Children’s Rights
The Children’s Rights Department is responsible for licensing rights, including merchandising, TV & Film and theatrical rights, across the whole of the Pan Macmillan children’s publishing division, Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB). This includes the imprints Campbell, Kingfisher, and Two Hoots.
MCB is one of the UK’s leading children’s publishers; we have been creating and publishing exciting stories for over 150 years and continue to acquire and publish future classics of tomorrow for the global market. We are the number one picture book imprint in the UK and are proud to publish best-selling and prize-winning authors and illustrators, including Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler, Rod Campbell, Chris Riddell, Emily Gravett, Frances Hardinge, M.G Leonard and Rob Biddulph.
We do multiple deals for all our titles where we have rights and our top internationally sold title is The Gruffalo, where we have sold over 105 languages and dialects around the world.
As part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing family, we work closely with our sister companies around the world, as well as a wide range of other publishers in order to find the best match for our titles. We work directly with publishers across Europe and the Americas, and through our co-agents in Asia.
The team shares a true passion for children’s books and this shines through when we sell our MCB titles around the world. Together, we speak over 10 different languages fluently and every member of the team has lived abroad at some point in their life, gaining a strong understanding of the markets with which they work.
We attend international trade book fairs and take regular sales trips around the world, helping us to maintain relationships with our established partner publishers, as well as building new ones. This approach, when combined with years of licensing experience means we are able to find the perfect home for all our titles in every language.
Meet the team
Rights Director
Michele Young
Audio, Film and TV; Merchandising
Head of Rights
Cathryn Gregory
USA and Theatre
Head of Rights
Eve Roberts
Currently on maternity leave
Head of Rights
Joanna Lawrie
Bosnia, China (6+), Croatia, Germany (6+), Italy, Japan (6+), Macedonia, The Netherlands, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine
Rights Manager
Line Dyvesveen
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany (0-6), Iceland, Israel, Luxembourg, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Spanish speaking Latin America
Rights Manager
Alice Natali
Arab World, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Iran (6+), Asia (6+ excluding China and Japan)
Senior Rights Executive
Marianne Fournier
Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Malta, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey
Rights Assistant
Asia Mabboni
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Scotland, Wales
Rights Assistant
Anna Hilbert
Esperanto, Ireland, UK dialects, UK educational
Rights Assistant
Melissa Pesce
Audio covers
Rights Agent
Marco Rodino
Asia (0-6) and Arab World (Kingfisher)
Rights Agent
Nirmal Sandhu
Asia (0-6) and Arab World (Kingfisher)