Andersen Press AUTUMN 2019 Rights Guide • Picture Books www.andersenpress.co.uk The Worrying Worries Who Makes a Forest? Rachel Rooney / Zehra Hicks Sally Nicholls / Carolina Rabei

What happens when you get a Worry? They can follow you around everywhere, and they are Who makes a forest? A wizard, a giant, an emperor? Come on a walk with Grandpa to HUNGRY. They feed on your fears and put sad thoughts in your head until they’ve grown so discover how a forest is made, and see how a thousand tiny things can come together to big, it can be hard to get anything done! Luckily, the Worry Doctor knows exactly what to do. change the face of the earth. When the walk is over, learn all about the different forests • Worries are given physical form in this that grow on our beautiful planet – and what we can do to save them. humorous and insightful picture book • Includes a 5 page non-fiction section that helps even the youngest child find on forests around the world, and the ways to cope with day-to-day anxieties. impact of deforestation on our planet. • Rachel Rooney’s books have won • Features a wonderful grandfather/ the CLPE Poetry Award, and been grandchild relationship with the narrative long listed for the Carnegie Medal. centred around a walk in the woods. • Zehra Hicks is an award-winning • Sally Nicholls, winner of the Waterstones author and illustrator who studied Children’s Book Prize, has been shortlisted Fine Art at Northumbria University for the Guardian Children’s Fiction and Theatre Design in Holland. Prize, the Costa Children’s Book Award,

Publication date: April 2021 and the Carnegie Medal, twice. Extent: 32 pages • Carolina Rabei’s books have Size: 260 x 250mm been nominated for the Kate Rights available: All rights Greenaway Medal, and shortlisted UK RRP: £12.99 for the Read It Again! award. Publication date: October 2020 Extent: 32 pages Size: 280 x 240mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99

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Rights sold: Afrikaans, Australia, Chinese (Complex & Simplified), Danish, Dutch, Estonian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil & Portugal), Romanian, Turkish, US Grandad’s Camper Papa Penguin Harry Woodgate Lindsay Camp / Momoko Abe Grandad's camper van is hidden away in the garage – now Gramps isn't around any more, Luckily for Sam, Dad's home just in time for a bedtime story. But tonight there’ll be the adventures they shared travelling in it just wouldn’t be the same. As she listens to his no aliens or super heroes, instead he’ll tell the tale of Papa Penguin, who loves his wonderful stories, Grandad’s granddaughter has an idea to cheer him up... beautiful boy-chick very much, even when he’s not always around.

• A charming story that celebrates • Celebrating amazing dads love in all its forms. and the wonderful world • Discover a wonderful grandfather- of penguin parenting. granddaughter relationship, as the • Includes a penguin non- little girl hatches the perfect plan to fiction section that shows get Grandad adventuring again. how incredible emperor • A subtle story of love, loss and a life well penguin parents really are! lived runs through this touching tale. • Lindsay Camp has been writing • Harry Woodgate is an outstanding books for young children new talent who was shortlisted for for over 20 years, and has the V&A Illustration Awards 2019 and collaborated with esteemed the Folio Society Book Illustration illustrators such as Tony Ross. Competition 2018 & 2019. • Momoko Abe was born in Japan, and studied filmmaking before turning her hand to Publication date: May 2021 picture book illustration. Extent: 32 pages Size: 280 x 240mm Publication date: May 2021 Rights available: All rights Extent: 32 pages UK RRP: £12.99 Size: 250 x 250mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Fergal Meet Fern Old Macdonald Had a Phone Robert Starling Jeanne Willis / Tony Ross When Fergal’s mum and dad bring home an Old Macdonald loves his phone – it helps him organise his farm... and do a bit of online egg, his life will never be the same again. After shopping. But when the animals all get a phone of their own, they just can’t seem to put them his little sister hatches, Fergal feels jealous, angry down and no work gets done! A hilarious cautionary tale for a new generation of phone users and worried sometimes, but believing those from the prize-winning partnership of Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross. feelings are wrong, he hides them. Luckily, Dad is around to help Fergal deal with his feelings • Aimed at educating the very and discover he’s a great big brother. youngest phone users in the dangers of being addicted • In his third book, Fergal discovers that to your phone screen. feelings aren’t ‘good’ or ‘bad’, but they • This is the fourth in a series of can get out of control if you ignore them. cautionary tales for the new • Highlights the importance of generation of young internet processing negative emotions. users, following Chicken Clicking, • The Fergal series has sold in Troll Stinks and #Goldilocks (A 21 territories worldwide. Hashtag Cautionary Tale). • Robert Starling’s debut, Fergal • Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross have is Fuming, was shortlisted for the been collaborating on award-winning Waterstones Children’s Book Award. picture books for over 30 years. Publication date: September 2020 Extent: 32 pages Publication date: February 2021 Size: 260 x 250mm Extent: 32 pages Rights available: All rights Size: 230 x 270mm UK RRP: £12.99 Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99

