J.K. Rowling. Photo: JP Masclet.

“I took no pleasure at all in bringing legal action and am delighted that this issue has been resolved favourably,” said Rowling in a statement. “I went to court to uphold the right of authors everywhere to protect their own original work. The court has upheld that right. The proposed book took an enormous amount of my work and added virtually no original commentary of its own. Now the court has ordered that it must not be published. Many books have been published which offer original insights into the world of Harry Potter. The Lexicon just is not one of them.”  

Dalmatian acquired Intervisual and its Piggy Toes imprint in summer 2006, as part of a bidding war in the wake of Intervisual’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier that spring. Dalmatian’s bid topped that of Educational Development Corp., which also had sought to acquire the beleaguered company.

Intervisual’s current publisher, Debra Mostow Zakarin, joined the company just as these dramatic changes were about to unfold. “The same week I started, the head of the board told me that the CEO [Tom Yamamoto] was no longer with the company, and things weren’t looking right as far as finances were concerned,” she recalls. “Three weeks later we had to file for bankruptcy.”   

Karre, the acquiring editor since 2005 for Flux, the YA imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide, and previously at Creative Publishing, is charged with developing, acquiring, and editing fiction and nonfiction titles, as well as picture books for the trade market.    

So it initially seems surprising that Rogers’ new project is illustrating the words of a notoriously uncompromising, self-contained and often inscrutable artist, Bob Dylan. Forever Young (Atheneum/Seo, Sept.) is Rogers’s interpretation of what has become one of Dylan’s most famous songs—and one especially loved by his fans—since it first appeared on the Planet Waves album in 1974. Rogers says one of the reasons he was drawn to the song is the directness of Dylan’s lyrics. “You really feel that he wants to connect to his listeners,” says Rogers. And in trying to express that connection, Rogers found sympathetic editors who made his new book “as satisfying a collaboration” as he experienced with Jazz A-B-Z.  

Jocelyn discovered Time Is When rather close to home. At a family reunion in fall 2005, she learned that Gleick, a relative of her ex-husband, had written a children’s book years earlier. “Slightly nervously, I asked Beth if I could take a look at her book and when I did, I thought it lovely,” she recalls. Without telling Gleick, Jocelyn showed the book to Kathy Lowinger, publisher of Tundra, which has released a number of Jocelyn’s books.