Publishing Weekly Wrap-Up May 10th – 14th

14 May 2021

The first couple of weeks of May have flown by and we are enjoying some exceptionally beautiful and warm spring days here in the Nordics with many exciting things going on. It’s time for our Publishing Weekly Wrap-Up that shares the latest activities, news, deals and much more from the past week. Here are the latest highlights.

We’re kicking off this week’s highlights with our amazing creator and multi-talent Linda Bondestam. We are thrilled to see her soothing and dreamy bedtime book GOOD NIGHT, EARTH out in the world as it was released in English by Restless Books at the end of April. We’re excited to see that it has received some lovely reviews including one from Kirkus Reviews: 

Inventive book design and shifting perspectives add cosy surprises to this bedtime snoozer…Bondestam depicts human figures with beige skin, which allows some latitude for ethnic identification. Along with adding sly anthropomorphic touches to the rest of the cast, she caps the nighttime scenes with one final one of a comically frazzled family of owls barely getting through a sunrise supper of croissants and hot chocolate before collapsing. Parents of younger children will definitely relate. 

A droll and imaginative addition to the crepuscular corpus.

There have been some fun online events around the new edition including an illustrator draw-off with The Loft Literary Center. Linda Bondestam also joined Wild Rumpus Books’ s virtual pyjama storytime earlier in the week on May 11th and read her book, showed some of her artwork and answered questions to English readers.

 

This week’s newly translated editions include the Spanish edition of Stories from Moominvalley (Sagor från Mumindalen) published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.

 

And to round the week off here are the latest foreign rights deals:

Danish rights to The True Deceiver (Den ärliga bedragaren) by Tove Jansson have gone to Gyldendal A/S.

Bulgarian rights to the Way to Moominvalley (Vägen till Mumindalen), Moomintroll and the Magic Hat (Mumintrollen och den magiska hatten) and Moomintroll at the Hattifattener’s Island (Mumintrollet på hattifnattarnas ö) have gone to Timelines Store Publishing House.