Bologna Children’s Book Fair Agents’ Hotlists
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Wally Mammoth and the Sled Race Corey R Tabor, Dalton Webb (illus) The first “giggling- inducing” story in a new, four-book series for early readers by Caldecott-winner Tabor in which Wolf wants to win the sled race and Otto does, too; but Wally Mammoth is not so sure…
Agent Rebecca Sherman World English HarperCollins
Ramin Abbas has Major Questions Ahmad Saber An “intensely brave, gorgeously written” YA debut about a gay Muslim teen who has to choose between being true to himself or his faith – and his realisation that maybe they aren’t as separate as he thought.
Agent Dan Lazar North American English Simon & Schuster
Call of the Dragon Natasha Bowen “Eragon meets African mythology” YA novel in a kingdom where dragon gods rule the earth and sky – until the gods are betrayed, and one girl embarks on a journey to save the world.
Agent Jodi Reamer
UK & Commonwealth PRH Children’s, North American English Random House
The Crimson Throne Beth Revis, Sara Raasch “Outlander meets Holly Black” in an enemies-to- lovers romantasy set in the Scottish court, where a fae guardian of the realm falls in love with a charming Elizabethan spy who could also be the key to her world’s undoing.
Agents Merrilee Heifetz (for Revis), Amy Stapp (on behalf of Raasch) World English Sourcebooks
The Wylie Agency
Title TBC Dave Eggers A new all-ages adventure from the author of the Newbery Medal winner and bestseller The Eyes and the Impossible.
Agent Andrew Wylie
UK Andersen Press, US Knopf Books for Young Readers, Germany Atlantis, Netherlands
Somadina Akwaeke Emezi ( 10) The award-winner and Pet author’s novel, set in a magical West African world, is about a teen girl who must save her missing twin while learning to navigate her own terrifying new powers.
Agent Jacqueline Ko
UK Faber, US Knopf Books for Young Readers, Nigeria
Hansel and Gretel Stephen King,
Maurice Sendak (illus) The classic, haunting tale of two brave children lost in a dangerous forest, reimagined by King with artwork by the late Sendak.
Agent Luke Ingram, the Lotts Agency (for King)
US HarperCollins Children’s, UK Hodder, Italy Adelphi, Germany Atlantis, France L’école des loisirs & Albin Michel, Spain Penguin Random House, Brazil, Portugal, Netherlands, Greece
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