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Karen Ball, head of editorial at Working Partners, is to join Little, Brown as publisher for YA imprint Atom and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
At Working Partners, Ball has commissioned children's series fiction across a range of genres from Erin Hunter's Survivors to Beast Quest. She previously worked as commissioning editor at Scholastic and is herself a children's author.
Little, Brown publisher David Shelley praised Ball's "formidable level of experience in children's publishing, knowledge of intellectual property, as well as huge amounts of editorial passion, energy and commercial nous". He said: "We have ambitious plans for our Young Adult and Children's publishing here, and Karen is the perfect person to take these two imprints to the next level."
Ball said her aim with the team at Little, Brown was "to build an exemplary model of 21st century children's publishing: imaginative, inclusive and innovative".
As part of the expansion of the children's imprints, Katherine Agar has been promoted to commissioning editor, reporting in to Ball.