Toon Partners Up With Candlewick

A press release dropped yesterday announced the Toon Books, the high-end comics for kids imprint that brought to bear the design and editorial talents of founder Francoise Mouly, the comics-for-kids proclivities of talented cartoonists like Jeff Smith and Eleanor Davis, and a process that brought on board the input of educators as to what kids might read and when and with what difficulty, will partner with Candlewick Press. The imprint will continue to publish four or five books a year, but now they'll have Candlewick's resources including its sales team and existing distribution relationship with Random House. As has likely been noted by everyone re-posting the PR, Mouly originally sought a home with an established kids' book publisher only to be turned away for the potential difficulties the books presented in how they broke with traditional kids' book expectations, so to have that option and interest now at a time when one imagines the thus-far successful line could use greater resources certainly represents a victory for Toon.
 
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