2017 Picture Book Rights Catalogue
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FOR RIGHTS QUERIES CONTACT: Nerrilee Weir, Senior Rights Manager Tel: +61 2 8923 9892 Email: [email protected] Eleanor Shorne Holden, Rights Manager Tel: +61 3 8537 4619 Email: [email protected] www.penguinrandomhouse.com.au/rights PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA RIGHTS SOLD SEPTEMBER 2016 TO FEBRUARY 2017
Lots A River Marc Martin Marc Martin North America (Chronicle), Italy (Adriano Salani Editore), Taiwan (China Times Japan (Kaiseisha), Russia Publishing), Japan (Kaiseisha (Samokat), Chinese Simplified Ltd.), Russia (Samokat), (ThinKingdom Press); Chinese Simplified previous rights sales include: (ThinKingdom Press); Sweden (Mirando Books), previous rights sales include: Taiwan (Hsinex International), United Kingdom (Templar), United Kingdom (Templar), Sweden (Mirando Books), North America (Chronicle Books), Korea (Wisdom House) France (Editions Circonflexe), Korea (Kids-M)
Max A Forest Marc Martin Marc Martin Taiwan (China Times Italy (Adriano Salani Publishing), Chinese Editore), Taiwan (China Simplified (ThinKingdom Times Publishing), Japan Press); (Rikuyosha); previous rights sales include: previous rights sales include: United Kingdom (Templar) United Kingdom (Templar), France (Editions Circonflexe), Korea (Kids-M), Italy (Adriano Salani Editore), Chinese Simplified (China Ollie and the Wind Electric Power Press), Breton Ronojoy Ghosh (Association An Oaled) Chinese Simplified (Publishing House Is Your Grandmother a Electronics Industry); Goanna? previous rights sales include: Pamela Allen Taiwan (Taiwan Mac) Chinese Simplified (Dolphin Media)
Sophie Scott Goes South Alison Lester Chinese Simplified (Dolphin Media Are We There Yet? Alison Lester Co. Ltd); previous rights sales include: Taiwan (Abula Press Inc.); North America (Houghton Mifflin), previous rights sales include: Korea (A Thousand Hopes), Spain North America (Kane Miller), (Ediciones Ekare), Japan (Komine Chinese Simplified (Qing Dao Shoten), Poland (Wydawnictwo Publishing House), Taiwan REA-SJ), Greece (Kaleidoscope (Abula Press), Korea (Yeowon Publications) Media)
2 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 PICTURE BOOK RIGHTS CATALOGUE PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA RIGHTS SOLD SEPTEMBER 2016 TO FEBRUARY 2017
Bruiser Something Wonderful Gavin Bishop Raewyn Caisley and Karen Blair Korea (Hansol Soobook (illus.) Publishing); Korea (Greatbooks, inc.) previous rights sales include: Chinsese Simplified (Beijing Normal University), Taiwan (Little Bear Books)
Big Rain Coming The Man with Messy Hair Katrina Germein Pamela Allen Chinese Simplified (Beijing Chinese Simplified (Dolphin United Publishing Co.); Media); previous rights sales include: previous rights sales include: North America (Clarion) Israel (Sefer Lakol)
Where is the Green Sheep? No Place Like Home Mem Fox and Judy Horacek Ronojoy Ghosh (illus.) Germany (Helmut Lingen Brazil (Saber e Ler); Verlag GmbH), Chinese previous rights sales include: Simplified (Publishing House Vietnam (Quangvan Books and of Electronics Industry); Media Joint Stock Co.), previous rights sales include: New Zealand (Huia Publishing), Korea (Conko Co. Ltd), Spain Israel (Modan Publishing), (Terapias Verdes), Taiwan Japan (Ric Publications), United (Taiwan Mac) Kingdom (Chrysalis Children’s Books), Kyrgyzstan (Sonoon Jer), Korea (Youngkyo Publishing Co.), Chinese Simplified (Dolphin Media Co.), Taiwan (Ecus Publishing House), Audio (Bolinda Publishing)
3 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 PICTURE BOOK RIGHTS CATALOGUE PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA RIGHTS SOLD JANUARY TO AUGUST 2016
Little Cat and the Big Red Bus How Big is Too Small? Jane Godwin and Anna Walker Jane Godwin and Andrew (illus.) Joyner (illus.) Chinese Simplified (Guangxi Chinese Simplified (Phoenix Normal University Press Group); Juvenile & Children’s previous rights sales include: Publishing House) Taiwan (Abula Press), Chinese Simplified (Jiangsu Phoenix Juvenile & Children’s Publishing), France (Editions Circonflexe), Japan (Mitsumura Educational), Korea (Bluebird Publishing) The Gobbledygook and the Scribbledynoodle Justine Clarke, Arthur Baysting and Tom Jellett (illus.) Korea (Noran Sang Sang)
This is a Circle Chrissie Krebs North America (SkyHorse), Spain (Editorial Heliasta SRL) Ziba Came on a Boat Liz Lofthouse and Robert Ingpen (illus.) Taiwan (Grennland Creative Co.); previous rights sales include: North America (Kane Miller), Spain (Loguez Ediciones), Korea (Bom Bom Books) Little Bug Books: Birds Fly Little Bug Books: Cows Say Moo Little Bug Books: Herd of Elephants Little Bug Books: Monkeys Live in Trees Little Bug Books: Pigs Have Piglets and Little Bug Books: Starfish Graeme Base Chinese Simplified (Shanghai All One Culture Diffusion Co. Ltd)
4 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 PICTURE BOOK RIGHTS CATALOGUE Picture Book Awards and Nominations 2017 and 2016
Suri’s Wall by Lucy Estela and Matt Otley (illus.) Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2016 – Children’s Book Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Picture Book
Mr Huff by Anna Walker Winner, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Picture Book Shortlisted, Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2016 – Children’s Fiction Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Picture Books Longlisted, Indie Book Awards 2016 – Children’s Books
From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle by Kate de Goldi Winner, New Zealand Book Awards 2016 – Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Junior Fiction Awarded a White Raven by the International Youth Library 2016
A River by Marc Martin Shortlisted, Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2016 – Picture Fiction
Max by Marc Martin Shortlisted, REAL Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Picture Books
First to the Top by David Hill and Phoebe Morris (illus.) Winner, New Zealand Book Awards 2016 – Hell Children’s Choice Award Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Picture Book
Ollie and the Wind by Ronojoy Ghosh Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Three to Five Years
The Worm Who Knew Karate by Jill Lever and Terry Denton (illus.) Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Three to Five Years
Once I Heard a Little Wombat by Renée Treml Winner, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Birth to Three Years Joint Winner, Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2016 – Picture Fiction
How Big is Too Small by Jane Godwin and Andrew Joyner (illus.) Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Three to Five Years
Something Wonderful by Raewyn Caisley and Karen Blair (illus.) Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Three to Five Years
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A Patch from Scratch by Megan Forward Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Five to Eight Years
Hello From Nowhere by Raewyn Caisley and Karen Blair (illus.) Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier’s Award 2016 – Children’s Books Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2016 – Children’s Literature Shortlisted, WAYRBA Children’s Choice Awards 2016 – Picture Books
Our Island by Alison Lester and Elizabeth Honey Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier’s Award 2016 – Children’s Books
My Dog Bigsy by Alison Lester Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood Longlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 – Book of the Year for Younger Children Longlisted, Indie Book Awards 2016 – Children’s
Eye to Eye by Graeme Base Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Picture Book Longlisted, Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 – Book of the Year for Younger Children
For the Forest of a Bird by Sue Saliba Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Older Readers
I’m a Hungry Dinosaur by Janeen Brian and Ann James (illus.) Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood Shortlisted, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2016 – Birth to Three Years
Meet… Weary Dunlop by Claire Saxby and Jeremy Lord (illus.) Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Crichton Award for New Illustrators
What Do You Wish For? by Jane Godwin and Anna Walker (illus.) Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Early Childhood
Why I Love Footy by Michael Wagner and Tom Jellett (illus.) Notable, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2016 – Picture Book
Stripes! No, Spots! by Vasanti Unka Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Picture Book
Roly the Anzac Donkey by Glyn Harper and Jenny Cooper (illus.) Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Picture Book
Henry’s Stars by David Elliot Storylines Notable Book Award 2016 – Picture Book
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AARON BLABEY has won a Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year and an AFI Award, and his book The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon won the Patricia Wrightson Award in the 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and also won a Children’s Peace Literature Award. Aaron has been included on the Smithsonian Institute’s Notable Book List and was a National Literacy Ambassador in 2012.
