Cover Reveal: Matched
Dutton Children's Books has just unveiled thecover for one of the more anticipated titles on its fall list: Matched by Ally Condie. The publisherpaid seven figures for this book and two others from Condie in an auction backin December.Matched is set in a dystopian worldin which a group called "The Society" pairs people with their idealmates; the 17-year-old protagonist finds herself falling in love with someoneother than who's been chosen for her. To date, foreign rights have been sold in 16countries.
Adornetto'sAmerican Adventure
Seventeen-year-oldAustralian author Alexandra Adornetto recently visited the U.S. for aprepub tour for her new book, Halo,out in September from Macmillan's Feiwel and Friends imprint. Adornetto (whopublished a trilogy with HarperCollins Australiawhen she was 14) visited several bookstores in San Francisco, lunched with staffers at Anderson'sBookshop in Naperville, Ill.,and Baker & Taylor in New Jersey, and wasfeted with a dinner by her publisher in Manhattan.She also took time to sign ARCs at Macmillan's distinctive headquarters in the Flatiron Building, seen here. First in a plannedtrilogy, Halo is about an angel whofalls in love with a human boy.
'God's Dream' in South Africa
DesmondTutu's picture book God's Dream isfinding an audience in his native South Africa. The former archbishopreceived this photo, of a poster the children created of a rainbow—aka"God smiling"—from second-grade teacher Mariam at Claremont Main RoadMosque. "I used Bishop Tutu's book to teach a series of lessons aboutpeace, love, acceptance, tolerance and celebrating difference as part of myIslamic studies curriculum," she wrote. "I really appreciate theuniversal message of the book [and] that it is non-denominational."Candlewick is the U.S.publisher of God's Dream, written withDouglas Carlton Abrams and illustrated by LeUyen Pham; a board book editionwent on sale in January.
