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Children’s screenwriter turns to fiction
Chicken House has bought world rights in Rebecca Promitzer’s début children’s novel Bea Klednik and the Raintown Convicts from Sophie Gorell Barnes and Meg Davis of MBA Literary Agents.
The story takes place in perennially rainy town Elbow, where some of the children already have webbed feet. A gang of friends called the Raintown Convicts try to solve the mystery of why a dead man was found under the floorboards of a derelict house.
Chicken House will distribute through Scholastic in the US. Promitzer has written for children’s television series “The Secret of Eel Island”, and adapted Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher for the theatre.
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