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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.