Hachette Australia Rights Guide - Hachette Childrens

NEW PICTURE BOOKS,
YOUNGER READERS
THE RULES OF SUMMER
written & illustrated by Shaun Tan
The eagerly awaited new book from Astrid
Lindgren and Academy Award winner, Shaun
Tan.
The Rules of Summer is a deceptively simple
scrapbook of images and captions relating
how an older and younger boy spent the
summer. Each spread tells of an event and
the lesson learned. By turns, these events
become darker and more sinister as the boys
push their games further and further.
Moments of humour and surreal fantasy
leaven the tone in typical Shaun Tan fashion
to make The Rules of Summer one of his most
accessible books to date ensuring it will also
become one of his most popular.
KEY POINTS
- Long-awaited new books from this
amazingly talented author and
illustrator
- Accessible, with themes to which
children world over will relate
- A co-edition print run will be
organised for the end of the year and
costs, full specifications and delivery
dates will be advised when the full
manuscript is available
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shaun Tan’s books include The Rabbits, The
Red Tree, The Lost Thing, Tales from Outer
Suburbia (Allen & Unwin), and the acclaimed
wordless novel The Arrival. Shaun has also
worked as a theatre designer, as a concept
artist for the films ‘Horton Hears a Who’ and
Pixar’s ‘WALL-E’ and as an animator on the
Academy Award-winning short film adapted
from his book The Lost Thing. In 2011, Shaun
won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award,
shared an Academy Award for his work on the
animated short film version of his book The
Lost Thing and was given the Dromkeen Medal
for services to children’s literature in
Australia. His books have been translated into
more than twenty languages and won many
prizes both in Australia and internationally.
AGE 0-5
SPECIFICATIONS September 2012 (TBC),
$28.99, 300 x 70 mm (landscape), hardback,
48 pp
RIGHTS HELD World, ex North America (North
America, Arthur Levine/Scholastic)
RIGHTS SOLD Italian (Rizzoli)
RIGHTS UNDER OPTION List on request
LANGUAGES AVAILABLE Icelandic, Finnish,
Latvian, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian,
Bulgarian, Hebrew, Romanian, Thai,
Ukranian, Indonesian, Greek, Slovak
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