The Little Island Smriti Prasadam-Halls / Robert Starling

The animals on the farm all work and live together. They don’t always agree, but animals rarely do. The geese are certain that life used to be better so they cut themselves off. Will life be perfect now they are separated from the rest of the farm? • A true fable of our time that ends with a seed of hope for the future. ALSO IN THE SERIES, NOW SOLD IN 7 TERRITORIES WORLDWIDE: • “Animal Farm for our times” Axel Scheffler • Smriti Prasadam-Halls is an Indian- born author of many picture books for children that have been translated into 25 languages worldwide.

Publication date: June 2020 Extent: 32 pages Size: 260 x 250mm Rights sold: Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Romanian, Slovenian UK RRP: £12.99 Dreams for our Daughters Hom Ruth Doyle / Ashling Lindsay Jeanne Willis / Paddy Donnelly

A star-scattered night, a brand new baby girl, Hom is the last of his kind. I don’t know what kind of and all the potential in the world… This is a poetic creature he is, and nobody knows he exists... apart from me. introduction to what it means to grow up as a girl When a boy washes up on a desert island, he is sure he’s on his own in the world. But there’s in the challenging times we live in, and all of the someone else living there: Hom, a peace-loving creature who has lost his family, too. Alone dazzling possibilities the world has to offer. on the island together, they learn from each other and become the best of friends. So when a rescue ship appears on the horizon, the boy has a big decision to make... • A lavish cover glittering with green foil makes this the perfect gift for • A beautiful tale of two unlikely the milestone moments in a child’s friends thrown together by life, from birth to graduation. circumstances and a shared loss. • Ruth Doyle is a nurse, social worker • Discover that the best of and micro-farmer turned picture friendships can cross language book writer with a unique voice. and cultural barriers, and that • Ashling Lindsay’s debut picture book, your friends can be just as was shortlisted for the Waterstones important as your family. Children’s Book Prize and the Klaus • Jeanne Willis is an award- Flugge Prize for illustration, and longlisted winning and much-loved for the Kate Greenaway award. children’s author, whose books have won the Silver Medal Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Children’s Book Award and the Red House Children’s Book Publication date: October 2020 Extent: 32 pages Award, among many others. Size: 300 x 225mm • Paddy Donnelly is an Irish Rights sold: US illustrator based in Belgium, UK RRP: £12.99 Publication date: March 2021 Extent: 32 pages who was nominated for the Size: 230 x 270mm World Illustration Awards 2018. Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 COMPANION BOOK SONGS FOR OUR SONS:

ARTWORK FROM SONGS FOR OUR SONS Duck and Penguin Do Not Like Sleepovers Vampire Peter Julia Woolf Ben Manley / Hannah Peck Best friends Betty and Maud are having a sleepover in a tiny tent in the garden, and they just Everyone says Peter is the baddest boy in school. He likes strange food, wears strange clothes know their long-suffering toys Duck and Penguin are going to love it, too. But when the girls and does strange things. In fact, Peter is a vampire. So when the class gerbil goes missing, Lucy abandon the tent, they leave Duck and Penguin behind and there’s something lurking outside lets Peter take the blame, even though she knows it wasn’t anything to do with him... in the dark.... • Friendship and celebrating difference • The second in the Duck and Penguin is at the heart of this tale in which series sees the old rivals put their Lucy must decide whether to do the differences aside to find a way to right thing or the easiest thing. safety by sticking together. • The perfect story to get you in • Julia Woolf worked for 20 years in the mood for Halloween. animation, including for Dreamworks • Ben Manley is a picture book author, US. She graduated with an MA in creator of interactive ebooks and Children’s Book Illustration in 2015. website designer living in Norwich, UK. • Hannah Peck is an illustrator FIRST IN THE SERIES: based in Brighton, UK.

Publication date: September 2020 Extent: 32 pages Size: 280 x 240mm Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 Publication date: August 2020 Extent: 32 pages Size: 240 x 240mm Rights sold: Denmark, Nether- lands, France, Italy, Korea, US Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 The Story Thief Puss and Cat Graham Carter Margaret Sturton Olive is a shy girl who prefers reading about adventures to having them herself. But when a Cat likes to work in the garden digging, planting seeds and growing vegetables. Puss doesn’t mysterious figure steals all of the books in town, Olive decides to set out on an adventure of appear to see the point in all that hard work, she likes to be in the house sitting around drinking her own. The thief, meanwhile, doesn’t quite know what to do with the stories he’s stolen. Olive tea and having fun. But Puss really likes to eat delicious food, so when Cat makes a feast with must track him down and teach him the joys of reading – and sharing – stories. the garden produce, Puss wants to share…

