Press Release: Deals Done
Tony Diterlizzi To Publish New Young Fiction Series With Simon & Schuster Children's Books
Posted at 3:28PM Monday 08 Mar 2010
Simon and Schuster UK is pleased to announce it will be publishing a new Young Fiction series, The Search for WondLa, by bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi. DiTerlizzi is well known for the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Spiderwick Chronicles, and he received a Caldecott Honor for The Spider and the Fly in 2002. The first book in the new series, also called The Search for WondLa, will be published September 2010 as part of a global publication for Simon and Schuster. It will be supported by a major marketing campaign.The Search for WondLa honors traditional children's literature with a totally original space-age adventure: one that is as complex as an alien planet but as simple as a child's wish to belong. When an intruder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by her robot, Muthr, the twelve-year-year-old girl is forced to flee aboveground: somewhere she's never been before. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her, for she knows that other humans exist, because of an item she treasure, a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl, an adult, and a robot, with the strange word, "WondLa." This fantastical story is enriched with two-color two-page spreads plus spot illustrations throughout that reveal even more of DiTerlizzi's vision, and, for those readers with a webcam, the book also contains the ground-breaking feature of "Augmented Reality" in several places. Tony DiTerlizzi says, "I'm thrilled to mark a decade of making books with Simon & Schuster with the launch of my newest novel, The Search for WondLa. When I first conceived of The Spiderwick Chronicles, I imagined a story from the past coming forward to the present. In The Search for WondLa, I am bringing a story back in time from the future. My vision is to create a twenty-first-century fairy tale." This is an amazing, page-turning science-fiction adventure series with wonderful characters that you grow to love. Tony's narrative and illustrations are rooted in classic children's literature, but only someone of his enormous talent could meld historical tradition with a futuristic vision to create an original and fantastic new world. Ingrid Selberg, Children's Publishing Director at Simon and Schuster UK says: "We are delighted to be publishing The Search for WondLa in the UK. Tony's books have always been very successful and warmly received here and I am confident that The Search for WondLa will exceed Spiderwick's top track record.
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