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Wilson to update Five Children and It for Puffin
21.03.11 | Caroline Horn
Jacqueline Wilson is to write an updated version of E Nesbit's classic children's novel Five Children and It in a new deal with Puffin.
Elv Moody, editorial director for Classic Puffin, and Alexandra Antscherl, Puffin senior editor, bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Caroline Walsh at David Higham Associates.
First published in 1902 and never out of print, Nesbit's book follows a group of children who discover a sand-fairy who grants them one wish per day. When the wishes go comically wrong, the children's adventures begin. Wilson said: "E Nesbit is my all-time favourite classic children's authors, so I'm delighted to have this chance to write a contemporary version of Five Children and It. It will be a very exciting challenge."
Meanwhile, RHCB fiction publisher Annie Eaton has also agreed a four-book deal for UK and Commonwealth rights for four new novels by Wilson, also through David Higham Associate's Walsh. Eaton said one of the new books will be a third story about Wilson’s heroine Hetty Feather who also stars in a new autumn book, Sapphire Battersea. Eaton added: “Jacqueline is truly on top form and I am convinced Hetty is set to rival Tracy Beaker in the popularity stakes.”
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Oh dear! I fear Miss Wilson (talented as she is) may well "improve it worse."
If this had to be done (and it really, really didn't) couldn't they have got someone slightly more in tune with the original?
Because, with no disrespect to Ms Wilson, clearly Puffin are going to want her to make it a Jacqueline Wilson book, otherwise what would be the point of the doubtless monumental advance. Tracey Beaker Meets the Psammead, complete with obligatory single-parent family set-up and Nick Sharratt illustrations, anyone?
Ah c'mon Bookseller, if that word-a-bit-like-'twit' is OK to use in one of Dame Jackie's books, surely it's OK to use on here? And I wasn't calling Jackie a 'twit', 'twas merely a pun on the title, based how she might update. Boooo to the censors... if that one's banned, can I get away with 'Five Children and Innit'?
What a ghastly idea. And, if it HAD to be done (which it doesn't) couldn't they have chosen a writer like Geraldine McCaughrean, who can do more than one, utterly simplistic and pedestrian, style of writing?
Oh dear! I fear Miss Wilson (talented as she is) may well "improve it worse."
If this had to be done (and it really, really didn't) couldn't they have got someone slightly more in tune with the original?
Because, with no disrespect to Ms Wilson, clearly Puffin are going to want her to make it a Jacqueline Wilson book, otherwise what would be the point of the doubtless monumental advance. Tracey Beaker Meets the Psammead, complete with obligatory single-parent family set-up and Nick Sharratt illustrations, anyone?
Ah c'mon Bookseller, if that word-a-bit-like-'twit' is OK to use in one of Dame Jackie's books, surely it's OK to use on here? And I wasn't calling Jackie a 'twit', 'twas merely a pun on the title, based how she might update. Boooo to the censors... if that one's banned, can I get away with 'Five Children and Innit'?
What a ghastly idea. And, if it HAD to be done (which it doesn't) couldn't they have chosen a writer like Geraldine McCaughrean, who can do more than one, utterly simplistic and pedestrian, style of writing?