Jamil Jivani’s WHY YOUNG MEN?, which follows the author from Toronto to Yale to Molenbeek to Cairo as he learns more about destructive ideologies that promote crime and terrorism on both sides of the Atlantic, and offers possible solutions to radicalization, to Jim Gifford at HarperCollins Canada, arranged by Bruce Westwood at Westwood Creative Artists.

Knopf Canada Publishing Director Lynn Henry and Editor Amanda Betts of Knopf have acquired Canadian English rights to acclaimed mathematician and playwright John Mighton’s new book EXTREME EQUALITY, which asserts that wide-spread social and economic disparities are caused less by deficiencies in our social and political systems than by our ignorance about human potential, and that  one of our most important issues is whether we will act on the evidence uncovered by cognitive scientists in the last decade about the mechanisms of learning. John is the founder of the charitable organization JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies), the author of 2 previous books The Myth of Ability and The End of Ignorance, and a 2 time Governor General Award winning playwright. The deal was arranged by Carolyn Forde of Westwood Creative Artists and publication is planned for Spring 2018.

World French rights to Robert Paul Weston’s rhyming middle-grade novel ZORGAMAZOO to Sueill Juenesse. The deal was arranged by Carolyn Forde of Westwood Creative Artists in association with Anna Jarota Agency on behalf of Jackie Kaiser.

World French rights to Robert Paul Weston’s middlegrade novel PRINCE PUGGLY AND THE KINGDOM OF SPIFF to Sueill Juenesse. The deal was arranged by Carolyn Forde of Westwood Creative Artists in association with Anna Jarota Agency on behalf of Jackie Kaiser.

Author of Empire of Deception Dean Jobb’s THE CASE OF THE MURDEROUS DOCTOR CREAM, about the hunt for a Victorian-era serial murderer whose killing spree in the U.S., Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science, the creation of Sherlock Holmes, and the public’s insatiable appetite for tales of crime and detection, to Amy Gash at Algonquin, by Hilary McMahon of Westwood Creative Artists (World).

Carrie Snyder’s (The Candy Conspiracy) sophomore picture book, JAMMIE DAY, about a boy who finds a clever way to stay in his pajamas, to Karen Boersma at Owlkids Books, with Brooke Kerrigan to illustrate, for publication in fall 2017 by Hilary McMahon of Westwood.