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Bologna Children’s Book Fair Agents’ Hotlists
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The Bird Literary Agency
Behind The Sky Megan Angharad Hunter YA adaptation of the award-winning LGBTQ+ novel. The Welsh original scooped Wales Book of the Year Award in 2021, hailed “a masterpiece” by Manon Steffan Ros.
Agent Anwen Hooson UK & Commonwealth Firefly Welsh Y Lolfa
I Am Completely Not Sleepy Colette Hiller A rhyming back-and- forth between parent and child, featuring plenty of child-logic, from acclaimed writer and arts producer Hiller.
Agent Anwen Hooson
The Big Bad Dragon Who Wasn’t
Jodie Lancet-Grant Brand new picture book text from the author of The Pirate Mums and The Legend of the Wild West Twins.
Agent Anwen Hooson
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The Blair Partnership
Cherry Red, Honey Gold Meghan DeGuelle “Practical Magic meets Yellowstone” in this YA cowboy romance with a magical twist.
Agent Rachel Petty
After Charlie Sophie Riley A girl returns from college to find her male best friend has been accused of sexual assault. He claims innocence, but should she believe him?
Agent Rachel Petty
The Darkening Song Delphine Seddon A “Gen Z Daisy Jones & the Six meets Girl in Pieces” from music industry insider Seddon.
Agent Rachel Petty World English Saturday Books
Mei Bo and the Jade Dragon Narissa Chung and Shuning Ji “Turning Red meets American Born Chinese” in a highly illustrated graphic-novel hybrid.
Agent Rachel Petty
Rory Sparkes and the Elephant in the Room Hugh Bonneville Middle-grade semi- autobiographical debut from the Downton Abbey and Paddington star, in which Rory befriends an elephant who has run away from the zoo to join the circus when the children of the circus temporarily attend his school.
Agent Rachel Petty UK & Commonwealth Bloomsbury
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CAA
Hoof and Blade Teri Dederer A high stakes romantasy in which a gifted outcast must battle for her future at an elite magical academy.
Agent Alexandra Machinist US Scholastic
Beautiful to See You Again Lygia Day Peñaflor When a college-dropout discovers a tunnel in Central Park that allows her to revisit the past, she’s torn between reuniting with her high-school love or embracing her present.
Agent Hillary Jacobson US Simon & Schuster
Heirs of Infamy Kyla Zhao YA “West Side Story meets Portrait of a Thief” debut set in post-Second World War San Franciso, as the teenage heirs of rival gangs must team up to pull off a heist.
Agent Tia Ikemoto US Putnam Children’s
Mom’s Busy Work Jacinda Ardern ( 2), Ruby Jones (illus) The ex-New Zealand prime minister’s children’s debut about a girl who misses her mum when she’s at work; based on conversations Ardern had with her daughter when she was in office.
Agent Mollie Glick, David Larabell
US Philomel UK Macmillan Children’s Australia/New Zealand PRH Australia
The Sirens Tomi Adeyemi The YA star’s “thrilling” standalone set on a prestigious university campus, “with the dark allure of The Secret History and The Craft”.
Agent Mollie Glick
US Holt UK Macmillan Children’s Dutch, French Olympe, German Heyne, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese-Brazil, Ukrainian
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Children’s Books North Agency
Selkie
Rachel Plummer The award-winning Scottish poet’s “magical” picture-book story about a little girl who needs to escape the indoor noise. So, in her imagination, she dives into the sea like a selkie.
Agent Emma Layfield
More to Explore Joely Badger An “exciting” debut picture book, a story “full of adventure and fun” as Grandad Pops encourages Flo to be brave in the world and explore as much as possible.
Agent Emma Layfield
Excuse Me, Audrey Catherine Fortey A “gorgeous” debut picture book about a confident, autistic girl and her imaginary dragon who are starting school together: “Perfect for little ones who are finding their place in the world.”
Agent Emma Layfield
Top of the Plops Bethan Clarke The award-winning writer of Holey Moley’s newest is a “hilarious” picture book about a competition to find “the number one dinosaur plopper”, and is “packed with laugh-out-loud poo-stopping moments”.
Agent Emma Layfield Curtis Brown
Le Jour ou le Mondes Est Devenu Bizarre (The Day the World Went Bonkers) Marie Pavlenko ( 3) “Original and hilarious” Roald Dahl-esque story in which a young boy wakes up to find that he’s been expelled from his body.
Agent Roxane Edouard France Flammarion Jeunesse
Il Mio Gatto È un Influencer (My Cat Is an Influencer) Desy Icardi “Funny and light-hearted” debut middle-grade featuring a girl on a mission to become a social media star who literally steps into her cat’s paws.
Agent Enrichetta Frezzato Italy Il Battello a Vapore
Buckle Jones and the Germ-Free Adolescent MW Craven James Bond as you have not seen him before – still handsome and suave as always – but a teacher now training the best young spies.
Agent Ciara Finan, Viola Hayden Agent Lydia Silver
Dream by the Shadows Logan Karlie Lush, gothic YA fantasy. In a world where dreaming is a curse, Esmer is brought to the dreaming realm by the Shadow Bringer where she discovers he may not be the villain he’s portrayed to be.
Agent Ciara Finan UK Headline, US Christy Ottavino UK Puffin US Scholastic, Brazil
According to Plan Christen Randall Second feel-good queer YA romance from the bestselling author, featuring “cosy coffee shops, lit nerds, creative chemistry and finding first love in unexpected places”.
Agent Becca Langton
US Atheneum UK Pushkin, option in Brazil
When the Storm Comes Polly Ho-Yen The award-winner’s “Breakfast Club meets The Day After Tomorrow” latest has four students trapped in a library, who reluctantly team up to escape a brutal storm.
Agent Clare Wallace
World English Knights Of, options in Arabic and Russian
Anderson Children’s Agency
Seam Ripper Anna Fiteni “Bridgerton meets The Lost Boys” in this YA/new adult crossover debut, a glamorous and gory, vampire-filled historical fantasy set in a haute couture London atelier.
Agent Lydia Silver
The Girl in Room Nine Aileen Iaccino A “Holly Jackson meets Only Murders in the Building” YA thriller début set at the Ashford Inn bed and breakfast, which holds a sinister secret about the truth behind the mysterious death of Willow Fremont.
Agent Becca Langton US Simon Pulse
The Missing Magic of Sparrow Xia Leia Ham Illustrated middle-grade debut in which a strange illness drains Zenith Academy’s students of their magical powers, and young fire mage Sparrow is drawn into the search for a cure.
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