Sales Points • Aaron Blabey’s picture books have received much media and trade attention with their magical stories accompanied by his trademark style of painting and clever approach to humour. • Aaron has gained much recent success with his picture books about Pig The Pug, raising his author profile to new heights. Guff is Guff aimed at a similar preschool audience. Aaron Blabey Awards for Pearl Barley and Charley Parsley Pub date: August 2017 • Winner, 2008 CBCA Book of the Year Format: 32pp – 270 x 240mm • Shortlisted, 2008 NSW Premier’s Literary Rights held: World excl. North America Awards – Patricia Wrightson Prize Rights sold previous titles Pearl Barley and Charley • Notable Book, 2008 Smithsonian Institute’s Parsley: North America (Front Street), Korea (Seyong Book List (USA) Publishing), Slovenia (Kud Sodobnost International), Awards for Sunday Chutney Taiwan (Alvita Publishing Co Ltd), Chinese Simplified • Shortlisted, 2009 CBCA Book of the Year (Citic Publishing House); Sunday Chutney: North Awards for The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon America (Front Street), Korea (Seyong Publishing), • Winner, 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Slovenia (Vodnikova Zalozba), Chinese Simplified (Citic – Patricia Wrighton prize Publishing House); The Brothers Quibble: Brazil (Editora • Notable Book, 2012 CBCA Book of the Year Fundamento), Chinese Simplified (Citic Publishing • Selected as a 2012 White Raven House); Noah Dreary: Spain (Limonero), Brazil (Editora Awards for The Dreadful Fluff Fundamento), Chinese Simplified (Citic Publishing • Winner, 2013 APA Book Design Award for House); Stanley Paste: Slovenia (Kud Sodobnost), Best Designed Children’s Cover of the Year Chinese Simplified (Citic Publishing House), Korea (Yisu • Notable Book, 2013 CBCA Book of the Year Publishing) Division: Australia – Penguin Awards for The Brothers Quibble • Notable Book, 2015 CBCA Book of the Year Aaron Blabey combines beautifully rendered illustrations with brilliantly chosen text to bring a huge amount of heart to this special story as well as finding the laugh-out-loud humour in everyday situations. This is my Guff. He’s really nice. I’ve known him since I was little. And I still know him even now I’m big . . . A funny and delightful picture book for 4+ for anyone who’s ever had a little fabric friend. From the award-winning and best-selling author, Aaron Blabey.
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Rights sold previous titles Lots: North America (Chronicle), United Kingdom (Templar), Korea (Wisdom House Publishing), Sweden (Mirando Books), Taiwan (China Times Publishing Company), Japan (Kaiseisha), Russia (Samokat), China (ThinKingdom Press); A River: North America (Chronicle Books), United Kingdom (Templar), France (Editions Circonflexe), Korea (Kids-M), Sweden (Mirando Books), Taiwan (Hsinex International), Italy (Adriano Salani Editore), China (ThinKingdom Press), Japan (Rikuyosha); A Forest: (United Kingdom (Templar), France What’s Up Top (Editions Circonflexe), China (China Electric Marc Martin Power Press), Italy (Adriano Salani Editore), Pub date: September 2017 Taiwan (China Times Publishing Company), Format: 40pp – 280 x 200mm Korea (Kids-M), Japan (Rikuyosha); Rights held: World Max: United Kingdom (Templar), Taiwan Division: Australia – Penguin (China Times Publishing Company), China (ThinKingdom Press); A new picture book about imagination and Curious Explorer’s Guide: United Kingdom creativity from the award-winning author of Lots (Templar), China (ThinKingdom Press) and A River. What’s at the top of the ladder? Is it a hat? Is it a cat? Is it a snail on a whale? Simple, playful and absurdist, this new picture book by Marc Martin is about imagination and creativity. Reminiscent of Press Here by Herve Tullet, Dr Seuss and I Want my Hat Back by Jon Klassen. MARC MARTIN is an illustrator, artist and Is it a book maker based in Melbourne, Australia. His dog? illustrations have been commissioned by clients such as Monocle magazine, Wired magazine, The Financial Review, Capital magazine, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and various festivals. His work is a world of dense colour, rich textures and the odd scribble. He is also the author and illustrator of five
books: Silent Observer (Erm Books), The Or a frog Curious Explorer’s Illustrated Guide to Exotic ... on a log? Animals A–Z, Max, A River, A Forest and Lots (Penguin Books). Marc’s books are published internationally, and A Forest won the 2013 Crichton Award for Children’s Book Illustration.
It could be Or a castle a boat? and moat?
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MARC MARTIN is an illustrator, artist and book maker based in Melbourne, Australia. His illustrations have been commissioned by clients such as Monocle magazine, Wired magazine, The Financial Review, Capital magazine, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and various festivals. He is also the author and illustrator of five books, A Forest, Silent Observer (Erm Books), The Curious Explorer’s Illustrated Guide to Exotic Animals A–Z, Max and A River (Penguin Books, 2015). Marc’s books are published internationally, and A Forest won the 2013 Crichton Award for Children’s Book Illustration.
Lots Marc Martin
Pub date: October 2016 Format: 40pp – 235 x 320mm Rights held: World Rights sold previous titles: See page 8 Division: Australia – Penguin
A stunning graphic picture book by award-winning author-illustrator Marc Martin with quirky facts about different places around the world – from Hong Kong to the Amazon, Antarctica and India. A book about everything for all ages. A book about everything* for everyone. From Hong Kong to the Amazon and Ulaanbaatar to Antarctica, come on a guided journey around the world and discover the many things that make each place unique. Sleepy sloths, colourful cows, prolific pastries, staggering skylines, terrible traffic, bustling bodies, burglarising baboons . . . you’ll be surprised by what you find along the way! *almost!
JUNE 2012
APRIL 2014 APRIL 2015
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Rights sold previous titles Starting School: France (Editions Circonflexe), Korea (Bluebird Publishing), Chinese Simplified (Guangxi Normal University Press Group); Little Red Cat and the Big Red Bus: France (Editions Circonflexe), Chinese Simplified (Jiangsu Phoenix Juvenile & Children’s Publishing Ltd ), Taiwan (Abula Press), Japan Go Go and the Silver Shoes (Mitsumura Educational), Korea (Bluebird Jane Godwin and Anna Walker (illus.) Publishing); Today We Have No Plans: France (Editions Pub date: March 2018 Circonflexe), Korea (Bluebird Publishing), Format: 32pp – 260 x 260mm Chinese Simplified (Guangxi Normal Rights held: World University Press Group); Division: Australia – Penguin All Through The Year: French (Editions The next heartfelt picture book from the winning Circonflexe), China (Guangxi Normal team of Jane Godwin & Anna Walker, about how a University Press Group) precious lost shoe leads a little girl to an even more precious friendship. Go Go is confident and creative about her clothes, even though most of them are hand- me-downs from her three older brothers. The only new things she ever gets are underwear and shoes. That’s why she loves new shoes, especially her latest and most precious silver shoes. But despite her mother’s warnings, Go Go wears them on a family picnic and loses one in the creek. Go Go is devastated, but continues to
The only things Go Go bought from wear her one remaining silver shoe, until one day a shop were underpants and shoes.
That’s why Go Go loved shoes. And one day, Go Go was allowed a new girl at school realises that she has one just New shoes. to choose the most beautiful shoes ever… like it . . . A beautiful story about being confidently individual and about the power of friendship. JANE GODWIN is a publisher and highly acclaimed author of many books for children. Her work is published internationally and she has received many commendations. Together with Anna Walker, Jane has created several bestselling picture books, including Little Cat ‘Yes, yes, let’s go!’ said Go Go.
‘I’m going on an adventure It was a good adventure. and the Big Red Bus, All Through the Year, Today down this creek,’ said Walter. ‘Me too,’ said Max. We Have No Plans, Starting School and most ‘Me too,’ said Finn. Until... recently, What Do You Wish For? ANNA WALKER writes and illustrates children’s books and is based in Melbourne. Anna’s book, as author-illustrator with Penguin, Mr Huff, won the 2016 CBCA Book of the Year for Early Go Go scrambled, Childhood and was shortlisted in the 2016 Prime Walter stumbled,
Minister’s Literary Awards. Together with Jane Max leant over, Godwin, Anna has also created many beautiful Finn went under. picture books, most recently the Christmas book, What Do You Wish For? Anna’s most
recent picture book as author-illustrator is the Oh no, Go Go! They all got very wet… delightful Florette.
