They’ve raised two exceptional sons. Tayler lives within the shadow of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina with her husband, her doxie, Cody, and two cats who continually make life interesting.
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The Weather Witch by Shannon Delaney
St. Martin’s Press/Griffin June 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 320 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Michael Homler
“Definitely a smash hit and the must read book of this summer 2010!... If you read only one book this summer than let it be 13 to Life by Shannon Delany. You will not be disappointed.” - Teen Channel Reviews on 13 to Life
From the author of the 13 to Life series, comes the first book in a new series about a young woman who is accused of being a weather witch - one who can control the weather.
Since she was a child Shannon Delany has written stories, beginning writing in earnest when her grandmother fell unexpectedly ill. Previously a teacher and now a farmer raising heritage livestock, Shannon lives and writes in Upstate New York and enjoys traveling to talk to people about most anything.
Rights sales for 13 to Life series: French/ADA Editions (4-book deal) • German/C. Bertelsmann Jugendbuch Verlag (2-book deal) • Hungarian/Kelly Kiado • Portuguese (Brazil)/Universo Dos Livros (2-book deal) • Turkish/Marti Publishing (3-book deal)
Where Beauty Lies by Elle and Blair Fowler
St. Martin’s Press/Griffin July 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 288 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Rose Hilliard
The London sisters return in this spectacular new novel about love, friendship, and the perils of fame. Despite their very public arrest, Ava and Sophia London are about to discover that in L.A. there’s no such thing as bad press. Suddenly, they are the hottest “It” girls in town and are one step closer to making their brand, London Calling, a household name. Their newfound celebrity status takes them jet setting to New York City to expand their brand into fashion and homegoods. Their first stop is fashion week, where they’re about to put on their inaugural fashion show...but not if their rivals have anything to say about it. The same unseen enemies responsible for framing them in L.A. are back - and determined to ruin the sisters for good this time. Can Ava and Sophia find out who’s trying to destroy them before it’s too late? COVER NOT FINAL Elle and Blair Fowler began filming makeup and fashion tutorials for YouTube in the summer of 2008. Their videos quickly garnered millions of views and national media attention. They live in Los Angeles and are working on a makeup line scheduled to release in Fall 2012.
The In-Between by Barbara Stewart
St. Martin’s Press/Griffin Fall 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 288 pp.; Editor: Vicki Lame
A psychological thriller in which 14-year-old Elanor’s near-death experience opens a door to a world inhabited by bold, beautiful Madeline - a girl who is everything she isn’t - and finds her life quickly spiraling out of control.
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Odd Duck by Cecil Castelluci, illustrated by Sara Varon
First Second May 2013; 7 x 9; 96 pp.; Ages 8-12; Editor: Mark Siegel
Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head, and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there’s nothing so odd about that. At least, that’s what Theodora would say if you asked her. Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. Theodora quite likes him, but she can’t overlook his odd habits. He looks at the stars at night. He swims in crazy circles instead of straight lines. His house is a mess. It’s a good thing Chad has a conventional friend like Theodora to set a good example for him. But who exactly is the odd duck here? Theodora may not like the answer.
Cecil Castelluci is the award-winning author of The Year of the Beasts. Originally from the Chicago area, Sara Varon now resides in Brooklyn, New York. Like Theodora, she might be considered an odd duck. Her books include Robot Dreams and Bake Sale.
Rights sales for Robot Dreams: French/Editions Dargaud • German/Ravensburger Buchverlag • Korean/ Science Books Co. • Spanish/Ediciones Jaguar/Ediciones Kraken
Giants Beware! The Chronicles of Claudette by Jorge Aguirre, illustrated by Rafael Rosado
First Second April 2012; 7 ½ x 10; 208 pp.; Ages 7-10; Editor: Calista Brill
“A fine balance...strong and lively.” - School Library Journal, starred review
“The rich world and engaging characters are a surefire hit – and the glorious full-color illustrations, which pack a novel’s worth of expression onto cartoon faces, should bring readers back for multiple reads of this many-layered story.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
Claudette is a sweet but loud-mouthed red-headed tomboy with ambitions to slay giants. With her best friend Marie (an aspiring princess), and her brother Gaston (a pastry-chef- to-be), Claudette embarks on a super-secret quest to find a giant - without parental permission. Can they find and defeat the giant before their parents find them and drag them back home?
Jorge Aguirre has written for everything from the most popular children’s shows on television to documentaries about Romanian exorcisms. Rafael Rosado works as a storyboard artist for Warner Brothers, Disney, Cartoon Network, and several other studios.
Rights sales: Portuguese (Brazil)/Vergara & Riba • French/pending
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Legends of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
First Second September 2012; 6 x 8 1/2; 224 pp.; Ages 8 - 12; Editor: Calista Brill
“How do you follow up saving an entire planet from destruction by asteroid? For Zita, you go on a cosmic victory tour, somewhat reluctantly, to meet your adoring throngs of new fans. For Hatke, you whip up a story that digs into the high price of fame without sacrificing a drop of the fun, funny, and far-out charm that made his first graphic novel such a smash...Top-flight space capering brimming with heart and heroism.” - Booklist, starred review
“Hatke’s arrestingly vibrant art commands instant adoration of its reader. Zita’s moxie is positively contagious, and her adventures are un-put-downable.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Hatke has again conjured up a rich and satisfying story with enchanting characters and delightful humor.” - School Library Journal, starred review
In a follow-up to the successful and critically acclaimed Zita the Spacegirl, Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another rollicking fantasy adventure. Zita is determined to find her way home, after the events of the first book. But things are never simple, and certainly never easy, in space.
Ben Hatke has published comics stories in the Flight series as well as Flight Explorer.
Book 3 is scheduled for May 2014
Curses! Foiled Again by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mike Cavallaro
First Second January 2013; 6 x 8 ½; 176 pp.; Ages 11 & Up; Editor: Mark Siegel
In this delightful sequel to 2010’s Foiled, Aliera Carstairs is back. This time she’s got her cousin - and best friend - Caroline in tow, and the stakes are higher than ever. The realm of Seelie, the fairy kingdom of which Aliera is the hereditary defender, is under attack, and only Aliera and Caroline can set things right. Caroline, fragile and wheelchair-bound, may seem like more of a liability than an asset, but Aliera knows there’s more to her quiet cousin than meets the eye. Curses! Foiled Again is Jane Yolen at her best, reunited with her partner in crime, the fabulously talented illustrator Mike Cavallaro.
