“She’s so good graphically, just extraordinary,” Falconer said. When Ann Bobco, who served as art director for the entire Olivia series, left Simon & Schuster and with Michael di Capua Books already at HarperCollins, Falconer had two powerful reasons to make a change. “I told him Olivia is the only book I’ve ever seen that was published by someone else that I wished I had published myself.” “I normally consider myself a very dignified individual but I rushed over to him like a teenage girl groupie and introduced myself,” di Capua recalled. “When the first Olivia came out, I was just blown away by it,” said di Capua, who met Falconer shortly after, at a party celebrating the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books in December 2000. The acquisition is a coup for di Capua, a longtime admirer of Falconer’s work. The book will be published by Harper’s Michael di Capua Books in April 2020. He’s also moving house: Suzanne Murphy, president and publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books, has acquired world rights to Two Dogs, written and illustrated by Falconer, via Conrad Rippy at Levine Plotkin & Menin. Ian Falconer, creator of the internationally bestselling book series about Olivia the pig, is swapping porcine characters for canines in his first picture book outside of the Olivia universe.
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