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MARGARET MAHY is internationally recognised as one of today’s best writers for young readers. Twice winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal, she has also won the Esteher Glen Award five times and the Observer Teenage Fiction Award once. Margaret began writing children’s books in earnest at the age of eighteen, whilst training A PUFFIN ORIGINAL to be a children’s librarian. Her big break came fifteen years later – in 1968 – when an American publisher came across the text of A Lion in the The Christmas Tree Tangle Meadow and bought it, along with all the other Margaret Mahy and Sarah Davis (illus.) work Mahy had produced over the years. Eight books hit the presses simultaneously. Reissue pub date: November 2017 Original pub date: 1994 Margaret passed away on 23 July, 2012. Format: 32pp – 285 x 240mm Selected awards for Margaret Mahy Rights held: World • Winner, Carnegie Medal 1984, The Rights sold previous titles Witch in the Cherry Tree: United Changeover Kingdom (Orion); The Boy with Two Shadows: United Kingdom (Orion); Footsteps Through the Fog: Taiwan • Winner, Carnegie Medal 1982, The Haunting. (Linking Publishing Company); The Moon and Farmer Winner, 1986 IBBY Honour Book Award McPhee: Farsi (Kanoon) • Awarded The Order of New Zealand in 1993 Division: New Zealand – Penguin SARAH DAVIS illustrated her first picture book in The Christmas Tree Tangle is a tantalisingly tangly 2008, and in 2010 she quit her day job and began Christmas picture book written by the prestigious illustrating books full-time. Since then, she has Margaret Mahy. illustrated 37 books and been shortlisted for 30 Goodness gracious, what do I see? major awards in Australia and New Zealand. She works across a range of media and is constantly The kitten has climbed the Christmas tree! experimenting with new ways to tell stories Climbed so high and climbed so far visually. To cling with her claws to the Christmas star. Help! A cute little kitten has managed to scale to the very top of the town’s Christmas tree. The cat climbs up to rescue her, followed by the dog, the goat and the pigs. Amid squealing, bleating, barking and mewing, the clever little kitten climbs her way back down the tree, leaving all of her rescuers stuck! This exuberant Christmas tale is a festive treasure for every bookshelf. Full of humour, it is sure to delight readers young and old for many years to come. Creative New Zealand invites applications for funding towards the translation of this title. towards funding Creative New Zealand invites applications for www.publishers.org.nz/translation-grants/
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have garnered a glittering array of awards and commendations including six Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, two New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, an International Board on Books for Young People Diploma for Illustration, and the Margaret Mahy Medal, New Zealand’s most prestigious award for children’s literature.
Praise for Pamela Allen ‘From Pamela Allen’s first publication in 1980 it was clear that here was a creator of picture books with all the glow, gesture, din and dance to capture the attention, engage the imagination, teach, show, tickle and excite small children.’ MEG SORENSEN, AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
A Bag and a Bird Rights sold selected previous titles Pamela Allen Alexander’s Outing: United Kingdom (Hodder & Stoughton), Korea (Hansol Gyoyook); Pub date: September 2017 Belinda: Sweden (Carlsen Bokforlag), South Africa Format: 32pp – 212 x 248mm – Afrikaans (Knowledge Unlimited); Rights held: World Bertie and the Bear: France (Flammarion); Division: Australia – Penguin Brown Bread and Honey: Korea (Kidary Publishing Celebrated author-illustrator Pamela Allen retells a House), Chinese Simplified (Dolphin Media Co.); true story and celebrates some of Australian most Can You Keep a Secret?: China (Juvenile & famous icons in a series of delightful pictures for Children’s publishing House), Korea (Hansol the very young. Gyoyook); This is a story of a plastic bag and a bird – a cautionary tale about taking care of our Grandpa & Thomas: Chinese Simplfied (Qing Dao environment as well as being a wonderful Publishing House Co.), Korea (Hansol Education showcase of some of the famous sights of Co. Ltd.), Japan (Dowaya Ltd.); Sydney. Mr Mcgee: Chinese Simpified (Qing Dao One day, a long time ago when I lived in Kirribilli, Publishing House Co., Ltd), Japan (Kaisei-Sha Sydney, I packed a lunch and set out to walk to Publishing), France (Flammarion); the Botanic Gardens . . . Mr Mcgee & the Blackberry Jam: Sweden ( Carlsen I crossed the harbour bridge then climbed down Bokforlag), Korea (Koreaa Schweitzer); to Circular Quay. I walked beside the sea wall, Mr Mcgee & the Perfect Nest: Korea (Booxen Co.), past the Opera House until I reached the Botanic Chinese Simplified (Qing Dao Publishing House Gardens. Co., Ltd); And this is what I saw. Pear in the Pear Tree: China (Dolphin Media Co.), PAMELA ALLEN is a phenomenon in the Korea (Hansol Education Co. Ltd.); world of children’s literature. For more than Who Sank the Boat?: Korea (Pulbit Media Co.), thirty years her picture books have enchanted Sweden (Carlsen Bokforlag), Chinese Simplified generations of children around the world, and (Qing Dao Publishing House Co.)
He waded into the deep water, but he couldn’t reach the bird.
Here, John and his mother took o their backpacks and sat down to eat their picnic lunch. John pulled out the plastic bag and took out a sandwich. He climbed over the wall. ‘Yum,’ he said. ‘Honey.’ Could he save the bird? ‘I’ve got cucumber,’ said his mother. ‘Want one?’
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Rights sold selected previous titles Animalia: North America (Harry N Abrams), United Kingdom (Macmillan), Chinese Simplified (Modern Education Press), Canada (Stoddart Publishing); Discovery of Dragons: North America (Harry N Abrams Inc), Korea (Munhakdongne Publishing), Brazil (Editora Fundamento); Eleventh Hour: North America (Harry N Abrams), United Kingdom (Macmillan), Korea ( Korea Newton), Chinese Simplified (Shanghai All One Culture Diffusion Co. Ltd); Waterhole: North America (Penguin Random House LLC. USA), Spain (Ediciones Omega), Italy (Rizzoli Libri S.p.A), Denmark (Egmont Sesam Amazing Monster Detectoscope Publishing), Taiwan (Global Kids Books), Korea Graeme Base (Areah Publishing), Indonesia (PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama), Hebrew (Matar Publishing Pub date: October 2017 House), Chinsed Simplified (Shanghai All One Format: 28pp – 262 x 275mm – paper engineering Culture Diffusion Co. Ltd); Rights held: World Division: Australia – Penguin Worst Band in the Universe: North America (Penguin Random House LLC. USA), United A visually gorgeous, funny adventure from the Kingdom (Penguin Random House UK), Spain acclaimed creator of Animalia. (Ediciones SM), Denmark (Egmont Sesam This ode of childhood imagination features Publishing), French (Editions De La Martiniere) Graeme’s most intricate paper engineering yet and a host of cool creatures for kids to discover. When our hero uses his Amazing Monster DetectoScope he finds that the house is infested with monsters! Can he find the courage to face his fears? GRAEME BASE is one of the world’s leading creators of picture books. His alphabet book Animalia, received international acclaim when it was first published in 1986, and has achieved classic status with worldwide sales approaching three million copies. It has now inspired an animated TV series. Other favourites by Graeme Base include The Eleventh Hour, My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch, The Sign of the Seahorse, The Discovery of Dragons, The Worst Band in the Universe,The Waterhole, Jungle Drums and Uno’s Garden. In 2007 this last title featured in six major awards and was winner of three: Speech Pathology Book of the Year; The Green Earth Book, USA; The Wilderness Society Environment Award. In 2003, his first novel for young readers, TruckDogs, was released. It was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards the following year. In 2009 Graeme produced the the fascinating, beautiful and challenging book Enigma; can you crack the code? And in 2014 he published The Last King of Angkor Wat.
