THE VIEW FROM THE MIDDLE.

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  • Author(s): MAUGHAN, SHANNON
  • Source:
    Publishers Weekly. 9/6/2021, Vol. 268 Issue 36, p57-65. 7p. 5 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph.
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    • Subject Terms:
      CHILDREN'S books; LITERARY agents; BROOKS, Regina; RENNERT, Laura; CHILDREN'S literature
    • Abstract:
      The article describes the trends in middle grade category of children's books according to the literary agents who serve as intermediaries between authors and publishers. Topics discussed include the shift in the quantity of new voices in her query queue noticed by Regina Brooks, president of the Serendipity Literacy Agency and the emergence of a lot of fantasy and magical realism on non-Western mythologies according to Laura Rennert, executive agent at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.