Tied to the organizational changes Macmillan Children’s announced yesterday is news that the company is closing the Roaring Brook Press imprint. Roaring Brook launched in 2002 and published several award-winning and bestselling authors and illustrators including Philip and Erin Stead, Marcus Sedgwick, Lane Smith, and Michaela Goade. Six staffers have reportedly been laid off across MCPG due to the changes: five in editorial and one in art. The news comes less than two weeks after Penguin Random House announced the closure of longtime imprint Dial Books for Young Readers.
