Andersen Press SPRING 2020 Rights Guide • Picture Books What Will I Be? Frances Stickley & Lucy Fleming
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Andersen Press SPRING 2020 Rights Guide • Picture Books www.andersenpress.co.uk What Will I Be? Frances Stickley & Lucy Fleming What do you want to be when you grow up? A pirate or a dinosaur hunter, an engineer or a doctor? Through dressing up and imaginary play, there’s nothing these four friends can’t be. • Discover a world of possibilities through imagination and play. • Featuring diverse and relatable characters, children will recognise themselves and the games they play in the story. • A gorgeous bedtime ending as the friends each go home and dream of what they will be. • Frances Stickley is a former primary school teacher and winner of the Bloomsbury and National Literacy Trust Prize 2017. • Lucy Fleming’s stylish, lively illustrations artfully wind down to a sleepy bedtime ending. Publication date: July 2021 Extent: 32 pages Size: 280 x 220mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Download link: https://bit.ly/39CsSa7 Scissorella: The Paper Princess Clare Helen Welsh & Laura Barrett Lotte doesn’t believe in happy endings. She lives with her horrible, bossy sisters and her only friends are the paper puppets she makes by the light of the moon. But when an invitation to the Palace Spring Ball arrives on their doorstep, Lotte sees her chance to change her life for ever... • A beautiful retelling of the Cinderella story with a modern twist, inspired by the life and work of German film director and pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger. • Peer through the palace windows to see the ball with an incredible laser-cut double gatefold spread. • Clare Helen Welsh, formerly a primary school teacher, is an author with a real passion for storytelling. Her picture books are published worldwide. • Laura Barrett is an illustrator that specialises in stunning paper-cut style artwork, perfect for the story of the paper princess. Publication date: September 2021 Extent: 32 pages Size: 300 x 225mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Download link: https://bit.ly/2TyBj0G The Grumpy Hat Nicola Kent Annoyed by his little sister, Ravi breaks Ruby’s toy car, so he goes to bed angry and she goes to bed sad. When Ravi wakes up, there’s a bright red grumpy hat stuck on his head! And he can’t get rid of it, no matter how hard he tries... • Sometimes we can all wake up wearing a grumpy hat. Discover how to swap your grumpy hat for happy socks! • Explores how guilt can often presents as grumpiness in young children. • Although siblings can be the cause of our bad moods, they can just as often be the cure. • Nicola graduated from the prestigious Cambridge School of Art MA with a distinction and was Highly Commended in the Macmillan Prize for Illustration. She has won the Independent Booksellers’ Best New Illustrator Award, and was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019. Publication date: September 2021 Extent: 32 pages Size: 260 x 250mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Download link: https://bit.ly/2IyKZlq Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry Michelle Robinson & Jez Tuya Join Red Lorry and Yellow Lorry on their very busy day! They must get to the construction site, but they have a snow-drift, a breakdown and a speeding tractor to contend with along the way... Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry: which one would you drive? • Bursting with colourful trucks, buses, helicopters, and so many more things that go! • Encourages spotting and naming all the vehicles, and includes a perfect bedtime ending to get your little ones ready to sleep. • Michelle Robinson is an award- winning children’s author, whose books have won the Laugh Out Loud Book Award and the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Prize. • Jez Tuya is a New Zealand-based illustrator and character designer for books and TV. His books have been published worldwide. Publication date: September 2021 Extent: 32 pages Size: 250 x 260mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Download link: https://bit.ly/39Bm78J The Day Fin Flooded the World Adam Stower Fin is extremely forgetful – he wears slippers to school and comes home without his trousers. So it’s no surprise when he leaves the tap running... until it floods the world! Who will be outraged, and who will be overjoyed? • Learn what forgetfulness can cost in this zany, underwater adventure. • Watery cover features clever gloss • Adam Stower is an award-winning author and illustrator of both picture books and older fiction. His books have been longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and won the Red House Children’s Book Award. Publication date: July 2021 Extent: 40 pages Size: 260 x 250mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Download