What’s New with Owlkids? | May and June

As June comes to a close and summer begins, we’re taking a look back at all the exciting rights news, award wins, and book reviews from the last two months.

• The Line in the Sand, A Park Connects Us, and The Tunnel were selected as Bank Street College of Education Best Books of 2022.
• Fred & Marjorie won the 2023 Forest of Reading Yellow Cedar Award, and Amazing Athletes was selected as a Yellow Cedar Award honor book!
• Chaiwala! was selected for the 2023 TD Grade One Book Giveaway! This means over 500,000 Grade 1 students across Canada will receive a copy of the book this fall.
• Beautiful You, Beautiful Me is a 2023 Children’s Book Council Teacher Favorites Award selection.
• Secret Schools is a 2024 Red Cedar Book Award nonfiction nominee.
• One Tiny Bubble is a 2023 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winner.

We also received some great reviews of our spring 2023 books.

• The New York Times reviewed Otis & Peanut!
• School Library Journal gave What to Bring a ★STARRED REVIEW★, our third star for spring! SLJ also reviewed Biindigen! Amik Says Welcome and A Star Explodes.
• Publishers Weekly reviewed Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super and Princess Pru and the Ogre on the Hill.

And, as always, new and amazing things are happening over in our rights department!

• The Weird Sisters are heading to the Netherlands! Dutch rights have recently sold for book #1 in the series, A Note, a Goat, and a Casserole. And in more exciting news, Dutch rights have also been sold for one of our upcoming books this fall, When Rabbit Was a Lion!
• Korean rights have been sold for another of our books coming this fall, Jeffrey Loves Blue!
• Spanish and Catalan readers will soon be meeting Otis & Peanut! Rights in both languages have been sold for book #1 and book #2 (publishing next year!) in the series.

We hope you’re having a great summer! Happy reading.

— The Owlkids Books Team