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Why I Love Summer MICHAEL WAGNER is a children’s author, Michael Wagner and Tom Jellett (illus.) speaker and storyteller. He writes for early childhood and for older children and his recent Pub date: January 2018 books include Why I Love Footy, illustrated by Format: 32pp – 270 x 270mm Tom Jellett. Rights held: World Prior to becoming a children’s author, Michael Division: Australia –Penguin spent ten years working as a radio broadcaster with the ABC, wrote and produced award- There are four seasons in a year, and they’re all winning animation for television, and wrote and awesome, but only one of them gets to be summer! performed comedy. He is the author of the Maxx A fun picture book with a commercial feel and real Rumble series, the Undys series and the Ted heart that can be enjoyed across a range of ages. series. There are four seasons in a year, and they’re TOM JELLETT has been an editorial illustrator all awesome, but only one of them gets to be for News Limited, working on The Australian, summer! There’s sunny days, weekends at the The Weekend Australian and The Daily Telegraph pool, games in the backyard, daylight until late and his work has appeared in the South China and long, lovely holidays, but the best thing Morning Post, The Week and Medical Observer. about summer is that we’re all here together! His picture book with Justine Clarke and Arthur By the acclaimed, bestselling creators of Why I Baysting, The Gobbledygook is Eating a Book, Love Footy (Notables list, Picture Book of the Year, has been an Australian bestseller. His latest CBCA 2016). picture book with Penguin Random House is Grandpa’s Big Adventure written by Paul Newman. In 2011, Tom was included in the editorial category for Illustrators 53, exhibited at the Society of Illustrators, New York.
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house on a farm just outside Wellington, New Zealand. As well as writing and illustrating children’s picture books, Ruth has worked as a costume illustrator for Peter Jackson movies. Ruth started writing and illustrating her own picture books in 2004 and has created over I am Jellyfish 15 titles. Her books have sold in USA, Canada, Ruth Paul the UK, China and Korea, with translations in 5 languages. Her original picture book illustrations Pub date: February 2018 have contributed to touring exhibitions for Format: 32pp – 285 x 240mm Painted Stories (previously Te Tai Tamariki Rights held: World Trust) and two are held in the prestigious Mazza Division: New Zealand – Penguin Collection at the University of Findlay, Ohio.
A captivating story with luminous illustrations and Awards for Ruth Paul language that is evocative of the deep blue sea, by • Winner, 2008 NZ Post Children’s Choice award-winning picture book creator Ruth Paul. picture book award, The King’s Bubbles What Jellyfish did, • Finalist, NZ Post Book Awards 2012, Stomp Nobody knew. • Selected for the US Kid’s Indie Next List 2014, Jellyfish thought, Bad Dog Flash Jellyfish thrummed: Sales Points “I drift and I dream,” • Ruth Paul is an accomplished, award- She quietly hummed. winning and internationally successful author/illustrator. Jellyfish quietly croons in the deep blue sea. • Stunning and eye-catching, full of intrigue, Knife-nosed Swordfish swooshes, races and chases with touches of humour and lots of extra Jellyfish, down, down, down, deep into the dark blue details to discover as it’s read over and over sea. again. Stealthy Squid stretches a tentacle, tousling and • The language is evocative of the undersea tossing Swordfish in the darkness. Then . . . ON goes environment, and the characteristics of the a light! Jellyfish! jellyfish, swordfish, and squid are captured RUTH PAUL lives in an off-grid, straw-bale simply and perfectly. • Luminous illustrations include glow-in-the- dark ink. Creative New Zealand invites applications for funding towards the translation of this title. towards funding Creative New Zealand invites applications for www.publishers.org.nz/translation-grants/
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Wolfie: An Unlikely Hero DEBORAH ABELA is the author of the Max Remy Deborah Abela and Connah Brecon (illus.) Superspy series, Jasper Zammit (Soccer Legend) series, Ghost Club series, The Remarkable Secret Pub date: May 2017 of Aurelie Bonhoffen, Grimsdon and New City. Format: 32pp – 245 x 245mm CONNAH BRECON is a British author-illustrator Rights held: World currently living in Melbourne, Australia, with his Division: Australia – Random House family. His picture books include Frank!, There’s This Thing and Wild Pa. I, The Wolf, am sick of being the bad guy. I’m taking over this book. Dear Readers, Fairytales are nonsense. They’re full of wolves pestering pigs and picking on sweet little girls in red hoods. But I would never do those things. I knit! I bake blueberry pie! You know what I really want to do? I WANT TO RESCUE A PRINCESS! And if I can’t? I QUIT! Yours sincerely, Wolfie Wolfie may want to be a hero, but he’s about to discover that arguing with this book’s narrator is not the best way to improve his image . . .
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Brothers from a Different Mother PHILLIP GWYNNE’s first novel Deadly Unna?, the literary hit of 1998, has now sold over Phillip Gwynne and Marjorie Crosby- 180,000 copies. It was made into the feature film Fairall (illus.) Australian Rules for which Phillip won an AFI Pub date: April 2017 award. The sequel, Nukkin Ya, was published to great acclaim in 2000. Format: 32pp – 215 x 260mm Rights held: World Phillip Gwynne has written numerous other Rights sold previous title Born to Bake: North America works for both children and adults, including a (The Perseus Books Group) number of titles in the Penguin Books ‘Aussie Division: Australia – Penguin Bites’ primary school series, and Swerve in 2009 (which has sold more than 9300 copies). He has From a master storyteller comes this heartfelt tale done a number of picture books over the last few of friendship . . . and seeing past our differences. years, most recently Little Piggy’s Got No Moves Tapir lives in the jungle. illustrated by Tom Jellett. Pig lives in the village. MARJORIE CROSBY-FAIRALL was born in America and currently lives in Sydney, But when they meet at the waterhole, they Australia. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in discover they are the same in so many ways. Illustration from Northern Illinois University. They might even be brothers from a different In 1997 she won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award mother! for Information Books and has since been shortlisted for other awards. She currently works as a freelance illustrator for educational publishers, general editorial book publishers and magazines. Marjorie loves to experiment with new techniques for her illustrations, but always seems to return to her beloved and well-used colour pencils.
Every day Tapir came down Every day Pig came down to the waterhole to play. to the waterhole to play.
‘That’s not possible,’ mooed Cow. ‘Not possible at all!’
Back in the village, Father Pig Tapir was so frightened he ran was worried, so he went Pig would look over at Tapir. quickly back in the direction looking for his son. Is that a pig, like me? he’d wonder. he’d come from.
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Me and You Deborah Kelly and Karen Blair (illus.) handy-helper days, I love our Pub date: March 2017 Format: 32pp – 240 x 275mm Rights held: World Division: Australia – Penguin
A delightful rhyming picture book that celebrates all the special relationships in a child’s life. Including their special bonds with parents, grandparents, cousins, neighbours and pets, our washing, cleaning, sorting days, as well as all the wonderful fun-filled days they MeAndYou_TXT_SI.indd 24 12/08/2016 12:03 pm enjoy together: from beach and baking days, to cycling and footy-kicking or simply lazy days. This is a joyous, accessible picture book perfect for sharing with children. DEBORAH KELLY’s recent picture books include The Bouncing Ball with Georgia Perry; Jam for Nana, illustrated by Lisa Stewart; and Dinosaur Disco, illustrated by Daron Parton. KAREN BLAIR’s recent titles include CBCA Honour Book With Nan, written by Tania Cox; Granny Grommet and Me by Dianne Wolfer; Baby Beats and Baby Animal Farm, both of which were written and illustrated by Karen.
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The Travel Bug BENJAMIN GILMOUR’s first anthology of poetry Benjamin Gilmour and James Gulliver was published in 1998. Since then, Benjamin Hancock (illus.) has travelled the world, worked as a paramedic, directed the critically acclaimed feature film Son Pub date: February 2017 of a Lion and published Warrior Poets (Allen & Format: 32pp – 220 x 283mm Unwin), a narrative non-fiction work about his Rights held: World experiences making the film in Pakistan’s border Division: Australia – Random House with Afghanistan. Benjamin’s most recent book is Paramedico The journey of a bug with an identity crisis. (HarperCollins, 2013) about paramedics around A strange little bug doesn’t know who he is or the world. A film of the same name screened at where he’s from. Even his name is a mystery. the Sydney Film Festival and was nominated for So he sets off to seek answers. He journeys the Foxtel Best Documentary Award, 2012. the world meeting wonderful creatures, seeing JAMES GULLIVER HANCOCK is an illustrator amazing sights and eating delicious food. who has travelled the world drawing obsessively Adventures he has, but still no one knows what since he was a little boy. His previous books insect he is. Maybe, just maybe, the path he is include Meet . . . Banjo Paterson, Lonely Planet’s on is the answer he seeks. The Travel Bug is a Not for Parents: How to be a World Explorer, and gently philosophical picture book about identity, his ‘All the Buildings in . . .’ series. fate, the joy of travelling, and the discovery of kindness and kinship across cultures.
He knew earwig and weevil, knew fl y and knew fl ea, but his own kind of species was a real mystery.
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JUNE FACTOR is also the author of Captain Cook Chased a Chook, which won the prestigious American Opie award in 1989.