Jane Yolen is the author of over 300 books and has won an assortment of awards, including a Caldecott Honor, two Nebulas, a World Fantasy Award, the Golden Kite Award, two Christopher Medals, and a nomination for the National Book Award. Mike Cavallaro is a member of the web-comics collective, ACT-I-VATE, where he contributes weekly web comics, including the true-life historic memoir, Parade (With Fireworks), a 2008 Eisner Award nominee.
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Tune: Vanishing Point by Derek Kirk Kim
First Second November 2012; 6 x 8 ½; 176 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; Editor: Mark Siegel; B&W illustrations
Andy’s life is going nowhere, fast. He left art school with his career all worked out ahead of time, but...it didn’t work out. Unemployed and living with his overbearing parents, Andy struggles to keep sight of the lofty goals that once drove him. But it’s hard, even when he reconnects with his old art school crush, Yumi.
Things look better, briefly, with Yumi back in the picture and an actual job offer on the table. But then Andy takes the job offer - to work at a zoo - and finds himself in outer space. The zoo? Is run by aliens. The exhibit? Is him.
Derek Kirk Kim is back with an offbeat, poignant new project. The first of two volumes, Tune, is a science-fiction comedy, but it’s also a smart and affectionate examination of human nature.
Derek Kirk Kim is the award-winning author of Same Difference, The Eternal Smile written by Gene Luen Yand, and Good as Lily by Jesse Hamm. His web-TV series, “Mythomania,” loosely based on Tune, is currently in its first season.
Volume 2, Tune: Still Life is scheduled for November 2013
Broxo by Zach Giallongo
First Second October 2012; 6 x 8 1/2; 240 pp.; Ages 10 - 14; Editor: Calista Brill
In this wildly entertaining YA fantasy debut, we meet Broxo, the only surviving member of a tribe of barbarians who once occupied a now-barren mountain. Alone, Broxo spends his time on the mountain hunting and avoiding the voracious animated corpses that periodically drag themselves out of a fetid lake. It’s not much of a life, but at least it’s consistent.
Everything changes when Zora, a beautiful warrior princess, arrives on the mountain seeking Broxo’s lost tribe. The two teens meet, try to kill each other, and then save each other from zombies. You know, the usual love story.
With accessible and beautiful art, killer fight scenes, and a story that mixes humor, angst, romance, and classic high fantasy, Broxo is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.
Zach Giallongo was born and raised in Massachusetts, although one half of his family lives in Indiana. Between New England and the Midwest, he’s a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. Broxo is his first graphic novel. 28 graphic novels first second FIRST SECOND Backlist
Olympians by George O’Connor
New York Times Bestseller!
Poseidon: The Earth Shaker
First Second March 2013; 7 1/2 x 10; 80 pp.; All Ages
In volume 5 of Olympians, author/artist George O’Connor turns the spotlight on that most mysterious and misunderstood of the Greek Gods, Poseidon: Earth Shaker. Thrill to such famous stories as Theseus and the Minotaur, Odysseus and Polyphemos, and learn how the tempestuous Poseidon became the King of the Seas.
Aphrodite is scheduled for release in January 2014.
George O’Connor is a Greek mythology buff and a classic superhero comics fan, and he’s out to remind us how much our pantheon of superheroes owes to mankind’s original superheroes: the Greek pantheon.
Visit the Olympians online at www.olympiansrule.com
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Rights sales for Volume 1 - 2: Hebrew/Hakkibutz Hame’uchad • Indonesian/PT Gramedia Pustaka
Rights sales for Volume 1 - 4: Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Paz E Terra • Turkish/Arkadas Yayinevi
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Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen, illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
First Second May 2013; 6 x 8 1/2; 228 pp.; Ages 12 & Up; B&W illustrations; Editor: Calista Brill
Nate and Charlie are unlikely best friends. Charlie’s the cool-as-a-cucumber captain of the basketball team, and Nate is the neurotic, scheming king of the nerds (president of the robotics club, to be exact). Somehow their different social standing at school hasn’t managed to do away with their unusual friendship. Things get strained, though, when Nate declares war on the cheerleaders, and the cheerleaders retaliate with Charlie as their figurehead in the ugliest school election campaign this South Carolina school has ever seen.
And it’s only going to get worse: after both parties are stripped of their funding on grounds of abominable misbehavior, the robotics club joins up with the cheerleaders in an alliance from hell, and retrofits their beloved robot to fight in a gladiatorial battle-bot competition in a desperate bid for prize money. And poor Charlie is swept along on this madcap scheme. Bad sportsmanship? Sure. Chainsaws? Why not. Running away form home on Thanksgiving to illicitly enter a televised robot death-match? Nothing can possibly go wrong.
Prudence Shen is a writer and caffeine-addict who pays rent in London even though she mostly lives in airports. Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong is her first book. She loves robots. Not like that. Faith Erin Hicks is the creator of Brain Camp and Friends with Boys.
Sumo by Thien Pham
First Second December 2012; 6 x 8 1/2; 112 pp.; Ages 14 & Up; Editor: Calista Brill
Scott is a washed-up football player who never made it, and whose high-school girlfriend abandoned him along with his dreams of playing pro football. But things have a way of working out, in this sweet, poetic tale, and a new chapter in Scott’s life begins as the old one ends. Offered a position in a Japanese sumo training “stable,” Scott abandons his old life, his old name, and even his old hair color, and becomes an aspiring sumo wrestler. And in so doing, he begins to find some kind of center in himself...a center that seemed lost for good.
Highly poetic and structured to echo the timing of a sumo match, Pham’s Sumo is an unusual and beautiful book. It’s nearly a contradiction in terms: a delicate, deft, tender tale about...sumo wrestling.
Thien Pham is a comic book and visual artist, based in the Bay Area. He is also a high school teacher. Pham illustrated Gene Luen Yang’s Level Up. Sumo is his first solo work.
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Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Maris Wicks
First Second June 2013; 6 x 8 1/2; 144 pp.; Ages 10 & Up; Editor: Mark Siegel
Following 2011’s critically-acclaimed, bestselling science biography Feynman, Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed biography of the three great woman primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology - and to our own understanding of ourselves.
Tackling Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas in turn, and covering the highlights of their respective careers, Primates is an accessible, entertaining and informative look at the field of primatology and at the lives of three of the most remarkable women scientists of the last century. With charming and inviting illustrations by Maris Wicks, this is a nonfiction graphic novel that will appeal to a very wide variety of readers.
Jim Ottaviani is known for his non-fiction, science-oriented comics, notably the number one New York Times bestseller, Feynman. Maris Wicks has used her opposable thumbs to draw comics for Adhouse Books, Tugboat Press, and “Spongebob Comics,” and written stories for Image and DC Comics. She is an avid tool user and is particularly fond of bananas.
