Recent Book Deals

A sample of recent deals, as reported in Publishers Marketplace. This list is by no means exhaustive!
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Changelings to Scholastic

Vivian Vande Velde's middle grade fractured fairy tale CHANGELINGS, about a very proper princess and a wrong-side-of-the-tracks fairy who switch places with zany mixed results, to Scholastic in a two-book deal.

And Ranger Makes 10

Kate Messner's next four chapter books in the RANGER IN TIME series, about a time-traveling golden retriever who helps kids in peril throughout history, bringing the series to ten books, to Scholastic.

Fairytime for Phoebe Wahl

Ezra Jack Keats Award winning author/illustrator Phoebe Wahl's BACKYARD FAIRIES, in which a girl searches for elusive fairies in the woods behind her home and learns to embrace the magic of the unseen, to Knopf in the US and Tundra in Canada.

Picture Perfect

Author/Illustrator Emilie Boon's picture book ELLA AND MONKEY AT SEA, the story of a little girl and her best stuffed friend, who keep each other company on a long and perilous ship voyage from Holland to New York, to Candlewick.

DOGS Find a Home

Debut author-illustrator Erica Sirotich's FOUND DOGS, a counting and reverse-counting concept book featuring an adorable assortment of wriggly, wraggly rescue dogs and the loving families of all kinds who take them in, to Dial/Penguin, at auction, in a two-book deal.

Fruity Fun for Everyone

Author/illustrator Mark Hoffmann's FRUIT BOWL, about a tomato who just wants to join the other fruit in the bowl but has to prove why he belongs there, to Knopf Childrens, in a two-book pre-empt.

A Fashionable Debut

Kate Messner and Margaret Powell's ONLY THE BEST: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Lowe, a biography of a little-known African-American designer who learned to sew from her grandmother, a former slave, and grew up to become a 20th-century fashion pioneer, to Chronicle.

Monster Madness

Gwenda Bond and Christopher Rowe's WELCOME TO HOTEL MONSTER, about a trio of mystery-solving kids who live in a luxury hotel catering to Bigfeet, Vampires, Fairies and other "supernormals", to Greenwillow/HC in a two-book deal.

Torn from the Headlines

BACKLASH author Sarah Darer Littman's latest YA, about a girl whose father's company is targeted by online hacktevists, and the fallout when her entire electronic history, from texting lies to overly-revealing diary entries, is laid bare, to Scholastic.

A Picture's Worth a Thousand...

DROWNED CITY author-illustrator Don Brown and Professor Michael Perfit's graphic nonfiction OLDER THAN DIRT: a Kinda, Sorta Biography of the Earth, showcasing the history and mysteries of our favorite planet in an accessible comic format, to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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