ALISON LESTER ALISON LESTER (Australian Children’s HAS SOLD Laureate, 2012-2013) is one of Australia’s most OVER popular and bestselling creators of children’s 386,000 COPIES IN books. She has won many awards, including AUSTRALIA the 2005 Children’s Book Council of Australia AND NEW ZEALAND (CBCA) Picture Book of the Year Award for her much-loved classic Are We There Yet? and the 2012 CBCA Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award for One Small Island. Alison’s books have been published in North America, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Greece, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Germany, Argentina, Poland and Greece. Summer Praise for Summer June Factor and Alison Lester (illus.) ‘Each verse is followed by a double-page illustration which completely fills both pages Pub date: December 2016 and intensifies the mood created by the text. Original pub date: 1989 The pictures are full of humor – Grandma on Format: 32pp – 180 x 220mm new roller skates, Dad with measles – and are Rights held: World filled with intriguing details.’ SCHOOL LIBRARY Division: Australia – Penguin JOURNAL
A new edition of this classic picture book by Sales Points two of Australia’s best-loved children’s book • Alison Lester is one of our biggest selling creators. children’s creators and former Children’s June Factor’s simple text and Alison Lester’s Laureate. Her classic picture books have delightful illustrations combine together to won many awards and include My Dog Bigsy, create a special magic that captures the feeling Kissed by the Moon, Are We There Yet?, Noni of summer, and all that it brings: changing the Pony, Magic Beach, Running with the weather, family gatherings, lots of fun . . . and Horses and many, many more! Christmas. • June Factor is a writer and folklorist with a special interest in the lore and language of childhood. Her compilations Far Out Brussel Sprout! and Unreal Banana Peel! have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and Summer is a’comin’ in And all the flies are gatherin’. remained in print for well over 20 years.
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Puddin’ steamin’ in the pot, Pork and cracklin’, spuds, the lot.
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There is Something Weird in CHRISSIE KREBS is an author-illustrator who also teaches art and media at a secondary Santa’s Beard school in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs. Chrissie Krebs With a passion for drawing and telling amazing Pub date: November 2016 stories to get out of trouble, Chrissie grew up Format: 32pp – 245 x 245mm realising that the only thing she really wanted to do was write and illustrate children’s books. Rights held: World Rights sold previous title This is a Circle: North America (SkyHorse), Spain (Editorial Heliasta SRL) Division: Australia – Random House
Look out – it’s the blob that ate Christmas! Lovely Santa. He brings joy and gifts to children around the world. Secretly, he’s also a bit of a slob. He loves snacking on the treats children leave for him on Christmas Eve, but he isn’t quite as interested in washing his face and combing his beard. This year, the result isn’t just gross, it grows into something so monstrous that it destroys all the toys in Santa’s workshop. Will it become the blob that ate Christmas? Or will the reindeer’s secret talent save the day?
He licks a candy cane or two while riding on his sled, He opens up the workshop and blows up bubble gum balloons where he makes his Christmas toys, as big as his own head. but the blob devours all his wares with a horrid slurping noise.
This year he starts with biscuits and crumbly fruit mince pies. He slurps and burps down soft drink, and crunches salty fries.
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Because no one wants to see another grotty nasty blob.
And Santa has made a promise to be less of a slob . . .
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JUSTINE CLARKE is one of Australia’s most accomplished and admired performers: a best-selling children’s singer; acclaimed film, television and stage actress with credits that include Tangle, Love My Way, Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome, Japanese Story and Hedda Gabler. With this is also her constant, reassuring presence on the ABC TV institution, Play School and recent critical and commercial success The Time of Our Lives. ARTHUR BAYSTING is an award-winning screenwriter, children’s television writer, a songwriter and an advocate for children’s rights. He is originally from New Zealand and used to be a stand-up comedian. TOM JELLETT see page 14 for bio. Praise for The Gobbledygook and the Scribbledynoodle The Gobbledygook and the ‘Not only is this a clever book in regards to Scribbledynoodle concept, it takes a very difficult, frustrating Justine Clarke, Arthur Baysting and situation (a misbehaving creature) and Tom Jellett (illus.) teaches children how love, inclusiveness, warm attention and redirection can totally transform Pub date: October 2016 the wayward to the wonderful. Its messaging Format: 32pp – 250 x 250mm is subtle and beautifully done.’ KIDS’ BOOK Rights held: World REVIEW Rights sold: Korea (Noran Sang Sang) ‘The Gobbledygook and the Scribbledynoodle Rights sold previous title The Gobbledygook is Eating a is an enthusiastic celebration of creativity and Book: France (Editions Circonflexe), Korea (Noran Sang companionship.’ MAGPIES Sang Publishers) Division: Australia – Penguin Praise for The Gobbledygook is Eating a Book ‘A delightful, fun and gorgeous book both kids A delightful and fun book for preschoolers from and adults will adore.’ KIDS BOOK REVIEW the ever-popular singer, actress and children’s TV presenter, Justine Clarke, teamed with Arthur Awards for The Gobbledygook is Eating a Baysting. Book Look! Look! It’s the Gobbledygook! • Winner, APA Book Design Awards 2013 He’s reading his favourite mon-story book. • Shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards 2013 He’s taking a look at his mon-story friends. And this is where the story really begins . . . OVER When a monster jumps right out of the 15,000 COPIES Gobbledygook’s library book, it takes a bit of SOLD IN clever handling to stop the Scribbledynoodle AUSTRALIA from scribbling on things it shouldn’t. AND NEW ZEALAND
OCTOBER 2012
Alright, that’s it! Enough is enough We take the scribbler out by the scru
So the noodle it doodles all over the wall! The librarian doesn’t notice at all
It wriggles and wrestles and tries to get free She’s lying back and having a kip Until we sit down in the shade of a tree The footpath sparkles like stars on the ground It draws a moustache on the top of her lip We pretend to be astronauts flying around
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RAYMOND MCGRATH is an award-winning animation director, animator, illustrator, designer and writer who has been working in children’s television and advertising for nearly twenty years. He is the creator and director of the educational pre-school TV series Puzzle Inc, and he has both written and illustrated numerous Did You Hear a Monster? picture books. Raymond McGrath Praise for Did You Hear a Monster? Pub date: October 2016 ‘Plenty of suspense (but a lovely surprise at Format: 32pp – 245 x 260mm the end), cute drawings and a really nice short Rights held: World bedtime read for those little ones who are Division: New Zealand – Penguin developing fears of the dark or anything else.’ DAILY POST, ROTORUA A delightful monster-themed picture book and ‘. . . a monster story with just the right amount of CD from the award-winning author of It’s Not a drama and spookiness, well balanced with comic Monster, It’s ME! relief in the form of funny facial expressions Clarice Caroline is not exactly a brave little girl. in the illustrations and the surprise ending.’ In fact, Clarice Caroline is a little frightened of BOOKSELLERS NZ . . . everything! ‘The perfect bedtime read for little ones who So she always wears her helmet (just in case). have a fear of the dark.’ LITTLE TREASURES So why is Clarice Caroline out of bed in the Awards for Have You Seen a Monster? middle of the night, to investigate a bump and a • Notable, 2015 Storylines Notable Book Award THUMP? • Shortlisted, 2015 LIANZA awards A companion title to It’s Not a Monster, It’s ME! and the award-winning Have You Seen a Monster?, this is a story filled with charming suspense, with a surprise twist at the end. The
package includes a bonus CD with three songs In fact, Clarice Caroline is a little frightened of . . . So she always wears performed by The Little City Critters, plus a read- her helmet (just in case). along version of the story.
everything!
But when her best friend gets scared of the dark . . .
So why is she tiptoeing along floorboards, c-r-e-a-k creaking? Creative New Zealand invites applications for funding towards the translation of this title. towards funding Creative New Zealand invites applications for www.publishers.org.nz/translation-grants/
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One Photo ROSS WATKINS is an author and illustrator Ross Watkins and Liz Anelli (illus.) for both children and adults. His first major publication was the illustrated book The Boy Pub date: September 2016 Who Grew Into a Tree (Penguin 2012), and Format: 32pp – 198 x 264mm his award winning short fiction and non- Rights held: World fiction have been published in Australia and Rights sold: North America (Candlewick), China (TB internationally. Ross was shortlisted for the Publishing Ltd) 2011 Queensland Premier’s Award for Emerging Division: Australia – Penguin Authors, and he teaches creative writing on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. From Ross Watkins, the illustrator of The Boy Who Grew Into a Tree, and Liz Anelli, comes this LIZ ANELLI makes her pictures using collage moving picture book about family, the failings and printmaking as well as paint and pencils. of memory and the strength of love. She was awarded an Australian Society of Authors Children’s Picture Book Illustrators’ Told in stunning prose, with poignant artwork, Initiative in 2014 and will be taking up a May this book is a celebration of what we hold Gibbs Trust Fellowship to Adelaide in 2015. dearest.