Sailor Twain by Mark Siegel
First Second October 2012; 6 x 8 ½; 400 pp.; Ages 14 & Up; B&W illustrations; Editor: Simon Boughton
“This is a gripping novel with compelling characters, enhanced by haunting, erotically charged drawings.” - John Irving
“A romance in the truest sense of the word, Sailor Twain is a marvel of graphical beauty and complex, intelligent storytelling.” - Lev Grossman
“Siegel’s strength as a storyteller is knowing precisely how to balance the verbal and the visual...the manner in which he presents both the real and the fantastic shows his profound understanding of both worlds.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
One hundred years ago, on the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular - and notoriously reclusive - author makes a public debut. A French nobleman seeks a remedy for a curse. As three lives twine together in an unexpected collision, the mystery of the Mermaid of the Hudson deepens...
Mark Siegel was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but grew up in France. He is the Editorial Director of First Second, and an accomplished writer and illustrator. He is the illustrator of To Dance: Ballerina’s Graphic Novel, written by his wife, Siena Cherson Siegel, a Robert F. Sibert Award Honor Book and Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta, written by Lisa Wheeler.
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If You Want to See a Whale by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Erin E. Stead
Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press May 2013; 7 x 9; 32 pp.; Ages 2-6; Editor: Neal Porter
If you want to see a whale, you will need to know what not to look at. Pink roses, pelicans, possible pirates...If you want to see a whale, you have to keep your eyes on the sea, and wait... and wait. . .and wait . . .
In this beautiful picture book by the winning team of Julie Fogliano and Erin E. Stead, a boy learns exactly what it takes to catch a glimpse of an elusive whale. Bear Has a Story to Tell by Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead
Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press September 2012; 9 ¼ x 8 ½; 32 pp.; Ages 2 - 6; Editor: Neal Porter
New York Times Bestseller
“Big, furry bears abound in children’s books, but Erin Stead’s is especially soulful.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Exquisite...The rhythms of nature and of storytelling are in fine form here.” - School Library Journal, starred review
Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead are author and illustrator of A Sick Day for Amos McGee, winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book.
Rights sales: Australia & NZ/Allen & Unwin • Chinese Complex/ pending • Chinese Simplified/Macmillan Century • French/ Kaleidoscope • Hebrew/Kinneret • Italian/ pending • Japanese/Mitsumura Educational • Korean/Open Books • UK only/ Andersen Press And Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Erin Stead
Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press February 2012; 5 ½ x 10 ½; 32 pp.; Ages 4-7; Editor: Neal Porter
New York Times Bestseller
“Many treasures lie buried within this endearing story, in which humor and anxious anticipation sprout alongside one another.” - Kirkus, starred review
“This seemingly real-time experience of getting to green is a droll, wistful ode to the stamina behind wanting, will, and perseverance.” - School Library Journal, starred review
“...an understated and intimate partnership.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
“...no sophomore slump for Stead: her second book is even better than her 2011 Caldecott winner.” - Horn Book, starred review
“A...beautiful ode to a patient gardener.” - starred review, Booklist
Rights sales: Chinese Complex/Taosheng • Chinese Simplified/21st Century Publishing • French/Kaleidoscope • Hebrew/ Kinneret • Italian/Babalibri • Korean/Open Books • Spanish/Oceano Mexico 32 picture books macmillan children’s publishing FIRST SECOND Backlist
Bully by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press August 2013; 10 x 8; 40 pp.; Ages 3-7; Editor: Neal Porter
Bully doesn’t have a kind word for any of his friends. When the other animals ask him to play, he responds in the way he’s been taught: Chicken! Slow poke! You stink!
Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s bold, graphic artwork, along with her spare but powerful words, make for a tender, hilarious, and thoughtful tale.
Among Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s many distinctive books for children are First the Egg, a Caldecott Honor Book; Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories; and Green.
Abe Lincoln’s Dream by Lane Smith
Roaring Brook Press October 2012; 8 ½ x 10 ½; 32 pp.; Ages 5-9; Editor: Simon Boughton When a schoolgirl gets separated from her tour of the White House and finds herself in the Lincoln bedroom, she also discovers the ghost of the great man himself. Together they embark on a journey across the country to answer Lincoln’s questions and quiet his concerns about the nation for which he gave his life. This wholly original tale is signature Lane Smith: funny, touching, and surprising in a way only possible from this master picture book creator.
Lane Smith is author and illustrator of the national bestseller It’s a Book.
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Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
Roaring Brook Press August 2011; 11 x 8 ½; 32 pp.; Ages 5 - 9; Editor: Simon Boughton
Caldecott Honor Winner New York Times Bestseller
“Visually intriguing and emotionally resonant, this is a book to pore over and talk about. With each subsequent reading, it offers new layers of meaning and visual connections.” - School Library Journal, starred review
“It’s a rare glimpse into Smith’s softer side-as skillful as his more sly offerings, but crafted with honesty and heart.” - starred review, Publishers Weekly
Rights sales: British Commonwealth/Macmillan UK • Chinese Complex/Grimm Press • Chinese Simplified/ Macmillan Century • French/Editions Gallimard • Italian/RCS Libri SpA Rizzoli • Japanese/BL Shuppan • Korean/Munhakdongne • Portuguese (Brazil)/Cia Das Letras • Spanish/Oceano Mexico 33 firstmacmillan second children’s graphic publishing novels group picture books
I See Kitty by Yasmine Surovec
Roaring Brook Press September 2013; 10 x 8; 40 pp.; Ages 3 - 6; Editor: Katherine Jacobs
Chloe loves kitties. She wants a cat so much that she sees Kitty everywhere she goes: at the bus stop, in her backyard, in the starry night sky, even in her dreams. From debut children’s book illustrator Yasmine Surovec comes a story so adorable that if you don’t already love cats you will by the time you’re done reading it. In the tradition of iconic preschool books like Where’s Spot?, I See Kitty uses bright, bold artwork to appeal to very young readers and charm them for generations to come.
Yasmine Surovec loves kitties. She is the artist behind the popular comic blog and book Cat vs. Human.
Oh So Tiny Bunny by David Kirk
Feiwel & Friends February 2013; 10 ½ x 8; 32 pp.; Ages 3 - 6; Editor: Jean Feiwel
With the beloved Miss Spider series, David Kirk proved himself a master of bold, distinctive, almost-three dimensional paintings. Now, this talented author and artist is ready to make another generation of fans fall in love with a new character - Oh So Tiny Bunny.