link: https://bit.ly/2Q1cCrp Peep! Meg McLaren Dot isn’t like the other dogs: she doesn’t like going out for walks, and she doesn’t like going to the park. Her favourite thing is staying at home with her favourite toy and best friend, Peep. But when Peep goes missing under the garden fence, Dot might have to venture out into the world... • Introvert Dot learns that leaving her safe-space and making friends can be fun, in this uplifting story about living with anxiety. • Shy children will identify with Dot and her love of routine and the familiar. • Meg McLaren is a printmaker and illustrator who learned her craft on the MA in Children’s Book Illustration Publication date: August 2021 at the Cambridge School of Art. Extent: 32 pages Her books have won the Scottish Size: 260 x 250mm Book Trust’s Bookbug Picture Book Rights available: All rights Prize and been shortlisted for the UK RRP: £12.99 Waterstones Children’s Book Award. Download link: https://bit.ly/3aJlOJc A Tale of Two Dragons Geraldine McCaughrean & Peter Malone The kingdoms of Arbor with its lush forests, and Pomosa rich with farmland, have no love between them, and the children have taken to sneaking across the borders to thieve. If only they would share their produce. But the Kings decide to fight, instead... with dragons. But what kind of future will that bring? • A timely story about difference and understanding, in a classical style. • Fine storytelling compellingly proves that fighting is not the way to find peace and prosperity. • Geraldine McCaughrean is published in 61 countries. She is a three-time winner of the Whitbread/Costa Children’s Book Award, the Michael L. Printz Award and the Carnegie Medal twice. • Peter Malone’s children’s books have been published all around the world, and frequently exhibits at the AOI and SOI, gaining two bronze awards and certificates of merit. Publication date: September 2021 Extent: 32 pages Size: 280 x 240mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Download link: https://bit.ly/3aEbZMs Will You Be My Friend? Russell Ayto Bush Baby is so lonely – nobody wants to be her friend. Giraffe thinks she’s too small. She’s not pink enough for Flamingo. They just can’t they see past how she looks. Lion, however, thinks she is just right to be his friend. And he’d never be so rude as to eat a friend. Is Bush Baby very brave, very foolish, or just very, very lonely? • A timely story about difference and • Sometimes it’s hard to make friends, understanding, in a classical style. even if you’re a really cute bushbaby... • Fine storytelling compellingly Open your heart and your mind, proves that fighting is not the way and get ready to laugh out loud! to find peace and prosperity. • Sparkling with humour, Russell • Geraldine McCaughrean is published in Ayto’s comic genius shines right 61 countries. She is a three-time winner through to the surprise ending. of the Whitbread/Costa Children’s Book • Russell has won the Roald Dahl Funny Award, the Michael L. Printz Award Prize, the Booktrust Early Years Award and the Carnegie Medal twice. and the Nestle Children’s Book Prize Gold • Peter Malone’s children’s books Award, and has twice been shortlisted have been published all around the for the Kate Greenaway Medal. world, and frequently exhibits at the Publication date: August 2021 AOI and SOI, gaining two bronze Extent: 32 pages awards and certificates of merit. Size: 240 x 240mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Download link: https://bit.ly/2W04LOG Meet Uncle Marvello and Auntie Shazam: magicians extraordinaires... they can even make your watch disappear! And Cousin Charlie, who cooks up a feast... then eats it all himself. From uncles and cousins to babies and elderly aunts, everyone in this family is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud! • Quintessential John Yeoman and Quentin Blake, in this quirky, comic picture book. • John Yeoman and Quentin Blake have been collaborating since 1960. • The UK’s most revered illustrator, legend Quentin Blake has won many awards over his long career, including the Whitbread Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award, International Bologna Ragazzi Prize and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. Publication date: February 2021 Extent: 48 pages Size: 280 x 220mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Download link: https://bit.ly/3aH7zoc Cows Go Boo! Steve Webb & Fred Blunt On Farmer George’s farm, the pigs go ‘oink’, the sheep go ‘baa’, and cows go… wait, where did all the cows go? These cheeky cows have taken to sneaking up on Farmer George and shouting ‘BOO!’ Luckily, George knows just how to put his impolite herd to good use. • Laugh out loud as the cows cause havoc on the farm! • Steve Webb’s hilarious text is simple, funny and repetitive: perfect to read aloud with young children.