The pictures help encourage kids, who are used to a lot of visual stimulation, to keep reading.”Īndrea Spooner, editorial director for Little Brown’s James Patterson publishing program for young readers, said she is “more excited about this series launch than I have been about any since Maximum Ride debuted in 2005. My illustrated novels are about two-thirds words and one-third pictures, which I think is a nice balance. “What turned on a light bulb for me about the possibilities of words and pictures working together was Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret. “I think illustrations make it easier for a lot of kids to get into a book,” Patterson explained. Like his Middle School and I Funny series, Treasure Hunters, which features art by Juliana Neufeld, is heavily illustrated. “I also wanted to touch on the importance of kids’ taking responsibility for their own actions, and get kids thinking about that when they read this book.” “I wanted to create an adventure that is both exciting and funny, and I’m not aware of too many books that do both successfully,” Patterson told PW.
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The novel follows the four globetrotting Kidd siblings as they search for a shipwreck full of gold, long-lost artifacts, world-famous paintings – and their missing parents.
Treasure Hunters takes Patterson in a new comedic action-adventure direction. Patterson, whose books for young readers have sold more than 25 million copies, wrapped up his bestselling eight-book Maximum Ride series last year, and his Witch & Wizard, Middle School, and Daniel X series are ongoing. Each has an announced first printing of 750,000 copies.
And I Even Funnier, volume two of Patterson’s middle-grade I Funny series with Grabenstein, which spotlights an aspiring young comedian, has a December 9 release date. Confessions: The Private School Murders, coauthored by Maxine Paetro and the sequel to 2012’s Confessions of a Murder Suspect, pubs on October 7. He debuts a middle-grade adventure series with Treasure Hunters, written with Chris Grabenstein and Mark Shulman and due from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers September 16. The prolific James Patterson has been busy at his keyboard.
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