During the day, Oh So Tiny Bunny is very, very small. But at night, he dreams of being big - as big as a dragon, or even a mountain! At first, that’s fine, but then he feels lonely. There’s no one to share it with. Are there no other bunnies so big as him?
Every small child dreams of the day they will grow up to be big, but in this book, the first in a series, David Kirk reminds us that sometimes it’s not so bad being small.
David Kirk is the creator of Miss Spider, who appears in many well-loved children’s books, in her own television series, and in a number of popular apps.
Vacation for Pooch by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers February 2013; 8 x 6; 32 pp.; Ages 4 - 7; Editor: Christy Ottaviano
Violet is going on a winter vacation to sunny Florida while Pooch stays behind at Grandpa’s farm. Violet packs a suitcase for herself, and one for Pooch filled with all of his favorite things. After they both leave, disaster strikes! Their bags get mixed up, and Violet worries Pooch’s vacation will be miserable. A phone call from Grandpa reassures Violet that Pooch is just fine. This is a comforting story for children who love their pets and are worried about them when they are separated.
Maryann Cocca-Leffler has created over fifty books for children, including Jack’s Talent. 34 picture books macmillan children’s publishing FIRST SECOND Backlist
Some Monsters are Different by David Milgrim
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers July 2013; 9 x 9; 40 pp.; Ages 3 - 5; Editor: Laura Godwin
This laugh-out-loud story describes the differences between a cast of terrific monsters. Some monsters will eat anything, some are picky; some monsters talk and talk and talk, some are quiet. But ultimately, as this hilarious book makes clear, all monsters are absolutely, positively, completely perfectly wonderful . . . Just the way they are!
David Milgrim is the author and illustrator of Goodnight iPad.
Monstergarten by Daniel J. Mahoney, illustrated by Jef Kaminsky
Feiwel & Friends July 2013; 10 x 9; 40 pp.; Ages 4 - 5; Editor: Liz Szabla
Patrick is worried about his first day of monstergarten. Everyone knows you have to be scary in monstergarten. Patrick’s friend, Kevin, offers to show Patrick how to be scary – they roar, they sneak up on people, they show their teeth. But Patrick still doesn’t quite feel it. His parents tell him to just be himself. But what if he’s not scary ENOUGH?
Author Daniel J. Mahoney and artist Jef Kaminsky delight readers with a warm and funny depiction of the first day of kindergarten, and a surprise at the end. Here is a story about taking a BIG step into a “scary” experience that kids and their parents will relate to!
Welcome to Robot Town by Ryan Heshka
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers August 2013; 8 x 11; 32 pp.; Ages 4 - 7; Editor: Christy Ottaviano
It’s another busy day for robots - make sure you’re not late for Robot School! On the way, say ‘hello’ to TrafficBot, who helps robots cross busy streets, and Professor Nutzundbolts, the principal. Check out Director Steelburg filming a new movie on Aluminum Avenue. After a day of steely adventures, it’s time for a quick oil bath before recharging overnight for another chrome-filled day in Robot Town.
Ryan Heshka is the author and illustrator of Welcome to Monster Town, which has been optioned for film by Dreamworks.
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Katie and the Puppy Next Door by John Himmelman
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers March 2013; 8 x 9; 32 pp.; Ages 3 - 6; Editor: Kate Farrell
Katie is taken by surprise when Ruby, the new puppy next door, comes for a visit. Ruby runs right into Katie’s house and starts playing - with Katie’s favorite things! She even eats Katie’s food! Katie thinks this is terrible, and she chases Ruby away. But Sara Ann is disappointed. She wants Katie to share. She even says it will be fun. But Katie has her doubts about that!
John Himmelman is the author and illustrator of Katie Loves the Kittens.
Patch by David Slonim
Roaring Brook Press July 2013; 8 x 10; 32 pp.; Ages 5 - 8; Editor: Deirdre Langeland
Patch is a good dog. At least he tries to be - but sometimes he finds it hard to remember commands or resist chasing rabbits. But no matter what he does, he is always lovable. Three very short stories of a boy and his dog are combined into one adorably illustrated picturebook that honors the special bond between dogs and their people, and between friends of all species.
David Slonim’s sweet and mildly mischievous dog, Maggie, is the inspiration for this book. He has also illustrated It’s A Dog’s Life by Susan E. Goodman, which features pooches of all sizes and shapes.
Boom! Boom! Boom! by Jamie A. Swenson, illustrated by David Walker
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers May 2013; 10 x 10; 32 pp.; Ages 2 - 6; Editor: Janine O’Malley
FLASH! CRASH! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! One rainy night, in the midst of a storm, a brave little boy is cozy and warm. He’s all snuggled up, safe in his room - when ARROOO howls dog, “Is there room?” Of course there’s room - and all is well - until...FLASH! CRASH! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
What happens when too many friends start to squish in? That’s when the fun is sure to begin!
Jamie A. Swenson received an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. She works as an associate librarian and early literacy storyteller. 36 picture books macmillan children’s publishing group FIRST SECOND Backlist
A Pirate’s Guide to Recess by James Preller, illustrated by Greg Ruth
Feiwel & Friends June 2013; 10 x 10; 40 pp.; Ages 3 - 6; Editor: Liz Szabla
Praise for A Pirate’s Guide to First Grade: “...an exuberant tribute to imagination and a spirit of adventure.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
“...a tremendous read-aloud.” - School Library Jounral, starred review
It’s girls against boys in this winning sequel! As they did in A Pirate’s Guide to First Grade, James Preller and Greg Ruth deliver another story full of adventure, danger, and yo-ho-ho!
The Very Inappropriate Word by Jim Tobin, illustrated by Dave Coverly
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers August 2013; 8 ½ x 11 ¼; 40 pp.; Ages 5 - 9; Editor: Christy Ottaviano
Michael loves interesting words (hard words like ELASTIC, little words like VAST, and big words like SMITHEREENS) and is always on the lookout for words to collect. Then one day, he picks up a new word. A bad word. An inappropriate word. At least, that’s what his friend says. But Michael kind of likes the word. He thinks he might try it out.
At school. Bad idea.
Jim Tobin and Dave Coverly previously collaborated on Sue MacDonald Had a Book.
Another Night at the Museum by Milan Trenc
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers March 2013; 8 ¼ x 11; 32 pp.; Ages 5 - 9 Editor: Christy Ottaviano
Larry is a night guard at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He is also late for work. In his hurry to get out of the bathtub and to his job, he forgets things. Things like shutting off the faucet...