• Discover the magic of reading in this • An early lesson in hard work and reward. beautifully illustrated adventure with • Discover that hard work is fun the joy of sharing stories at its heart. when friends pull together. • The intricate silvery-purple foiling detail • Spot Puss in the background, watching on the cover is truly irresistible. Cat’s every move with interest... • The perfect story to inspire little • Exciting new talent Margaret ones to learn to read. Sturton’s second picture book. • Graham Carter is a printmaker with a • Margaret has a BA and MA in huge following who is now stepping Fine Art Sculpture, and an MA in into the world of picture books. Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art.

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Publication date: February 2021 Publication date: April 2021 Extent: 32 pages Extent: 32 pages Size: 260 x 250mm Size: 270 x 230mm Rights available: All rights Rights available: All rights UK RRP: £12.99 UK RRP: £12.99 The Huffalots Mouse in the House Eve Coy Russell Ayto Huffalot noun a person who huffs a lot, from huff verb to express annoyance. Mr and Mrs Homeowner have a mouse in their house, and they want it removed. Mr Bosh – big When Mum wakes up her Huffalots, nothing is right – they don’t like their clothes, their breakfast chief mouse-catcher, and Mr Bumble – assistant mouse-catcher (wearing shoes that squeak is yucky and they just don’t like each other. With a bit of kindness and a hug and they magically like a mouse) arrive on the scene. They try all the classic methods: setting a trap, bringing in a transform into Lovealots. But it’s been a long day and Mum is now grumpy and tired. Good (big!) cat, inviting an elephant round... but the mouse is always one step ahead. thing the Lovealots know exactly what to do... • A farce worthy of Laurel and • Features a wind-down, heartfelt Hardy or Tom and Jerry! ending perfect for bedtime. • Russell Ayto’s comic genius shines • Eve Coy has been longlisted for with each failed attempt to the Klaus Flugge Prize for her debut catch a sharp-witted mouse. picture book: Looking After Daddy. • Russell has won the Roald Dahl • Eve has worked as a storyboard artist Funny Prize, the Booktrust Early Years for Aardman animation (Wallace Award and the Nestle Children’s and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep). Book Prize Gold Award, and has twice been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Publication date: April 2020 Publication date: February 2020 Extent: 32 pages Extent: 32 pages Size: 250 x 260mm Size: 240 x 240mm Rights sold: Chinese Complex, French Rights sold: Dutch UK RRP: £12.99 UK RRP: £12.99

Luna Loves Art The Spots and the Dots Joseph Coelho / Fiona Lumbers Helen Baugh / Marion Deuchars At the gallery, Luna is transfixed by the famous art, but her classmate Finn doesn’t seem to be The Spots live on one side of the hill. The Dots live on the other. Both are fearful and suspicious paying attention. When they see a sculpture of a family group, Finn says he thinks families don’t of the other, but are they really all that different? When a young Spot and a young Dot meet at look like that. But what does a family look like? the top of the hill, they are about to find out... • In this follow-up to Luna Loves Library • Flip the book upside Day, we meet Luna’s mum, and learn Back cover down and choose that not all families are the same. whether to read from the • Spot famous art from around the world! perspective of the Spots • A spectacular moment with silver or the Dots, right up until foil where Luna and her classmates the middle spread, where experience immersive art. the two worlds collide. • Joseph Coelho won the CLPE • Marion Deuchars is an Children’s Poetry Award with his first award-winning illustrator collection Werewolf Club Rules. and author who has been • Fiona Lumbers brings well-known longlisted for the Kate artwork to life in her own style, in a Greenaway Medal 2019. perfect first introduction to fine art.

