Jensen & Dalgaard has acquired the Danish rights to the first three books in the A Dog Called Cat series by Tomi Kontio & Elina Warsta (ill.)
Wonderful news for our children’s list: Jensen & Dalgaard has secured the rights to the A Dog Called Cat series by Tomi Kontio & Elina Warsta (ill.) in a three-book deal for the first three books in the series: A Dog Called Cat, A Dog Called Cat Meets a Cat, and A Dog Called Cat Looking for a Home.
This marks the 12th foreign language area for this successful series, whose last instalment A Dog Called Cat Says Farewell won the Finlandia Junior Prize, the largest and most prestigious literary award in the country, last year.
The series of A Dog Called Cat is a touching story about finding friendship and dealing with the hardship of life with compassion. It tells the tale of a small dog, who is called Cat by her mother, because cats are independent, and the young one must learn to be independent. Soon, however, Cat that being independent can mean being very lonely. But one day things change, and then Cat is not alone anymore: a man called Weasel steps into her life, and along the series they meet new friends, including a cat called Dog, and form an unlikely but happy family bound together by genuine affection and acceptance of their mutual differences. In Finland the series is published by Teos.
Jensen & Dalgaard is an independent publisher based in Nyborg whose list includes a carefully curated selection of literary titles ranging from picture books and children’s literature all the way to fiction and classics. They are the Danish publisher of, among others, Suliko by Pirkko Saisio, Matara by Matias Riikonen, and Destruction by Iida Rauma.
Congratulations to the authors and the publisher!