What would happen if Larry’s bathtub caused the city to flood? What would become of the museum? The fabulous creatures in the Ocean Room like the blue octopus and giant whale?
Join Milan Trenc, the creator of The Night at the Museum, for more adventures inside a world that few ever get to experience - the mysterious world of a museum after the lights go out. 37 macmillanFIRST children’s SECOND publishing 2011 group david macaulay
Introducing the David Macaulay Studio
Jet Plane: How It Works by David Macaulay, illustrated by Sheila Keenan
Roaring Brook Press September 2012; 6 x 9; 32 pp.; Ages 7 - 8; Editor: Simon Boughton
It weighs as much as 100 elephants, but it can fly for hours. How does a jet do that? With his unique blend of informative text and illustration, master explainer David Macaulay takes readers on an airplane ride. From the engines that provide the power and the wings that lift the plane off the ground to the cockpit controls and passenger cabin, he shows how these modern marvels work.
Castle: How It Works Roaring Brook Press September 2012; 6 x 9; 32 pp.; Ages 7 - 8; Editor: Simon Boughton
“...compact, clear and engagingly illustrated...great fuel for the imagination.” - Kirkus, starred review
“Engrossing nonfiction chapter books are not always easy to come by, so scoop this one up.” - BCCB, starred review
See how a castle woks as an enemy army tries to storm the walls. Toilet: How It Works Roaring Brook Press September 2013; 6 x 9; 32 pp.; Ages 7 - 8; Editor: Simon Boughton
Everyone knows what a toilet is for, right? But what exactly happens after you flush? Where does our waste go, and how is it made safe? David Macaulay takes readers on a tour of the bathroom and the sewer system, from the familiar family toilet to the mysterious municipal water treatment plant.
Eye: How It Works Roaring Brook Press COVER NOT FINAL September 2013; 6 x 9; 32 pp.; Ages 7 - 8; Editor: Simon Boughton
How can you see that your shirt is on inside out? How do you see the soccer ball coming right at you? How do you know which players are on your team? It all starts with light - and with the amazing human eye. David Macaulay shows how this extraordinary organ works to capture light and send signals to our brains.
David Macaulay is the author and illustrator of more than twenty-five books including Cathedral, Pyramid, and Castle. His ground-breaking The Way Things Work has become a modern classic. He won the Caldecott Medal for Black and White.
Picture Book: That Changes Everything Coming Fall 2014! COVER NOT FINAL 38 picture books macmillan children’s publishing group FIRST SECOND Backlist
That’s a Possibility by Bruce Goldstone
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers June 2013; 8 ½ x 11; 32 pp.; Ages 7 - 10; Editor: Sally Doherty
With colorful photographs and interactive examples, Bruce Goldstone introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to- understand, fun scenario such as dice rolling and bowling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations. In the vein of Great Estimations, this is a perfect book for getting across important math concepts in a fun way.
Bruce Goldstone is the author of Great Estimations and 100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Days.
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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdös by Deborah Heiligman, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Roaring Brook Press June 2013; 8 x 10; 48 pp.; Ages 3 - 8; Editor: Deirdre Langeland
Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And many do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. Instead, he traveled around the world, from one mathematician to the next, collaborating on an astonishing number of publications. With a simple, lyrical text and richly layered illustrations, this is a beautiful introduction to the world of math and a fascinating look at the unique character traits that made “Uncle Paul” a great man.
Deborah Heiligman is the author of Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith, a National Book Award finalist. LeUyen Pham has illustrated dozens of books for kids, including God’s Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Papa’s Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Boris Kulikov
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers June 2013; 10 x 10; 40 pp.; Ages 4 - 8; Editor: Margaret Ferguson
Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr! That’s the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly. But then he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, and his daughter Virena asks, “Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a fish?” - and Papa is off to his workshop. A few weeks later, he opens the door to reveal a small underwater vessel, with a tube sticking out the top so he can breathe and a pole sticking out the bottom so he can push along the lake floor. But it won’t work, so Papa returns to his workshop. With a lot of persistence, and a little bit of help, Papa (based on the real-life inventor Lodner Phillips) finally creates a submarine that can take his family for a trip to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Candace Fleming is the author of many picture and young adult books, including Boxes for Katje. Boris Kulikov is the critically acclaimed illustrator of Barnum’s Bones by Tracey Fern.
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Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers January 2013; 9 x 12; 48 pp.; Ages 3 - 6; Editor: Wes Adams
Join a girl and her family as they pack up their old house in town and set out to build a new one in the country. Mom and Dad are going to make the new house themselves, from the ground up. From empty lot to finished home, every stage of their year-and-a-half-long construction project is here. And at every step their lucky kids are watching and getting their hands dirty, in page after page brimming with machines, vehicles, and all kinds of house-making activities!
As he imagines it through the eyes of his older sister, this is Jonathan Bean’s retelling of his own family’s true experience, and includes an afterword with photographs from the author’s collection.
One Bright Ring by Gretchen Géser
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers May 2013; 10 x 8; 32 pp.; Ages 4 - 8; Editor: Noa Wheeler
A girl sees a man drop the ring he means to use to propose to his girlfriend. The little girl tries to give it back to him, but things keep getting in her way! Follow this brave girl and count the obstacles she overcomes in her adventure to return the ring to its owner. She catches up to him just as he realizes he doesn’t have the ring anymore…so she drops it in just the right place for him to find it.
Gretchen Geser has an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults.
When You Wander by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Mary Morgan
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers April 2013; 8 ½ x 11; 32 pp.; Ages 4 - 8; Editor: Noa Wheeler
This cozy story gently teaches children what to do if they lose their way, and reassures them that a search-and-rescue dog can find them wherever they are. And once a child is found, the dog will bring people to make sure that everyone gets home safe and sound.
Full of interesting facts about search-and-rescue dogs and tips for young children in case they get lost, When You Wander is a fascinating peek into the world of these amazing dogs and the children they save.
Margarita Engle’s picture book Summer Birds was a Kirkus Best Book for Children. Mary Morgan has is the illustrator of Dragon Pizzeria. 40 picture books macmillan children’s publishing group FIRST SECOND Backlist
Niño Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales
Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press June 2013; 9 x 9; 40 pp.; Ages 4 - 8; Editor: Neal Porter
Señoras y Señores, put your hands together for the fantastic, spectacular, one of a kind...Niño!
Fwap! Slish! Bloop! Krunch! He takes down his competition in a single move!
No opponent is a challenge for the cunning skills of Niño-popsicle eater, toy lover, somersault expert, and world champion lucha libre competitor!
