Usborne Publishing Ltd Translation Rights Guide Frankfurt 2017 83-83 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8RT. 0207 430 2800. [email protected]. www.usborne.com Contents Age 5-8 years TEACUP HOUSE by Hayley Scott THE TRAVELS OF ERMINE by Jennifer Gray FAIRY UNICORNS by Zanna Davidson BILLY AND THE MINI MONSTERS by Zanna Davidson TANGLEWOOD ANIMAL PARK by Tamsyn Murray Age 9-11 years KICK by Mitch Johnson COGHEART by Peter Bunzl S.C.R.E.A.M. by Andrew Beasley A PLACE CALLED PERFECT by Helena Duggan Age 12+ years THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF BEING HUMAN by Linni Ingemundsen INSTRUCTIONS FOR A SECOND-HAND HEART by Tamsyn Murray BROKEN SKY by L.A. Weatherly Backlist Highlights TEACUP HOUSE series Key points: By Hayley Scott • Child-friendly, charming and classic – qualities central to the Usborne ethos • Sylvanian Families meets Toy Story Meet the Twitches, a family of rabbits who live in a house shaped like a teacup, and Stevie, the little girl who looks after them. • Up-and-coming illustrator, Pippa Curnick Synopsis Book One – Meet the Twitches: Stevie doesn’t want to the move to the country - she loves her family’s flat in the city, her school and her friends. However, a gift from her grandma helps to take her mind off the move: a beautiful big teacup with a house inside! There is a giant saucer that serves as a garden, lots of little pieces of furniture, and a family of four toy rabbits called the Twitches to live inside. What Stevie doesn’t realise is that, when humans aren’t around, the Twitches have adventures of their own - especially when one of them is dropped in the big garden of Stevie’s new home. Rights available: World all languages inc. US Author biography: Large Print, Educational Hayley Scott grew up near Watership Down, UK publication dates: where one of her favourite things to do was visit the big hill to watch the rabbits hopping Books 1 – February 2018 in and out of their burrows. When she was Books 2 – June 2018 little she used to make tiny furniture for fairy Books 3 – October 2018 houses, setting them out in scooped out Extent: 128pp hollows in her back garden. To this day she’s Readership: UK age 5+ sure the fairies used them... Material available: Hayley lives in Norfolk with her daughter. Final layout for book one Teacup House is her debut series for young readers. THE TRAVELS OF ERMINE series Key points: By Jennifer Gray • A brand-new series from the author of Atticus Claw and Guinea Pigs Online Meet Ermine: a small stoat on a BIG world adventure. Filled with • A new take on ever-popular animal Paddington trouble and fun! adventures, in the tradition of , Squishy McFluff and Claude Synopsis Book One – Trouble in New York!: • Gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Elisa Paganelli Ermine is on a world tour and determined to fill her scrapbook with tales of adventure. Armed with her toolkit and feathered hat, Ermine arrives in New York to stay with Michael Megabucks and his son – and is soon fighting off alligators at Central Park Zoo and outwitting bungling diamond thieves! The first in a brand-new series in the best traditions of Paddington and Squishy McFluff, Ermine’s travels are full to the brim with adventure, derring-do and a whole host of fabulous characters. Rights available: World all languages inc. US Large Print, Educational Rights sold: Audio Author biography: UK publication dates: Jennifer Gray lives in London and Scotland Book 1 – January 2018 with her husband, four children and friendly Book 2 – 2018 but enigmatic cat, Henry. She has written the Extent: 160pp Atticus Claw series, the Chicken Mission series and the Guinea Pigs Online series, co-written Readership: UK age 6+ with Amanda Swift. The first book in the Atticus series, Atticus Claw Breaks the Law, was Material available: shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Manuscript for book one Prize and won the Red House Children’s Book Award - Younger Readers Category. FAIRY UNICORNS series Key points: • Irresistible combination of ever-popular By Zanna Davidson unicorns, fairies and a magical secret world • With stylish, two-colour illustrations by Original stories, full of magic and adventure, about a secret world of Nuno Alexandre Vieira fairy unicorns and a little girl called Zoe. • Highly collectable series of six books set in the same magical world as the hugely Synopsis Book One – Magic Forest: popular Fairy Ponies series Zoe is staying with her great-aunt when she discovers a magical world full of fairy unicorns. But Zoe soon finds out that Unicorn Island is in terrible danger. The trees are dying! Can Zoe and her new friend Astra, a beautiful fairy unicorn with silver stars on her coat, find the magical flower that will save the trees – and the island? Synopsis Book Two – Cloud Castle: Zoe and her friend