When Mum saw the window almost full with the photographs, she yelled at him. Aren’t we worth remembering? she said.
Dad just looked confused, and I reminded her about him forgetting things.
Which included us.
Which made us cry.
Dad came home one day with one of those old cameras, the kind that use film.
He said nothing about it, though. He just took the camera from its box, put it to his eye, and walked into his study.
My study is my brain, he always said.
Dad had his ways.
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JEN STORER has worked behind the scenes in publishing as an editor, a project manager and in creative development. She is now a full-time writer for young people. Her gothic fantasy novel, Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children, was shortlisted for a string of awards including the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (Best Children’s Fiction) and the CBCA Book of the Year. ANDREW JOYNER is an internationally published illustrator and author. His books include The Terrible Plop, written by Ursula Dubosarsky (shortlisted for the CBCA awards and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards), and the Boris series. Boris Gets a Lizard was shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Awards and Ready, Set, Boris was a Notable book in the CBCA Awards.
Blue, The Builder’s Dog Praise for Blue, The Builder’s Dog Jen Storer and Andrew Joyner (illus.) ‘One of those true picture books where the Pub date: September 2016 marriage between text and illustration is so Format: 32pp – 248 x 248mm synergistic that it touches something within and Rights held: World becomes a read-it-again-and-again favourite.’ Division: Australia – Penguin BARBARA BRAXTON, TEACHER LIBRARIAN NETWORK Trucks, cranes, mixers and diggers, and one very ‘Blue himself is a dog with attitude, an engaging determined builder’s dog . . . A funny, sweet picture character with whom children can identify. This book about finding your place in the world and is true blue, well-crafted entertainment.’ THE being part of a team. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Meet Blue, the Builder’s Dog. On the construction site, he’s part of the team. He Sales Points guards the tools, signs the concrete slabs and • Jen Storer is the popular and acclaimed keeps stickybeaks away. But Blue doesn’t have author of Tensy Farlow, The Accidental a house of his own. The builder has one. The Princess, Truly Tan and more. chippie has one. The architect and the big • With illustrations by the award-winning bosses have one. So he decides to quit and build illustrator of The Terrible Plop and Too Many one himself . . . Elephants in This House. • Light and funny and perfect for boys with its focus on a work site and building. • Blue deals beautifully with the issues confronting pre-school and prep children – an increasing need for independence, new and difficult expectations, and uncertainty around where they fit into their world.
And he was mates with the whole team.
The next morning Blue was in the When the builder went to work the next ute before the alarm went off . . . day, Blue stayed home.
At work they gave him his own hard hat.
He got busy.
He chose his materials carefully. And at morning tea the builder unrolled some special plans.
The pile grew bigger and bigger.
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GRANDPA’S ADVENTURE TO THE MOON COMING AUGUST 2018
PAUL NEWMAN is an Irish-born author, illustrator and art teacher based in Sydney. He has worked in Dublin, London, Hong Kong and Sydney for a variety of clients in advertising, newspapers and magazines such as; Leo Burnett, The South China Morning Post and The Irish Independent. Most recently he has been an editorial illustrator for News Limited working on the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Australian and The Weekend Australian. He teaches Grandpa’s Big Adventure observational drawing at Enmore Design Centre. He is the recipient of three Stanley awards for Paul Newman and Tom Jellett (illus.) illustration. Grandpa’s Big Adventure is his first Pub date: August 2016 book for children. Format: 32pp – 260 x 225mm TOM JELLETT has been an editorial illustrator Rights held: World for News Limited, working on The Australian, Division: Australia – Penguin The Weekend Australian and The Daily Telegraph and his work has appeared in the South China Paul Newman and Tom Jellett take you on Morning Post, The Week and Medical Observer. a charming trip full of wild dangers and His picture book with Justine Clarke and Arthur extraordinary delights . . . and the joy of sharing a Baysting, The Gobbledygook is Eating a Book, tall tale. has been an Australian bestseller and his latest I’m afraid of the water . . . but Grandpa loves it, picture book with Penguin Random House and he’s teaching me to swim. Maybe if I can is Grandpa’s Big Adventure written by Paul swim, I’ll have adventures like him one day . . . Newman. In 2011, Tom was included in the editorial category for Illustrators 53, exhibited at the Society of Illustrators, New York.
Praise for Grandpa’s Big Adventure ‘Classic humour in this story of G’Pa (sp) teaching his grandson to swim. He boasts he swam around the world, met the Prince of Whales and even played cars with sharks!’ AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S WEEKLY
Besides, how can I ever have a really big adventure if I don’t know how to swim?
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But he didn’t like swimming on rainy days because he didn’t like to get wet.
He swam all day long.
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CLAIRE SAXBY writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry for children. She has nearly forty books in print with more in production. Her poetry appears in magazines, anthologies, on train walls and in museum resources. Claire has been writing for children for about 15 years. Before that, she was a podiatrist, and worked in community health. CONNAH BRECON is a British author-illustrator Wild Pa currently living in Melbourne, Australia, with Claire Saxby and Connah Brecon (illus.) his family. Connah has illustrated many picture books, including Frank! (Running Press) and Pub date: August 2016 There’s This Thing (Penguin Putnam). Format: 32pp – 250 x 240mm Rights held: World Praise for Wild Pa Division: Australia – Random House ‘This is an hilarious romp written in rhyme that leaps off the pages . . . Right from the front cover Come celebrate the adventurer lurking in every you know this will be a story of fun and frolics grandad, pop and pa. that will engage young readers from the get-go.’ My Pa is not a quiet Pa, THEBOTTOMSHELF.EDUBLOGS.ORG a sit-and-read-the-news Pa. My Pa is a Wild Pa – and Wild Pas are lots of fun.
is a wash-the-pile-of-dishes Pa, a clean-the-kitchen-benches Pa.
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Oh, Albert! DAVINA BELL completed a law degree before Davina Bell and Sara Acton (illus.) moving to Melbourne to take up the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT University. Pub date: August 2016 She worked at Penguin for six years as an Editor Format: 32pp – 248 x 248mm and Senior Editor in the Young Readers Division, Rights held: World where she was lucky enough to collaborate with Division: Australia – Penguin some of Australia’s most talented creators of books for children. Her first picture-book, The At its heart, this is the story of the strong bond Underwater Fancydress Parade, was published in of love that children share with animals, and the October 2014. unifying role that pets play in family life. Albert can’t help getting into mischief when no SARA ACTON is an award-winning author and one is around. But one day he goes too far . . . illustrator. Sara grew up in the Cotswolds in England and always loved drawing, especially Oh, Albert! people and other strange creatures. She studied A perfect story about a family and their not-so- BA Hons Fine Art and trained as an Art Teacher perfect (but loveable!) dog. in London. After teaching and practicing art in England and New Zealand Sara moved with her family to Australia.
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DAVID HILL is one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded authors for children and young people. His books have been published in eight countries and his short stories and plays for young people have been broadcast around the world. David was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004; he was awarded the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal in 2005 for his significant contribution to children’s literature; and with more than 40 published titles to his name he has won a variety of major national and international awards. Though perhaps best known for his junior fiction novels, David has also written acclaimed picture books, the most recent being First to the Top (Puffin, 2015). In March 2016 it was announced as a Storylines Notable Picture Book. PHOEBE MORRIS’ first picture book was Speed King published in 2015, a collaboration with veteran David Hill and Phoebe Morris (illus.) author David Hill on the acclaimed picture book/ biography of Sir Edmund Hillary, First to the Pub date: August 2016 Top. In a review for the NZ Listener, Ann Packer Format: 32pp – 250 x 240mm wrote, ‘Wellingtonian Phoebe Morris makes a Rights held: World stunning debut as an illustrator . . . From the Division: New Zealand – Penguin arresting cover, through cameos of his younger life to haunting, other-worldly mountainscapes, In 1967 an unknown, elderly New Zealander and his Morris’s style gives the old story a cool new edge.’ ancient Indian motorcycle set a world land-speed record at Bonneville. The man was Burt Munro, Praise for Speed King and he became a Kiwi legend. How did he do it? His amazing true story is now a stunning picture book. ‘David Hill has taken the story of the speed king and his famous Indian motorbike and written it so A crowd of people stand on a flat white plain. In the next generation can see what an extraordinary the distance, a snarling, roaring dark speck is man he was . . . Great illustrations by Phoebe hurtling towards them. ‘Go, Burt!’ The red bike Morris finish off a wonderful book that will help blurs past. Fingers click stop-watches. keep this amazing legend alive for years to come.’ The moment young Burt Munro saw a motorbike WHANGAREI REPORT chugging down a quiet Invercargill street, he ‘Hill keeps his prose simple, straightforward and was hooked. More than fifty years later, he and punchy – perfect for younger readers who might his ancient Indian motorcycle would amaze the be turned off by too much technical detail – but world by setting a land-speed record – one that still manages to capture Munro’s singular vision.’ remains unbroken to this day. CANVAS Burt didn’t have much money. He wasn’t young. But he was determined. And he became a Kiwi legend. A wonderful true story about a very unlikely champion by an award-winning author and illustrator.