Born and raised in Mexico, Yuyi Morales has been a radio producer and children’s book creator since coming to the United States. Her books include Little Night and its Spanish edition, Nochecita, a 2008 ALA Notable Children’s Book, and Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and the Spanish Alphabet Book.
Grandma and the Great Gourd by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, illustrated by Susy Pilgrim Waters
Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press March 2013; 9 x 9; 32 pp.; Ages 5 - 8; Editor: Neal Porter
Once upon a time, in a little village in India, there lived an old woman. Everyone in the village called her Grandma. One day, Grandma received a letter from her daughter, who lived on the other side of the jungle. “Please come and visit me,” said the letter. “I haven’t seen you in so long. I miss you.”
And so, Grandma begins a perilous journey to the far side of the jungle. Can she use her keen wit to escape the jungle animals and make it safely home?
Chitra Divakaruni’s sharp, rhythmic retelling of this Bengali folktale is complimented perfectly by Susy Pilgrim Waters’ brightly colored, captivating illustrations.
Ben Rides On by Matt Davies
Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press May 2013; 11 x 8 ½; 32 pp.; Ages 4 - 7; Editor: Neal Porter
Ben loves his new bike. In fact, he loves it so much he even likes riding to school (especially if he can take the long way around)! That is, until an encounter with the local bully, Adrian Underbite, leaves Ben bike-less. When Ben discovers where his bike actually is, the reader is in for a dramatic, and literal, cliffhanger.
Will Ben ever be able to get his bike back?
Find out in this hilarious and tender tale by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Davies. 41 macmillan children’s publishing group picture books
The Forgiveness Garden by Lauren Thompson, illustrated by Christy Hale
Feiwel & Friends October 2012; 8 ½ x 10; 32 pp.; Ages 3 - 6; Editor: Liz Szabla
Two villages. A hatred that has existed longer than anyone can remember. A boy and girl who find themselves at the center of conflict. With these elements, acclaimed author and artist, Lauren Thompson and Christy Hale, have created one of the most affecting books about war and forgiveness.
Lauren Thompson is the author of Ballerina Dreams. Christy Hale has illustrated many picture books, including the acclaimed Elizabeti’s Doll series.
Rights sales: Korean/Sigonsa Banks / Swiatkowska $16.99 $18.99 Can KATE BANKS is the author of many acclaimed books for children, including the Boston Thank You, Mama Globe–Horn Book Award winner And If the Moon Could Talk. She lives hen Alice gets a lesson in the South of France. WFrancesin manners and a parrot Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers for her birthday, she tries to GABI SWIATKOWSKA has teach the bird to say “Thank illustrated many notable books you,” too. But what will it take for children, including My Name YOU,THANK MAMA for thisApril parrot to understand 2013; 9 x 8; 32 pp.; Ages 4 - 8; Editor: Frances Foster Is Yoon, for which she received the what it means to be polite? Alice Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator soon finds out in this charming Award. She lives in France. story that teaches children the magic of manners . . . and of a Also available good-night kiss. It was Alice’s birthday, and Alice’s mama and papa took her to the zoo. They bought Alice a pet parrot, an ice cream, and a flower. Reinforced Binding Frances Foster Books “Thank you, Mama,” said Alice. FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX ISBN 978-0-374-37444-0 5 1 6 9 9 >
175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010 FSG mackids.com 9 7 8 0 3 7 4 3 7 4 4 4 0 “Thank you, Mama,” said the parrot. But when they returned home and Alice gave the parrot a cracker, the parrot only said, “Thank you, Mama.” Alice thinks she needs to teach the parrot manners - but could it be that the parrot is actually teaching her?
Please, Papa May 2013; 9 x 8; 32 pp.; Ages 4 - 8; Editor: Frances Foster
Alice was making a farm in the middle of her bedroom. She asked Mama for a pig and chickens for her farm, but when Mama didn’t have a horse, Alice turned to her papa. “Please, Papa,” said Alice. “Okay,” said Papa, who, since Alice asked so nicely, put her on his back and trotted around like a horse himself.
A playful story where, with the use of a single polite word, lines between the real and the imaginary become blurred as toy animals come to life.
Kate Banks is the author of The Magician’s Apprentice and The Night Worker, a Boston Globe Horn Book award winner. Gabi Swiatkowska is the illustrator of My Name is Yoon, an Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award winner. 42 picture books macmillan children’s publishing group
Les Petits Fairytales by Trixie Belle and Melissa Caruso-Scott, illustrated by Oliver Lake
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers October 2012; 6 x 6; 24 pp.; Ages 1 - 3; Editor: Laura Godwin
With a single word and an accompanying illustration on each spread, these classic fairytales can be enjoyed by the youngest readers.
Trixie Belle lives with her princely husband and their three little nymph children in an enchanted cottage in Western Massachusetts, where she spins her tales. Mellissa Caruso- Scott resides with her inventive husband and their two mini-maestros in Brooklyn, where she promotes kindie music through Super Sonic Kids. Oliver Lake is a professional children’s book illustrator who exhibits at art galleries and sells prints of his work online.
Coming May 2013: Beauty and the Beast • The Little Mermaid • Rapunzel • Sleeping Beauty
Busy Busy Little Chick by Janice N. Harrington, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers February 2013; 10 x 10; 32 pp.; Ages 3 - 6; Editor: Wes Adams
Little Chick’s mother is a hen who clucks a lot more than she acts. Mama Nsoso knows her old nest isn’t the cozy home she and her brood need. But whenever she tries to get busy building a new house, she’s too easily distracted by sweety-meaty worms, crunchy-munchy crickets, and picky-pecky corn. Luckily, Little Chick is an industrious sort. While the rest of his family are stuffing themselves silly, he’s quietly building them a new home, bit by bit, day by day.
Janice N. Harrington received the Ezra Jack Keat’s New Writer Award for Going North. Brian Pinkney’s many awards include two Caldecott Honors.
Rights sales: French/Editions du Genevrier
Sing! by Joe Raposo, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers May 2013; 8 x 10; 40 pp.; Ages 4 - 8; Editor: Christy Ottaviano
“Sing, Sing a Song” is by far the most popular and universal song created in connection with Sesame Street. In this thoughtful treatment, Joe Raposo’s lyrics are paired with Tom Lichtenheld’s art to tell a story of peace, self-expression, and the celebration of music.
Joe Raposo was a celebrated composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer, and lyricist best known for his work on Sesame Street. He served as musical director for Sesame Street from its inception through to the late 1970s. Tom Lichtenheld is the author of Cloudette.
