Rights round-up

Sales

Fiction—Giramondo has sold US rights to Border Districts and Stream System (Gerald Murnane) to Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Text has sold Turkish rights to Fear (Dirk Kurbjuweit) to Hep Kitap.

Nonfiction—HarperCollins has sold world Dutch rights to At Our Table (Delicious Magazine) to Fontiane Uitgevers. Text has sold US and Taiwanese rights to Anaesthesia (Kate Cole-Adams) to Counterpoint and Faces, respectively.

Children’s—Hardie Grant Egmont has sold North American rights to Archie and the Bear (Zanni Louise & David Mackintosh); Brazilian rights to eight titles in the ‘Squishy Taylor’ series (Ailsa Wild & Ben Wood); Spanish rights to Billie B Brown: The Night Fright and Billie B Brown: The Cutest Pet Ever (both Sally Rippin); simplified Chinese rights to Stiches & Stuffing (Carrie Gallasch & Sara Acton); simplified Chinese rights to Two Rainbows (Sophie Masson & Michael McMahon); simplified Chinese rights to Ruby and Leonard (Judith Rossell); complex Chinese rights to Clare’s Goodbye (Libby Gleeson & Anna Pignataro); Icelandic rights to three titles in the ‘Hey Jack’ series (The Star of the Week, The Top Team and The Big Adventure, all Sally Rippin); Icelandic rights to three titles in the ‘Billie B Brown’ series (The Night Fright, The Little Lie and The Cutest Pet Ever, all Sally Rippin); Hebrew rights to My Two Blankets (Irena Kobald & Freya Blackwood); and Hebrew rights to Go to Sleep, Jessie! (Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood). HarperCollins has sold simplified Chinese rights to Ruby Red Shoes Goes to London (Kate Knapp) to Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing; and Slovenian rights to This is a Ball (Beck and Matt Stanton) to Mis D.oo. Walker Books has sold Turkish rights to four books in the ‘Chook Doolan’ series (On the Road, Unhappy Camper, Up and Away and Let’s Do Diwali, all James Roy, illus by Lucinda Gifford); Korean rights to Nature Storybooks: Big Red Kangaroo (Claire Saxby, illus by Graham Byrne); Korean rights to Nature Storybooks: Flight of the Honey Bee (Raymond Huber, illus by Brian Lovelock); Korean rights to Nature Storybooks: Platypus (Sue Whiting, illus by Mark Jackson); Danish rights to Nature Storybooks: Koala (Claire Saxby, illus by Julie Vivas); and simplified Chinese rights to Mum Goes to Work (Libby Gleeson, illus by Leila Rudge).

Acquisitions

Fiction—Giramondo has acquired world English rights to All My Goodbyes (Mariana Dimópulos); and world English rights to Balada (Marcelo Cohen). Text has acquired world rights to Preservation (Jock Serong); and world English rights to The Girl Without Skin (Mads Peder Nordbo).

Nonfiction— Giramondo has acquired Australian rights to Can You Tolerate This? (Ashleigh Young).

Children’s— Text has acquired ANZ rights to Saving Marty (Paul Griffin); world rights to The Incredibly Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls (Adam Cece); world rights to The Peacock Detectives (Carly Nugent); world rights to The Art of Taxidermy (Sharon Kernot); and world rights to Bonesland (Brendan Lawley). Wilkins Farago has acquired world English rights to Bureau of Weights and Measures (Anne-Gaelle Balpe, illus by Vincent Mahé) from Editions Milan; and world English rights to The Pink Suitcase (Susie Morgenstern, illus by Serge Bloch) from Gallimard Jeunesse.

Category: Rights round-up