Rights Report: Children's Books
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Compiled by Diane Roback -- Publishers Weekly, 6/11/2009
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Darren Shan. |
HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired world rights to 13 children’s books based on John Grogan’s dog Marley. Editorial director Maria Modugno did the deal with Laurie Abkemeier at DeFiore and Company. The new titles will include several I Can Read! books and three additional picture books, including Marley Goes to School; the first book will be published this summer. “John Grogan has such an endless supply of stories inspired by the original Marley that we knew we’d need an extended program to be able to tell them all,” Modugno said.
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Shane W. Evans (l.) |
Shana Corey at Random House Children's Books bought rights to two books by YA debut author Kimberly Marcus in a pre-empt. The first novel, Exposed, features a 16-year-old high school senior whose loyalties are turned upside down when her brother is accused of raping her best friend. It pubs in spring 2011; the second book will follow in spring 2012. Tracey Adams at Adams Literary was the agent.
The Disney Channel has acquired film rights to Shrinking Violet, Danielle Joseph’s debut YA novel at MTV Books. The deal was made by Stephen Moore at the Paul Kohner Agency, on behalf of Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio.
Liz Szabla at Feiwel and Friends has bought world rights to two novels by Andrew Smith (Ghost Medicine). Winger and The Marbury Lens are respectively slated for fall 2010 and fall 2011. In the supernaturally tinged Winger, a boy at a prep school struggles with conformity; and in The Marbury Lens, a teen who is pulled into an apocalyptic alternate universe tries to get back home. Laura Rennert of the Andrea Brown Agency did the deal.
Michelle Frey at Knopf acquired world rights in a pre-empt to Sonia Gensler's debut, The Revenant, a Victorian ghost story set at a Cherokee girls’ school in the old West. The deal is for two books, with the first slated for 2011. Jennifer Laughran of the Andrea Brown Agency was the agent.
