Bologna Rights Guide 2019 CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT CONTENTS
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Bologna Rights Guide 2019 CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT CONTENTS PICTURE BOOKS MIDDLE GRADE & JUNIOR YOUNG ADULT GENERAL ENQUIRIES If you are interested in any of the titles in this Rights Guide or would like further information, please contact us: Elizabeth O’Donnell International Rights Manager HarperCollins Publishers (ANZ) t: +61 2 9952 5475 e: [email protected] HarperCollins Publishers Australia Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000 PO Box A565, Sydney South NSW 1235 AUSTRALIA PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Once upon a time, there were three little white rabbits who Sebastian trots off BUMBLE were... Superheroes of the Garden. When disaster strikes, fur SEBASTIAN at a slow steady speed BUNNIES: will fly! AND THE with a bundle of books THE POND Rights Held: World (excl. China) English; Translation – all SPECIAL he’d love someone to read languages GRAEME BASE STACK OF Where can you find the best spot to hear a story when you’re Graeme’s previous titles, including Animalia, The Eleventh STORIES the smallest and the slowest one in a big family? Sebastian AGES: 3+ Hour, The Waterhole and others, have been licensed in many knows. Brand-new series from territories and languages around the world. KELLY HIBBERT From talented newcomer Kelly Hibbert and award-winning the creator of the & SUE illustrator Sue deGennaro comes the perfect book that internationally acclaimed DEGENNARO celebrates the joy of reading and family. picture book, Animalia. AGES: 4+ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages October 2018 | 24pp 220x220mm | Hardback Storytime is always ISBN 9781460753941 special, but even more so when Mum is reading the stack of stories that Sebastian has collected. July 2018 | 32pp ALSO IN THE 224x218mm | Hardback ISBN 9781460753460 BUMBLEBUNNIES SERIES: THE HOLE If you were walking through the woods THE BUM This is a book for anyone who has a bum or knows someone and a hole you came upon, with a bum. It’s a celebration of my bum and your bum and BOOK the whole world’s bum. KERRY BROWN would you stop and take a look? & LUCIA From bestselling author Kate Mayes and award-winning Or simply carry on? KATE MAYES & MASCIULLO illustrator Andrew Joyner comes The Bum Book, the only One by one, a group of animals come upon a strange black ANDREW book about bums you’ll ever need. JOYNER AGES: 3+ hole in the middle of the woods. What is lurking down A hilarious picture book which celebrates bottoms of all below? And is that its tummy rumbling? Read on to find Bestselling Australian AGES: 2+ types, shapes and sizes! out… picture book creators Kerry Brown and Lucia A mysterious, thrilling and funny new adventure. The cheekiest book of the Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Masciullo join forces year! Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages to bring us a brilliant November 2017 | 32pp new rhyming adventure, 244x244mm | Hardback perfect for fans of The ISBN 9780733332197 Gruffalo. May 2018 | 32pp 297x210mm | Hardback ISBN 9780733335235 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS DID YOU For the Grown Ups: THE PIRATE Pirate Pete had to pee. As he sailed across the ocean… OK. Two things you need to know. The toilet is broken onboard Captain Bones’ ship and Pirate TAKE THE Firstly, your favourite thing in the whole world is the letter B. WHO HAD Pete needs to pee! B FROM MY And secondly, you’re about to sneeze and all the Bs are going to TO PEE It’s a race back to town across a vast amount of water. be blown out of the book. _OOK? TIM MILLER But with all the splashing, dripping and swirling, will Pete be So until you can get your favourite letter back, you’re about to & MATT able to hang on? BECK sound really, really silly... And the kids will love it! STANTON STANTON Beck Stanton is a mother, primary school teacher and the Tim Miller and Matt Stanton are the bestselling co-creators of the picture books There Is a Monster Under My Bed Who & MATT creative director/owner of mybabymoments.com.au. She has AGES: 2+ STANTON worked extensively with children throughout her teaching Farts, The Pirate Who Had To Pee, There Is a Monster Under career and in roles that include before-and-after school care November 2013 | 32pp My Christmas Tree Who Farts and Dinosaur Dump. 244x244mm | Hardback AGES: 4+ centre director, a nanny and youth and children’s worker. With his wife, primary school teacher Beck Stanton, Matt ISBN 9780733332944 From the brilliant brains Matt Stanton is the co-creator of the bestselling Fart Monster also publishes the critically acclaimed This Is a Balland Did behind This is a Ball comes picture book series and has sold more than 125,000 copies of his books. You Take the B from My _ook? a new giggle inducing They live by the beach in Sydney with their daughter Bonnie and son Boston. bestseller! Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed: UK (Harper 360), US (Harper 360), April 2016 | 32pp Rights Licensed in series: German (Klett Kinderbuch), US (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), Spanish (Ediciones Obelisco) 267x192mm | Hardback Slovenian (MIS), Dutch (Baeckens Books) ISBN 9780733334832 ALSO IN THERE IS A Ever wondered what could remove that smile from the Mona THE SERIES: Lisa’s face? MONSTER ON What could force the Buckingham Palace guards to run for MY HOLIDAY their lives? WHO FARTS What mighty gust of wind could finally make the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall? TIM MILLER & MATT STANTON All will be revealed in There is a Monster on my Holiday Who Farts... AGES: 2−5 For the Grown-Ups: Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages WAIT! The Fart Monster is back! ‘Wait! Just wait!’ And he’s gone global! Rights Licenced in series: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360) BECK & MATT You find yourself saying this all the time, right? Get your passports ready, STANTON we’re about to go around ALSO IN THE Well, we’re sorry to say, but you’re gonna hate this book! the world in 80 farts. SERIES: AGES: 4+ This book is going to make you wait too. Once you and the kids start reading it, you can’t do anything else until it’s finished. October 2016 | 32pp | New from the brilliant 244 x 244mm | Hardback | brains behind You’ll just have to … wait. ISBN 9780733334658 The Books That Drive Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Kids Crazy series. Rights Licensed (previous titles): UK and US (Little, Brown April 2018 | 32pp Books for Young Readers), German (Keltt Kinderbuch), Straight from the prehistoric era comes an ex-STINK-tion 265x192mm | Hardback Slovenian (MIS d.o.o.), Dutch (Baeckens Books) DINOSAUR story like no other! ISBN 9780733337970 DUMP Life’s hard when there’s only one toilet and all the dinos need TIM MILLER to go! There’s a dumping pterodactyl, a plopping stegosaurus & MATT and a T-rex who can’t reach to wipe... STANTON But when it’s finally Mike’s turn, could one tiny bowel movement end in disaster? AGES: 2+ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages October 2015 | 32pp | 244 x 244mm | Hardback | Rights Licenced: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360), ISBN 9780733334634 Canada (Harper360) PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Every night when dinner was done, Rollo would cry, “I don’t Ruby and her grandmother love to travel and now they are in I DON’T want to go to bed!’ RUBY RED London, the home of red buses, red telephone boxes and red letter boxes. WANT TO The sequel to the very funny picture book, I Don’t Want to SHOES GOES GO TO BED Eat My Dinner, just when Rollo’s parents think they’ve got TO LONDON No wonder Ruby’s red shoes feel especially at home in this the food thing sorted, Rollo announces he doesn’t want to go wonderful city! DAVID to bed... KATE KNAPP Illustrator and artist Kate Knapp graduated from the CORNISH From talented author-illustrator David (D.M.) Cornish, AGES: 4-8 Queensland College of Art in 1990 and started her comes the perfect bedtime story for sleep-deprived parents. business, Twigseeds, in the mid-1990s. Twigweeds is AGES: 3+ The third book in the famous for its delightful characters and Kate produces art The perfect book to David wrote and illustrated the very funny I Don’t Want best-selling Ruby Red prints, cards, stationery and books. help bring humour to to Eat My Dinner and I Don’t Want to Clean My Teeth and Shoes series. Emu’s Halloween what can often be a real illustrated by Anne Mangan. December 2016 | 48pp | 230 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages battleground. x 163mm | Hardback | ISBN Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed: Simplified Chinese (Love Reading Books), 9780732297626 September 2016 | 32pp | Korean (Goraebook Library), UK (Macmillan), Ukrainian 250 x 250mm | Hardback | (Vivat), US (Doubleday, PRH US), Spanish, Catalan ISBN 9781460750582 (Edelvives), Italian (HarperCollins Italia) I DON’T Every morning and every evening, Rollo would cry, ‘I don’t want to clean my teeth!’ WANT TO ALSO IN THE RUBY RED SHOES SERIES: Rollo’s family are on track with mealtimes and going to bed, CLEAN MY but now Rollo doesn’t want to clean his teeth... TEETH From talented author-illustrator David (D.M.) Cornish comes the perfect book for parents who might need to brush DAVID up on their children’s teeth cleaning. CORNISH Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages AGES: 3+ Rights Licensed (previous titles): David’s international best The final title about selling Monster Blood Tattoo series has been published in Rollo, who didn’t want many territories and languages around the world.