Bologna Catalogue 2012 - Australian Publishers Association

Junior Fiction
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
HarperCollinsPublishers Australia
Rights Contact: Claire Skillman
claire.skillman@harpercollins.com.au
ph. +61 2 99525458
www.harpercollins.com.au
ALWAYS JACK
By Susanne Gervay, Illustrated by Cathy Wilcox
Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Susanne Gervay is an award-winning author and specialist in child development. Cathy
Wilcox is a cartoonist and illustrator of children’s books, who has been shortlisted in the
CBCA Awards three times. Always Jack recently won the Society of Women Writers’
Biennial Children’s Book Award and the Australian Family Therapist Award.
Rights Available: World English (ex ANZ) & translation (all languages) available.
THE FARTIONARY
By Andy Jones, Illustrated by David Puckeridge
ABC Books/HarperCollinsPublishers Australia
Andy Jones is a popular children’s entertainer. He has previously toured schools with
his show ANDY JONES & THE FUNKY MONKEY and is currently touring with a fitness
show called KAMOKIDZ. He is also the author of the best-selling Enormous Book of Hot
Jokes for Kool Kids.
Rights Available: World English (ex ANZ) & translation (all languages) available.
HEROES OF THE YEAR
By Frances Watts, Illustrated by Judy Watson
ABC Books/HarperCollinsPublishers Australia
Frances Watts’ books have been shortlisted in the Children’s Book Council Picture Book
of the Year Awards and won the CBC’s Eve Pownall award. Judy Watson is the talented
illustrator of the Extraordinary Ernie and Marvellous Maud series and several books in
the Aussie Bites series.
Rights Available: Translation (all languages) available; rights sold to North America
(Eerdmans Books for Younger Readers).
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