Children’s publishing start-up Egmont USA has “formed an alliance” with Laura Geringer Books. Geringer ran her imprint for 17 years at Harper Children’s until leaving the company last August. At the time, Susan Katz said in the memo announcing Geringer’s departure that she “looks forward to having more time to pursue her career as a writer, to devote her energies to the development of a new business with the capability of delivering story content on multiple platforms, and to channel more time into First Book.”
Geringer will edit “a select group of titles” for Egmont starting with the fall 20l0 list, beginning with National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart’s DANGEROUS NEIGHBORS. Laura Geringer Books is best-known for Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Mouse A Cookie series through her imprint, and the books of William Joyce. Egmont says it is “now operating on a non-exclusive basis as an independent imprint.”
Egmont USA publisher Elizabeth Law says “her excellent taste, creative ideas and deep relationships in the field will be a perfect complement to our fast growing children’s list.”