Macmillan Children’s Books acquires Andy Griffiths' new Adventures Unlimited series

Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired the new Adventures Unlimited series from Andy Griffiths – the author of the Treehouse series (also Macmillan Children’s Books). The new series will be highly illustrated throughout by Bill Hope.

Samantha Smith, publisher of fiction, non-fiction and picture books for Macmillan Children’s Books, bought world rights excluding US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in a six-figure deal from Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown Australia. This marks the first time Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired world rights in the author’s books. 

The Adventures Unlimited series will be a superlead title on Macmillan Children’s Books fiction list and will launch with an extensive marketing campaign featuring content and assets, as well as point-of-sale materials and a national PR campaign.

The first title in the new Adventures Unlimited series – aimed at readers aged over seven years old – will be called The Land of Lost Things and will launch in September in hardback format, with book two following in 2025.

Seven rights deals have already been confirmed in Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish, Serbian and Dutch. Moreover, Pan Macmillan Australia will be publishing Adventures Unlimited: The Land of the Lost Things in 2024. 

"Readers will be invited on hare-brained adventures such as flying to the moon without a rocket ship, fighting a high-voltage giant octopus under the water and getting lost in the land of lost things," the synopsis says. 

Smith commented: “Adventures Unlimited is going to be a must-have new series for kids around the world. Andy Griffiths is a true genius at getting kids to laugh and we could not be more excited to be working with him – and the brilliant Bill Hope – on this next chapter in his already wildly successful career.”

Belinda Ioni Rasmussen, managing director of Macmillan Children’s Books, added: “We are over the moon to publish a new laugh-out-loud fiction series by Andy Griffiths. We are also delighted to welcome illustrator Bill Hope to our bestselling and award-winning fiction list.”