News: rights

Editors earn stripes in a string of deals at Bologna

Stripes Publishing has struck a brace of deals at this year’s fair, inking a wild swimming adventure for teens and its first book in translation.... Read more

Hill and Phil a haunting match

Rebecca Hill at Usborne has won a “hotly stories contested” auction for a series of Middle Grade ghost stories by débutant Phil Hickes.... Read more

Crowd-funding scheme opens door to illustrators

Scottish indie Little Door has launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise £3,500 to publish author/ illustrator Will Hughes’ début What Not to Give an Ogre... Read more

Zommer time for OUP as tree title leads nature trio

OUP has bought three picture books about the natural world by author/illustrator Yuval Zommer. Read more

Egmont triumphs to bag B B Alston début

Egmont has bought UK rights to what is undoubtedly the book of this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair: B B Alston’s Amari and the Night... Read more

Pollock’s rabbit runs to production firm Seven Stories

TV rights to Tom Pollock’s thriller White Rabbit, Red Wolf have been sold to Seven Stories, the production company behind Netflix drama "Selection Day".... Read more

The Next Step is sheepish deal for Sweet Cherry

Sweet Cherry has bought the publishing rights to a trio of licences: Aardman Studios’ Shaun the Sheep, nostalgia brand Rainbow, and CBBC reality TV-style show... Read more

Meaningful goats: Brexit picture book hits the farm

Andersen Press will publish “the first Brexit picture book”, Smriti Prasadam-Halls and illustrator Robert Starling’s The Little Island. Read more

Heel the world: Pichon’s Shoe Wars’ huge footprint

Scholastic has sold Liz Pichon’s new novel, Shoe Wars, into 12 territories and has notched up a 45th translation deal for her Tom Gates series.... Read more

Birding and forestry titles fly to Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Children’s has inked three illustrated conservation-conscious nature titles. Read more

Mann goes overboard with double deal for Bath Spa graduates

Rachel Mann of the Jo Unwin Literary Agency has struck deals with Macmillan Children’s Books and Walker Books for Bath Spa MA graduates Wibke Brueggemann... Read more

Fickling finds much to like about a dislike of books

David Fickling Books has bought two titles from first-time picture book author Emma Parry, founder of review site My Book Corner and organiser of International... Read more

The Unadoptables finds a home at PRH

Penguin Random House Children’s UK has acquired Hana Tooke’s début Middle Grade title in a “significant” six-figure deal, with the manuscript selling in pre-empts in... Read more