Publication date: September 2020 Publication date: October 2020 Extent: 32 pages Extent: 32 pages Size: 280 x 240mm Size: 280 x 220mm Rights sold: Romania, Spain, US Rights sold: Portugal UK RRP: £12.99 UK RRP: £12.99 Bricks: The House a Greedy Pig Built Where Happiness Begins Katie Cotton / Tor Freeman Eva Eland Do you know what happiness looks like? Sometimes it can be hard to find, and sometimes you When Pig asks Dog, Cat and Chicken to build him a house, he slyly promises more money than might have so much you can’t help but share. You can try to chase it, control it or capture it, he plans to pay. ‘Fair is fair!’ Pig says when the work is finished. Convinced he’s the cleverest pig but even if it seems like it’s gone for a while, there is always a way to find it again. in town, he settles down to a peaceful first night in his dream house, but Dog, Cat and Chicken have other plans... Fair is fair! • Discover happiness in Eva Eland’s second picture book about emotions. • This tale of greed and consequences • Eva shares a true wisdom that features a hilariously satisfying ending. will help children and adults alike • Pig pays six coins but the workers expect better understand big emotions. twelve, so for every two bricks in the • The first in the series, When house, the workers take one back! An Sadness Comes to Call, has early introduction to simple maths. already sold in 19 territories. • Katie Cotton is an author and editor whose children’s books have been published all over the world. ALSO IN THE SERIES: • Tor Freeman studied illustration in London Publication date: and then Connecticut on the Sendak March 2020 Fellowship, and was the winner of the Extent: 32 pages Size: 240 x 215mm Observer/Cape/Comica Prize 2017. Rights sold: Chinese Complex & Simplified, Publication date: June 2020 Danish, Dutch, French, Extent: 32 pages German, Italian Japa- nese, Polish, Portuguese Size: 290 x 220mm (Brazil and Portugal), Rights available: All rights Spanish, Turkish, US UK RRP: £12.99 UK RRP: £12.99 The Mouse’s Apples The Snow Woman Frances Stickley / Kristyna Litten David McKee Mouse is having a wonderful day: she’s found four plump apples, the most she’s ever had! When Rupert and Kate tell their parents they’re But here comes Bear, and he’s feeling especially greedy and mean. He wants every apple for going to make a snowman, Mum and Dad himself. Mouse might have to think up a clever trick to teach Bear a lesson… reply, “You mean a snowperson?” Originally • A stunning update on the traditional published over 30 years ago, this is a deceptively moral tale that is delightfully clever, a joy simple story that overthrows gender stereotypes to read, with captivating illustrations. in a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek way: David • Frances Stickley is a former primary school McKee at his funniest and best. teacher and winner of the Bloomsbury and National Literacy Trust Prize 2017. • David McKee is the creator of well-known • Kristyna Litten studied Illustration at characters including King Rollo, Mr Benn and Edinburgh College of Art before illustrating Elmer the Patchwork Elephant. His books children’s books. She was runner up in are enjoyed by children all over the world. the Macmillan Children’s Book Prize.

Publication date: July 2020 Publication date: October 2020 Extent: 32 pages Extent: 32 pages Size: 280 x 240mm Size: 275 x 240mm Rights sold: Chinese Simplified, Dutch, Korean UK RRP: £6.99 UK RRP: £12.99 TH TM

Elmer and the Lost Treasure Elmer’s Friendship Book Elmer, Wilbur and a brave troop of elephants set Create a keepsake to remember all your friends, out on a quest to find the famous Lost Treasure of with Elmer the patchwork elephant! Children the jungle. When they stumble across a beautiful will love to fill in the blanks with fun facts about forgotten palace, Elmer’s friends rush inside, themselves, their favourite things, their pictures keen to find the Lost Treasure, but Elmer appears and drawings, and much more. to have stopped searching...

Publication date: 2021 • David McKee delivers his customary humour Extent: 24 pages and wisdom in his twenty-eighth picture Size: 275 x 240mm UK RRP: £9.99 book featuring the patchwork elephant. • Uncover the incredible palace of the elephants, deep in the jungle. My First Elmer and Friends Publication date: September 2020 Best friends Elmer, Wilbur and Rose Extent: 32 pages each get their own mini shaped Size: 275 x 240mm Series sold: 50 languages board book in this adorable pack. UK RRP: £12.99 Each of their stories is retold for the very youngest of Elmer fans, in three gorgeous, chunky books Elmer Search and Find Colours that’ll look amazing on any shelf!. Publication date: 2021 Join Elmer and his friends in his second search and Extent: 30 pages find book! Each page matches one of Elmer’s Pack size: 115 x 360mm Individual book sizes: 115 x 120mm colours, with the last spread a glorious rainbow! UK RRP: £9.99 Jam-packed full of things to hunt, differences to spot, and a multitude of gorgeous details from Elmer’s world to discover. Elmer’s Secret: Felt Flap Book • Young Elmer fans can search through the animals while developing their visual acuity, A lift-the-flap book with a difference – the and their number and language skills. super-strong and tactile felt flaps are perfect for • This chunky, large board book will little grabbing hands. have matt varnished pages.

Publication date: May 2020 Extent: 22 pages Publication date: 2021 Size: 290 x 240mm Extent: 20 pages Series sold: 50 languages Size: 188 x 188mm UK RRP: £9.99 UK RRP: £6.99 Since founding Andersen Press in 1976, legendary publisher Klaus Flugge has brought us outstanding debuts including Angry Arthur by Satoshi Kitamura, Badger’s Parting Gifts by Susan Varley and Mr Underbed by Chris Riddell. He has now founded the annual Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting newcomer to UK picture book illustration.

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