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A Sick Day For Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press
Caldecott Medal Winner New York Times Bestseller 250,000 copies sold
Rights sales: Arabic/Bloomsbury Qatar • Australia & New Zealand/Allen & Unwin • Chinese Complex/Hsiao Lu • Chinese Simplified/21st Century Publishing House • Dutch/Uitgeverij Hoogland • French/Kaleidoscope • German/Berlin Verlag • Hebrew/Kinneret • Italian/Babalibri • Japanese/Mitsumura • Korean/Open Books • Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Pas E Terra • Portuguese (Portugal)/Editorial Presenca • Russian/ Pink Giraffe • Slovenian/Zalozba Eno • Spanish/Oceano Mexico • Thai/Siam Cement Group Foundation
It’s a Book by Lane Smith Roaring Brook Press
New York Times Bestseller (24 weeks!)
Rights sales: Arabic/Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing • Australian & NZ/Walker Books Australia • Chinese Complex/Global Kids Books• Chinese Simplified/21st Century Publishing House • Dutch/Lemniscaat Publishers • French/Editions Gallimard • German/Carl Hanser Verlag • Greek/Kaleidoscope Publications • Hebrew/Am Oved Publishers • Hungarian/Csimota Konyvkiado • Italian/RCS Libri SpA Rizzoli • Japanese/BL Publishing Co. • Norwegian/H. Aschehoug & Co. • Norwegian Second Serial/Morgenbladet • Korean/Munhakdongne • Portuguese (Brazil)/Cia Das Letras • Portuguese (Portugal)/Editorial Prescenca • Russian/Pink Giraffe Books • Spanish/Oceano Mexico • Swedish/Raben & Sjorgren • UK/Macmillan
It’s a Little Book by Lane Smith Roaring Brook Press
Now in diapers! For the youngest readers who still prefer to chew on a book rather than read it. It’s a Little Book promises to delight a new generation of readers.
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Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press
“It represents picture book making at its very best.” - School Library Journal, starred review
“Is this a first in a series? We can only hope.” - Horn Book, starred review
“Lovely, inventive, engrossing and interactive.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Rights sales: French/Kaleidoscope • Spanish/Ediciones Castillo
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From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World by James Rumford Roaring Brook Press
“...a beautiful addition.” - School Library Journal, starred review “...quietly stunning.” - Wall Street Journal
What took a mountain to make? For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century, to a time when books were made by hand and Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with movable type.
Rights sales: Japanese/Asunaro Shobo Publishing Co., Ltd.
The Bear in the Book by Kate Banks, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers “Simply spectacular.” - Kirkus, starred review “...an extraordinary portrait of the tender, meandering, and inquisitive nature of reading together.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
“...cozy and deceptively simple.” - Booklist, starred review “...the perfect way to share a picture book.” - SLJ, starred review Rights sales: Catalan/Juventud • French/Gallimard • Japanese/Poplar Publishing Co. • Spanish/Juventud
Little Tug by Stephen Savage Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press Little Tug may not be very tall or very fast, but when the big ships in the harbor need help, they know they can count on him to be there with a push, a pull, and a ride to safety. But what happens when little Tug gets tired?
Rights sales: French/Gallimard
The Ant and the Grasshopper by Rebecca Emberley, illustrated by Ed Emberley Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press “The Emberleys offer such a joyful, imaginative interpretation of the classic that even the youngest will understand the unstated message to ‘eat, drink and be merry.’” - Kirkus, starred review
“a joyful celebration of community and music with a Cajun flair.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
Rights sales: French (Canada)/Scholastic Canada • French (France)/Albin Michel
My Snake Blake by Randy Siegel, illustrated by Serge Bloch Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press
“Clever, laugh-out-loud fun.” - Kirkus, starred review
“Channeling artists like Saul Steinberg, Robert C. Osborn and Jules Feiffer, he gets the wry, relaxed humor just right. His boy is adorable, as is his snake.” - New York Times
Rights sales: French/Editions Sarbacane
Another Brother by Matthew Cordell Feiwel & Friends
“This is not just another new-baby book: Cordell’s humorous text and mischievously silly, expressive cartoon art will have readers bleating to read it again and again.” - Kirkus, starred review
“Think Richard Scarry’s warmth and scale, with a minimalist approach to setting.” - SLJ, starred review
Rights sales: Chinese Simplified/Macmillan Century • Italian/Castello/Margherita Edizioni
Tumford’s Rude Noises by Nancy Tillman Feiwel & Friends “Charming.” - Wall Street Journal
Tumford is one rude kitty in this hilarious story about manners, delivered with humor and love by the incomparable Nancy Tillman.
