Eve White sells a host of kids' titles
30.04.09 | Victoria Gallagher
Literary agent Eve White has recently signed deals for a host of different titles, selling four books to a four different publishers.
White has struck deals for two books by Tracey Corderoy. Alison Green Books has acquired world rights for I Want that Dragon, Now and will publish the title in spring 2011. Lara Hancock, picture book publisher at Egmont Press has also bought world rights from White for Corderoy’s A Flower in the Snow, with a provisional publishing date of November 2010.
Meanwhile Ruth Williams at Piccadilly Press has bought world rights to publish two follow-ups to Dinopants by Ciaran Murtagh, which is due to be published by Piccadilly in September. The as-yet-untitled second book in the series will be published in February and the third in September 2010.
Murtagh appears in and writes children's TV shows such as 'Professor Bumm's Story Machine' and 'The Slammer'. He has also just been commissioned to write a new series for the BBC in
which he will star.
White has also struck a deal with Scholastic’s editorial director Katherine Halligan to publish a second picture book by Abie Longstaff. Scholastic cquired Halligan's The Mummy Shop in December last year and plans to publish it in 2011, with the new title scheduled for 2012.
Comments on this article
By philip.jones@bookseller.co.uk
News = publishers buy books to be published in the future = The Bookseller reports it25 Jan 10 10:05
By philip.jones@bookseller.co.uk
We report rights deal when announced. We report plenty of things which are not announced. Everyone is happy.25 Jan 10 12:10
By Ross Kelp
It is news. Only the headline should've been: "Publishers buy books not written by C-list celebrity".25 Jan 10 13:25
By TJ
For God’s sake! This isn’t the Washington Post unearthing a major news story every other day. This is a trade mag about the world of bookselling. Its job is to print press releases like these and other industry stuff and the odd bit of gossip along with any major story that could be linked with the book trade. What is the problem if you think this story is not worthy, or a just copy of a press release? You can scan it in 1 second and then move on to something that interests you. You ain’t paying by the word you know.25 Jan 10 14:13
By philip.jones@bookseller.co.uk
Good work. We may adopt this as our new mission statement: "Its job is to print press releases like these and other industry stuff and the odd bit of gossip along with any major story that could be linked with the book trade." Can you please send gossip to the above email address.25 Jan 10 14:21
