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Chicago, IL Phone: 773-774-3495 Cell: 773-294-3203 Fax: 773-442-0810 [email protected] Mission Statement Levine Querido is born of a fervent mission to give voice to a uniquely talented, exceptionally diverse group of authors and artists whose books will inspire young people while offering them a sense of their (and others’) rightful place in the world. Our books will be characterized by great storytelling, undeni- ably powerful and beautiful artwork, and a fearless commitment to telling deep truths. (Full disclosure: Sometimes we will make you laugh while doing so.) Levine Querido is a team of passionate book-lovers, and our audience is as wide and diverse as that term encompasses. We look forward to an ongoing, exciting relationship with you about books, authors, and artists, and making the world a better place, book by book. Our Two Lists Arthur A. Levine Extraordinary Picture Books, Poetry, Novels, Nonfiction, and Graphic Novels, written & illustrated by, and centered on the experiences and points of view of the magnificently diverse creators among us, writing in English. Em Querido An exciting selection of the work of some of the world’s most gifted authors and artists, translated from other languages around the world, created and curated in partnership with Querido NL. Passport Photograph Emanuel Querido, circa 1940. Courtesy of Querido Publishers, NL. WHO WAS EMANUEL QUERIDO? By Arthur Levine Querido is how you might address someone you care about. It means “dear one,” literally, expressing a deep affection and warmth. Of course, that’s how I hope readers will feel about the books of LQ; so the meaning of the word is very important to me. But there’s more to the story: Querido was also a person—Emanuel Querido, to be exact. He was born to a family of Sephardic Jews who fled from the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal in the 1490s. The Querido family developed roots in the Netherlands. In 1898, when Emanuel was 27, he opened a bookstore in Amsterdam that became a center for all kinds of readers and thinkers. In a very short time he started publishing books, first among them a book on the ethics of love and marriage by the Swedish feminist educator Ellen Key. It was the beginning of a passionate effort to find and translate great writers for the delight of his readers. In 1915 Querido made the leap from occasional publisher to founder of a publishing house. From the start the company embraced the ideals of fine writing and craftsmanship in bookmaking, as well as an openness to innovation. In fact, it was Querido who published the Salamander books —the first true paperback series—in 1934, a year before the first Penguin paperback was sold. But perhaps most inspirational to me was the Querido response to the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Although Emanuel himself was not a particularly observant Jew, he was still moved by the censure of German writers—dissidents and Jews—that gradually erased these writers’ voices. (And perhaps he knew that Nazis would not distinguish between a Jew who was observant and one who was assimilated.) Together with Fritz Landshoff they founded Querido Verlag, based in the Netherlands, from which they spread the urgent writing of these silenced creators as widely as they could. In 110 works of resistance, these exiled writers spoke out about the Nazi regime’s plan to start a war and rule the whole world. Only a few days after the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, the Gestapo stormed the Querido offices, ultimately shutting it down. Querido himself was captured and sent to Sobibor, the concentration camp, where he died in 1943. Fortunately, Querido’s colleagues re-launched the company after the war, continuing its great traditions and growing its fine reputation. In 1971 a children’s book division was founded which has consistently produced stunning, award-winning titles. Now, with the help of my Dutch colleagues, I bring the Querido name to North America, in the form of a list that seeks out glorious talent from around the world for the pleasure of English-speaking readers. There’s a saying in Jewish culture that a person isn’t truly gone until the last person living no longer remembers their name. I hope that not only can this (Levine) Querido list bring great joy to readers, but that it can keep alive the name, the memory, the legacy, and the brave spirit of Emanuel Querido. 4 The Wanderer By Peter Van den Ende “Wonderfully strange and strangely wonderful, The Wanderer is an epic dream captured in superbly meticulous detail.” — Shaun Tan As with Shaun Tan’s The Arrival, it gives us collective goosebumps to introduce the singular talent and imagination of Peter Van den Ende to North America. Without a word, and with Escher-like precision, Van den Ende presents one little paper boat’s journey across the ocean, past reefs and between icebergs, through schools of fish, swaying water plants, and terrifying sea monsters. The little boat is all alone, and while its aloneness gives it the chance to wonder at the fairy-tale world above and below the waves uninterrupted, that also means it must save itself when storms approach. And so it does. We hope that readers young and old will find the strength and inspiration that we did in this quietly powerful story about growing, learning, and life’s ups and downs. Peter Van den Ende makes his remarkable debut as a picture book artist with The Wanderer. When he’s not drawing, he works as a nature guide in the Cayman Islands. The beauty of the sea was his source of inspiration for his wonderful wordless story. $21.99 ISBN 978-1-64614-017-6 The Wanderer 52199> $21.99 U.S. HC ISBN 978-1-64614-017-6 Trim: 9 x 12 96 pages • Picture Book (All Ages) Rights: U.S./Canada 9 781646 140176 On Sale: October 4 5 But there’s a... very big animal. She’s standing with her white bottom to Little Fox. On legs like thin branches. Little Fox hesitates for a moment, then creeps closer. The animal has spots. She also has very, very, very big ears. She looks up. She’s not scared of Little Fox. Why not? The dream keeps going. It is still very early.