Rights sales for Tumford the Terrible: Korean/The Book in My Life (2-Book deal) • Russian/Kariera Press • Spanish/Linteo Ediciones 45 farrar, straus and giroux books for young readers backlist
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Everything on a Waffle The Survival Kit The Cricket in Times Stories for Children by Polly Horvath by Donna Freitas by George Selden by Isaac Bashevis Singer -Printz Honor Square -Newbery Honor -Newbery Honor -SLJ, starred review National Book Award finalist
Abel’s Island The Goats by Brock Cole How to Steal a Dog A Wrinkle in Time: the Snow White & the Seven by William Steig -Film coming soon! by Barbara O’Connor Graphic Novel Dwarfs by Nancy Eckholm -Newbery Honor -Horn Book, Kirkus starred -Korean film coming soon! byMadeleine L’Engle & Burkert & Randall Jarrell reviews -SLJ, starred review Hope Larson -Caldecott Honor
Close Your Eyes Planting the Tress of Energy Island Puss in Boots Moonbird by Kate Bank, illustrated Kenya by Claire Nivola by Allan Drummond by Charles Perrault, illustrated by Phillip Hoose by Georg Hallensleben - SLJ, PW, Booklist, starred -SLJ, starred review by Fred Marcellino -Booklist, Horn Book, -New York Times Best reviews -Caldecott Honor Kirkus, PW, starred Illustrated reviews
Snow How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz by Uri Shulevitz The Treasure The Champion of Children Why Noah Chose the Dove -Caldecott Honor -Caldecott Honor by Uri Shulevitz by Tomek Bogacki by Isaac Singer, illustrated by -Caldecott Honor -Licensed in 6 languages Eric Carle
Shrek! Doctor De Soto The Gardener by Sarah The Quiet Place The Pout-Pout Fish by William Steig by William Steig Stewart & David Small by Sarah Stewart & by Deborah Diesen -Now a major motion -Newbery Honor -Caldecott Honor David Small -New York Times Bestseller -Booklist, Kirkus, PW picture series starred reviews 46 feiwel & friends • backlist
The Humming Room The Poison Apples Angel In My Pocket he irl ho ould by Ellen Potter T G W C Brooklyn Bridge by Lily Archer by Ilene Cooper Fly by Victoria Forester by Karen Hesse -Booklist, PW, starred -PW, starred review -New York Times reviews -PW, Kirkus, starred reviews bestseller
Before You Go Zombie Blondes The Marbury Lens It’s the First Day of by James Preller by Brian James by Andrew Smith School...Forever Trouble Gum -PW, Booklist, starred reviews by R.L. Stine by Matthew Cordell
Cooking With Henry and ate and ate are iss ina s allerinas K N M L ’ B The Tushy Book Tumford the Terrible EllieBelly Running Late by Kate by Grace Macarone, ill. by Fran Manushkin, ill. by Nancy Tillman by Carolyn Parkhurst, ill. by Dan Egan, ill. by Dan by Christine Davenier by Tracy Dockray Yacarrino Yaccarino -PW, starred review
by Rachel Piggy Bunny A Pirate’s Guide to The Belly Book by The Crown on Your On the Night You Were Vail, ill. by Jeremy by James First Grade Fran Manushkin, ill. by Head by Nancy Tillman Born by Nancy Tillman Tankard Preller Dan Yaccarino -Over 700,000 copies sold -BCCB, starred review -PW, SLJ, starred reviews
Another Brother Bloom eep by Matthew Cordell P Splash Tumble by Maria van Lieshout by Maria van Lieshout by Maria van Lieshout by Maria van Lieshout
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Laika Zita the Spacegirl Robot Dreams Foiled by Nick Abadzis by Ben Hatke by Sara Varon by Jane Yolen, ill. by -Eisner Award -Kirkus, starred review -Booklist, PW, SLJ, starred Mike Cavallaro reviews, Kirkus feature
Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, & Alexis Frederick-Frost American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Anya’s Ghost rain amp -Booklist Top 10 Graphic Novels by Vera Brosgol B C -Printz Medal by Susan Kim & Laurence -ALSC Notable Book -Eisner Award -Eisner Award Klavan, ill. by Faith Erin -BCCB, Booklist, Horn Book, Hicks Kirkus, SLJ starred reviews
Feynman by Jim Ottaviani, Friends with Boys Drawing Words & Writing Astronaut Academy ill. by Leland Myrick by Faith Erin Hicks Pictures by Dave Roman -Horn Book, starred review -Kirkus, SLJ, starred by Jessica Abel & Matt Madden reviews -BCCB recommended
Cat Burglar Black by Richard Sala The Eternal Smile Life Sucks The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Gene Luen Yang, ill. by by Jessica Abel & Gabe by Aaron Renier Derek Kirk Kim Soria, ill. by Warren
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Masterpiece by Elise Broach Breaking Stalin’s The Surrender Tree Thimble Summer The Night She -ALA Notable Nose Children’s Book by Eugene Yelchin by Margarita Engle by Margarita Engle Disappeared -New York Times Bestseller -Newbery Honor -Newbery Honor -Newbery Honor by April Henry
old ands arm The Adoration of Jenna When Zachary Beaver Give Up the Ghost C H , W Emmy and the by Mary E. Pearson Heart Fox Came to Town by by Megan Crewe Incredible Shrinking Rat -PW, SLJ, Kirkus, starred by Jill Wolfson by Lynne Jonell Kimberly Willis Holt reviews -National Book Award
by Nikki Giovanni; In the Small, Small Are You Awake? Rosa The Empty Pot Stop Snoring, Bernard! Pond by Denise Fleming by Sophie Blackall Illus. Bryan Collier by Demi by Zachariah Ohora -Caldecott Honor -SLJ, starred review -Caldecott Honor -Society of Illustrators Prize
Welcome to Monster Town Cloudette by Tom Arnie, the Doughnut Hondo and Fabian Jeremy Draws a Monster by Ryan Heshka Lichtenheld by Laurie Keller by Peter McCarty by Peter McCarty -Dreamworks Animation -NYTBR Notable Book -Caldecott Honor - Kirkus, starred review Movie option -PW “Editor’s Pick -SLJ, starred review
ole usic M M Tikki Tikki Tembo Grammy Lamby and the Katie Loves the Kittens Every Friday by David McPhail by Arlene Mosel, illus- Secret Handshake by John Himmelman by Dan Yaccarino trated by Blair Lent by Kate Klise, illustrated by -Bologna Ragazzi Mention -Kirkus, starred review Sarah M. Klise -NYT Book Review Best 49 Illustrated Books of the Year roaring brook press • backlist FIRST SECOND 2010
The Old Country Emil & Karl The Other Felix Scrawl 12 Things to Do Before by Yankev Glatshteyn by Keir Graff by Mordicai Gerstein by Mark Shulman You Crash and Burn -Booklist,SLJ, starred reviews by James Proimos
he nt and the The Prince’s New Pet T A Auracle La Línea Coral Reefs Grasshopper by Brian Anderson by Jason Chin by Gina Rosati byAnn Jaramillo by Ed & Rebecca Emberley -Kirkus, starred review -Booklist, starred review -Kirkus, starred review -Kirkus, starred review
Prudence Wants a Pet by Cathleen Daly, illustrated by Stephen Michael King There by Marie-Louise -BCCB, Kirkus, starred reviews A Home for Bird Christo & Jeanne- -PW, starred review No! Fitzpatrick by Philip C. Stead Claude by David McPhail -Booklist, Horn Book, Kirkus, -PW, starred review by Jan Greenberg -Licensed in 5 languages PW, starred reviews
Dog & Bear First the Egg by Laura One Boy A Sick Day for Amos McGee It’s a Book by Laura Vaccaro Vaccaro Seeger by Laura Vaccaro Seeger by Philip C. Stead, illustrated by by Lane Smith Seeger -Caldecott Honor - Theodor Seuss Geisel Erin Stead -New York Times Bestseller --New York Times Best Honor -Caldecott Medal Illustrated -New York Times Best Illustrated
Sea of Dreams Mousterpiece by Dennis Nolan by Jane Breskin Zalben Grandpa Green by Lane Smith nd hen t s pring -Kirkus, starred review -Booklist, Kirkus, starred Bad Kitty A T I ’ S -Caldecott Honor by Nick Bruel by Julie Fogliano, ill. by Erin reviews E. Stead -Booklist, Horn Book, Kirkus, PW, SLJ, starred reviews
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