Jaws dropped as it flew past the distance posts. Old man and old bike had reached 200 miles per hour! Burt closed the throttle, and the Indian drifted to a stop. Now for the return run. There was hardly any rubber left on the tyres. Would they last? Off again, flashing along the course. Burt hunched over his machine, wind tearing at him. Past the measuring posts he roared.
And so, in 1956, Burt went to the USA — to the Bonneville Salt Flats where world speed records were set. The salt made a hard surface, perfect for going fast. But if bike tyres broke through it, it could also be dangerous. On glittering white flats stretching away to distant blue mountains, Burt watched other riders. They lay face-down along their bikes. Some wore only swimming togs, helmet and shoes, to reduce wind drag.
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175 20.5 175 ANH SOMMERVILLE HANNAH & RITCHIE KATE ‘Straight from the heart… The perfect KATE RITCHIE gift for a new or expecting parent’ This Charming Mum
When you were still a treasured bump, tucked safe away inside, I thought about you night and day and in my sleep – it’s true.
My heart was full of hope and love. 175 I just couldn’t wait to meet you!
KATE RITCHIE is an award-winning actor, presenter and author. Millions of people grew up Photograph Kate Ritchie © Marie Ramos Photography watching Kate in Home and Away, and now listen to her co-hosting Kate, Tim & Marty, the hugely Photograph Hanna Sommerville © Jenna Lateo popular Nova national drive radio show. Trimmed: (175H × 370.5W) Untrimmed: (185H 380.5W) mm Trimmed:
HANNAH SOMMERVILLE is a talented illustrator www.penguin.com.au from the South Coast of New South Wales. She enjoys capturing familiar events in the lives of children and crafting moments to which readers can connect.
Illustrated by Hannah Sommerville
Black + Yellow + Magenta + Cyan + Lamination (Gloss)
I Just Couldn’t Wait to Meet You KATE RITCHIE is an award-winning actor, Kate Ritchie and Hannah Sommerville presenter and author. Millions of people all over the world grew up with Kate as she played (illus.) Sally Fletcher in the hit series Home and Away. Pub date: August 2017 She currently co-hosts Kate, Tim & Marty, the Original picture book pub date: April 2016 number one rating national drive radio show, on Format: 32pp – 175 x 175mm (boardbook) Nova. Acting aside, Kate donates her time to a Rights held: Translation number of causes, including the Australian Red Division: Australia – Random House Cross and Ovarian Cancer Australia. A gift board book edition of much-loved actor HANNAH SOMMERVILLE comes from the and radio host Kate Ritchie scenic South Coast of New South Wales. After completing a Bachelor of Creative Arts, she When you were still a treasured bump, tucked practised as a commercial designer before safe away inside, I thought about you night and becoming a mother of two. Reading with her day and in my sleep – it’s true. My heart was full young children rekindled Hannah’s adoration of hope and love. I just couldn’t wait to meet you. of children’s picture books and she turned her A heartwarming story to share with the children attention to illustrating. in your family.
I dreamt of how you’d look and feel –
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Spine = 15.5mm OVTW 160mm x 160mm One Very How hard can it be to find e Very a little bit of peace and quiet? On A delightful counting book featuring some very cheeky Australian animals. T o i W m r d b e e a d ir t
W T o m b a t RENÉE TREML RENÉE For et.
A Random House book search engines or retailers, in any form or by any means, Published by Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd electronic or mechanical, including photocopying Level 3, 100 Pacific Highway, North Sydney NSW 2060 (except under the statutory exceptions provisions of the www.penguin.com.au Australian Copyright Act 1968), recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system First published by Random House Australia in 2012 without the prior written permission of Penguin penguin.com.au This edition published by Random House Australia in 2017 Random House Australia. ISBN 978-0-14-378056-4
Copyright © Renée Treml 2012 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in- Publication data available The moral right of the author has been asserted. Cover and internal design by Ingrid Kwong All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced and Marina Messiha © Penguin Random House Australia or transmitted by any person or entity, including internet Printed and bound in China by RR Donnelley RENÉE TREML
JUNE 2017
One Very Tired Wombat Renée Treml
Pub date: September 2017 Original picture book pub date: September 2012 Format: 24pp – 160 x 160mm (boardbook) Rights held: World Division: Australia – Random House
Wombat is big and puggle is small – watch them play and have a ball. Join in the mischief as a little wombat and an SEPTEMBER 2016 echidna puggle play with opposites and word pairs. This beautiful new board book by Renée Treml features her trademark gentle, playful rhymes and stunning illustrations of Australian animals. RENÉE TREML was inspired by Australia’s wildlife and native birds after moving from the USA to Australia in 2007. Renée loves to create artworks that highlight the subtle details of nature with delicacy and humour. Renée creates limited edition prints for design markets and online retailers and her work is becoming well known in the Australian art and design world. AUGUST 2015
Ah . . . Choo!!!
Ahhh . . .
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KELLY WILSON is a sought-after designer and equestrian photographer and now the author of three biographical books about her and her sisters’ work with horses: For the Love of Horses Ranger the Kaimanawa Stallion (2014), Stallion Challenges (2015) and Mustang Ride (2016). Kelly Wilson and Jenny Cooper (illus.) JENNY COOPER has illustrated countless Pub date: October 2016 children’s picture books and has won a number Format: 32pp – 240 x 285mm of awards. Her most recent bestselling Penguin Rights held: World Random House titles are A Treasury of NZ Poems Division: New Zealand – Penguin for Children edited by Paula Green (2014) and Gladys Goes to War written by Glyn Harper (2016). Kelly Wilson’s heartwarming picture book about a stallion rescued from the 2012 Kaimanawa muster, Praise for Ranger the Kaimanawa Stallion and his real-life journey from wild horse to show ‘For the young child who dreams of nothing horse, illustrated by Jenny Cooper. but ponies this is a delightful picture book Ranger is a wild horse living in the rolling story by Kelly Wilson, one of the famous Wilson Kaimanawa Ranges of New Zealand. The lead sisters from the Kaimanawa Stallion Challenge.’ stallion of a large herd, he protects his mares GISBORNE HERALD and foals from danger and takes them to safe ‘A touching and emotional read which the places to graze among the tussock. illustrations express exquisitely.’ SWINGS AND One wintery day, Ranger hears the sound of a ROUNDABOUTS helicopter approaching. The Kaimanawa horses don’t trust humans and Ranger has always kept Sales Points his herd well away from them. He rounds up the • The Wilson sisters’ Facebook page Keeping others to flee, but after hours of being mustered Up with the Kaimanawas has more than by the helicopter, he finds himself locked in a 25,000 followers and a TVNZ series that pen with over a hundred frightened horses. screened in 2015 tracing the sisters’ ups and downs with 10 horses from the 2014 muster This will be his very last day in the wild. was a hit. But it’s also the first day of a completely new life • Beautiful watercolour illustrations by the – a life that Ranger at first finds frightening and multiple-award-winning Jenny Cooper, who confusing. But, with the gentle and patient care has a marvellous knack for characterising of the three sisters who have rescued him, it’s a animals in a way that’s always true to their life that Ranger will eventually grow to love. nature.
A huge sea of water! That night, Vicki, Kelly and Amanda came to give me carrots The sisters and their friends rode some of the Kaimanawa mares along the and a hug. I pressed in close and yawned, contented. So much beach, then took them swimming in the waves. I watched in amazement. had changed since my wild days, but I was enjoying my new life. The Wilson sisters, their Kaimanawas and their team of Kelly walked back up the beach towards me. I stepped sideways — I wasn’t showjumpers were my new family. sure I was ready for this. I felt very loved.