Astra, the fairy unicorn, can’t wait for the Midsummer Festival on Unicorn Island. But the island is growing hotter by the minute and the flowers are all wilting… Has Shadow, the evil fairy unicorn, stolen Rights available: the clouds? World all languages inc. US Audio, Large Print, Educational, Film Rights sold: Danish, Hebrew, Lithuanian Author biography: UK publication dates: Zanna Davidson has written over 50 books for Books 1 & 2 – April 2017 children, including fiction and non-fiction titles. Books 3 & 4 – July 2017 She lives in the countryside with her two boys, Books 5 & 6 – November 2017 a bearded dragon and a tortoise. Extent: 112pp Readership: UK age 6+ Material available: Finished copies BILLY AND THE MINI MONSTERS series Key points: • Highly engaging and fabulous full-colour By Zanna Davidson illustrations by Melanie Williamson • Eye-catching comic strips at the end of each Billy’s amazed to discover there are five MINI MONSTERS living in his chapter sock drawer… • Introducing children to original, illustrated fiction with easy reading texts Synopsis Book One – Monsters in the Dark: • Collectable series of six books Billy is scared of the DARK. And to make things worse, there’s something scary going on in his room at night. Something that has a squeaky little voice. And likes eating cheese. AND school ties… But what could it be? Synopsis Book Two – Monsters on the Loose: Billy’s pet Mini Monsters have decided it would be fun to go to school. Billy thinks this is a TERRIBLE IDEA, but he doesn’t realize they’ve snuck into his school bag until it’s too late… Now there are monsters on the loose. There are monsters in the classroom and monsters in the playground. Will Billy ever be able to catch them again? Rights available: World all languages inc. US Audio, Large Print, Educational, Film Rights sold: Hebrew, Italian Author biography: UK publication dates: Zanna Davidson has written over 50 books Books 1 & 2 – May 2017 for children, including fiction and non-fiction Books 3 & 4 – August 2017 titles. She lives in the countryside with her Books 5 & 6 – November 2017 two boys, a bearded dragon and a tortoise. Extent: 80pp Readership: UK age 4+ Material available: Finished copies TANGLEWOOD ANIMAL PARK series Key points: • Hugely commercial, contemporary series for By Tamsyn Murray 7+ readers • Child-centered, aspirational animal Join Zoe for exciting and exotic animal adventures when her family adventures at the heart of every story move to Tanglewood Animal Park. • Animal Ark for a new generation Synopsis Book One – Baby Zebra Rescue: • Meticulously researched by the author at Paradise Wildlife Park, Hertfordshire Zoe’s dreams of becoming an animal-keeper look set to come true when her family take over the running of Tanglewood Animal Park! But Oliver, • Third title in the series, Elephant Emergency, the park vet’s son, is used to having Tanglewood to himself, and he’s coming in summer 2017 not happy to be sharing it. Then disaster strikes when the park’s newest arrival, baby zebra, Flash, escapes from his paddock just before the park’s grand reopening. Can Oliver and Zoe join forces and rescue the missing Reviews: baby zebra so Tanglewood can open in time? “Readers will love imagining themselves in Zoe’s Wild animal adventures await inside the gates of Tanglewood in this shoes and the book is full of tips too on animals and animal care. This is the first in a series and brand-new series bursting with furry, feathery fun! the next one can’t come soon enough.” - LoveReading4Kids Rights available: World all languages Large Print, Educational Rights sold: Audio, Hebrew, Slovak, US “This gorgeous new Author biography: UK publication dates: adventure series is Tamsyn Murray is the author of the Completely Book 1 – July 2016 guaranteed to win the Cassidy series, the Stunt Bunny series (Simon Book 2 – February 2017 hearts and minds of animal and Schuster), and YA supernatural romance Book 3 – August 2017 lovers of series My So-Called Afterlife (Piccadilly). Extent: 160 -176pp every age.” Outgoing, vivacious, and full of personality, Readership: UK age 8+ - Lancashire Evening Post Tamsyn blogs for Girls Heart Books, is a prolific tweeter, and has her own website at www. Material available: tamsynmurray.co.uk. Finished copies KICK Key points: • Hugely talented author who is set to be a By Mitch Johnson star of the future; this is our lead debut for 2017 An extraordinary story of family, friendship and football, set in the • Combines beautiful writing with commercial slums of Jakarta. appeal • Ever-popular football theme Synopsis: • Sensitively deals with timely issues of child Budi’s plan is simple: make it from the desolate, deprived and dusty labour, ethical consumerism and human streets of Jakarta to the pristine pitch of Bernabéu, the home of Real trafficking Madrid football club.