The other girls came alongside, this time on their showjumping horses. I felt braver with other horses close by. Kelly climbed across from one of the showjumpers and lowered herself onto my back.
This was the first time a person had ever sat on me. It wasn’t so bad, and by the time we walked down to the shore, I was used to her weight.
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PETER GOSSAGE is the storyteller and Maui and Other Maori Legends illustrator of more than twenty published Peter Gossage picture books, including myths such as How Maui Slowed the Sun, Battle of the Mountains Pub date: October 2016 and Pania of the Reef. Format: 208pp – 210 x 297mm Rights held: World Sales Points Division: New Zealand – Penguin • The very first collection of Peter Gossage’s perennial bestsellers. Bringing together his A beautiful collection of artist Peter Gossage’s most popular tales, this treasury includes all beloved Maori myths, in one stunning volume. six of Gossage’s Maui stories, plus The Battle Peter Gossage’s memorable retellings of Maori of the Mountains and Pania of the Reef. oral myths have captivated the children of • Published from the mid-1970s, Gossage’s New Zealand for generations. Their dramatic work has stood the test of time and his and distinctive illustrations with minimal depictions of characters such as Maui are yet evocative language form a powerful now iconic and definitive. combination, and each has earned its place among the beloved classics of our literature. • Peter Gossage’s picture books have sold more than 65,000 copies in New Zealand over their lifetime.
One night he covered the window and door of their whare with cloaks and mats to block out early morning light. Taranga overslept and Maui saw her hurry out into the sunrise.
Maui fluttered into the branches of the puriri tree. He plucked a berry and dropped it on the man. The man looked up and Maui dropped another.
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Maui skilfully dodged the people’s stones, but when the man flung one he let it hit him on his feathered chest. He pitched from the tree and flopped at the man’s feet.
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A is for Aotearoa A is for Auckland, published in 2013, was Diane Newcombe and Melissa Anderson the result of DIANE NEWCOMBE’s first collaboration with Melissa Anderson Scott, Scott and they are delighted to follow it with A is for Pub date: December 2016 Aotearoa. Format: 48pp – 250 x 260mm MELISSA ANDERSON SCOTT has been Rights held: World exhibiting paintings and sculpture in New Division: New Zealand – Penguin Zealand and overseas since 1990.
Discover Aotearoa in this fun lift-the-flap New Zealand treasure hunt from A to Z. Join Girl and Bird on an adventure around New Zealand, and help them follow the clues for where they will go to next. From city to shore, north to south and east to west, you’ll see some familiar places, and discover some that are new to you. Our story starts with a bottle containing a secret message, washed up on a beach. The bottle begins a trail of clues, and children lift the flap to reveal the clue that takes them on an alphabet journey all over New Zealand. Included is a glossary with interesting facts about each location. A is for Aotearoa is a must-have for tourists, and for every New Zealand home.
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Laura Harris Publishing Director – Penguin Random House Young Readers Laura oversees the wonderful children’s lists at Penguin Random House Australia. Penguin and Random House Young Readers publish every book a child could ever want – at all stages of childhood from very young picture books, to the most sophisticated of Young Adult novels – and everything in between. Critically acclaimed and best-selling authors pepper the lists including Jeff Kinney, John Flanagan, Jacqueline Harvey, Morris Gleitzman and Mem Fox. Laura has edited and shaped many of the books on the list over her 18 years with the company including works by Mem Fox, Melina Marchetta, Sonya Hartnett, Morris Gleitzman, Aaron Blabey and Felice Arena, to name but a few. Laura has been a literary judge on many awards, both in Adult and Children’s areas, has lectured in Editing and Publishing and has had numerous reviews and articles published. And while often asked, she has checked with her doctor, who assures her she doesn’t have a novel in her.
Lisa Riley Publisher, Penguin Young Readers Lisa Riley has been a Puffin for 14 years and is currently a Publisher with the Penguin Young Readers Group. Previously she worked for ABC Books and at Walker Books in both Sydney and London. She publishes across the age range from books for babies, picture books, commercial junior fiction series through to standalone novels for middle and YA readers. She has worked with many established and debut children’s authors and illustrators – recent highlights include I’m a Dirty Dinosaur by Janeen Brian and Ann James, the Juliet Nearly a Vet series by Rebecca Johnson, the novelisation of the film Paper Planes and the brilliant YA debut, Yellow by Megan Jacobson.
Heather Curdie Commissioning Editor, Penguin Young Readers Heather Curdie is a Commissioning Editor for Penguin Young Readers. She works on a wide range of children’s books from picture books and middle fiction through to young adult. While with Penguin, she has been fortunate to edit such great writers and illustrators as Morris Gleitzman, Oliver Phommavanh, Robert Newton, Andrew Daddo, Jane Godwin, Anna Walker, Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner, Tohby Riddle and Aaron Blabey. She has nurtured successful new talent such as Lucy Estela, author of the CBCA shortlisted picture book, Suri’s Wall, and Kylie Fornasier, author of the YA novel, The Things I Didn’t Say.
Michelle Madden Commissioning Editor, Penguin Young Readers Michelle Madden is a Commissioning Editor for Penguin Young Readers. She works across all genres on books for early childhood through to novels for young adults. As an editor she has worked with some of Australia’s finest authors and illustrators, including Felice Arena, Graeme Base, Nick Earls, Mem Fox, Jane Tanner and Alison Lester, as well as on collaborations between book creators and sporting and media stars. She is very proud of her work with up-and-coming authors and illustrators, working on picture books that speak directly to children, illustrated books for young readers that create excitement about stories, as well as entertaining left-of-centre YA and middle fiction.
Amy Thomas Commissioning Editor, Penguin Young Readers Amy Thomas commissions and edits books for Penguin Young Readers. She has worked with some of the company’s best-selling authors, including Melina Marchetta, Alison Lester, Isobelle Carmody and many more. Her particular interest is young adult fiction – from fantasy through to contemporary – but she is always looking for beautiful writing that has the ability to move the reader: picture books that perfectly explore a child’s point of view and their sense of wonder at the world; middle fiction that creates a world and characters so convincing that the reader feels like they are transported to another place with people they know; and powerful YA novels with real emotional impact and writing that soars.
35 BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR 2017 PICTURE BOOK RIGHTS CATALOGUE Zoe Walton Publisher – Random House Young Readers Zoe Walton is a Publisher for Random House Young Readers. She is the publisher and editor of John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series, which has now sold eight million copies worldwide and has been on the New York Times bestseller charts for more than 60 weeks. She is proud to publish plenty of Australia’s best authors for children and teens, including Deborah Abela, Tristan Bancks, Emily Gale, Nikki Gemmell, John Larkin, Belinda Murrell, Colin Thompson and Dianne Wolfer. Zoe also likes to work with debut authors and has recently launched award-winning authors Nicole Hayes and Fleur Ferris. Zoe can’t decide what she loves more – speculative fiction or contemporary stories – so she’s keen to publish the best of both genres!
Holly Toohey Publisher: Brands and Partnerships – Penguin Random House Young Readers Holly Toohey is a Children’s Publisher at Penguin Random House Australia. She creates and acquires new series, both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular focus on brand partnerships and licensed product. She has the pleasure of working with wonderfully talented authors such as Jacqueline Harvey, R.A. Spratt and George Ivanoff, and is proud to have published two Australian books in James Patterson’s international bestselling Middle School series. Despite not being overly sporty, Holly has also found a bit of a niche in publishing sport-related books for children.
Kimberley Bennett Commissioning Editor – Random House Young Readers Kimberley Bennett commissions and edits illustrated books and non-fiction for Random House Young Readers. Her titles range from picture books, illustrated chapter books and colour gift books through to illustrated information books and biographies for children and young adults. Her list includes the Meet . . . series of history picture books, Wendy Harmer’s perpetually gorgeous Pearlie series, and picture books by authors such as Renée Treml, Kate Ritchie and Ronojoy Ghosh.
Debra Millar Publishing Director – Penguin Random House New Zealand Debra Millar is the Publishing Director of Penguin Random House New Zealand and oversees a broad range of children’s titles, ranging from award-winning picture books to junior fiction and young adult novels. Penguin Random House New Zealand also publishes a growing list of non-fiction titles for young readers. Debra is proud to publish some of New Zealand’s most celebrated children’s writers and illustrators, including Lynley Dodd, Maurice Gee, David Hill and Gavin Bishop, who have all been extensively published internationally.
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